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stewdogg

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    Madison, Wi
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    2010 LGT 2.5 stage ~3 - 2011 Legacy 2.5
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    Fleet Manager/Mechanic

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  1. Is there a possibility the trunk light is staying on somehow? Maybe pull the bulb and see how the next 4 months go...? I hope it's the trunk light over a parasitic drain, those suck to find normally and worse when they're a random issue.
  2. Sucks you're having an issue with the car! What are the fault codes? I wish you were in the states, I would love that car for scrap price.
  3. Yes, the picture of the filter is correct. The filter you're talking about is the pick up filter for the fuel pump that every fuel pump has. The one I listed is a separate filter that is unique to this Subaru. Where is the filter on the driver's side that you're talking about located?
  4. Might as well put a new fuel filter in while you're in there... https://parts.wildesubaru.com/p/Subaru_2010_Legacy-25L-TURBO-6MT-4WD-GT-Limited-Sedan/Fuel-Filter-Filter-Fuel-Pump/49249675/42072AJ070.html
  5. I'm using the rear O2 sensor with a catted J pipe. I have the wideband wired to the gauge in the car and sent video to the tuner for my tune. That would be the easiest way to get the wideband info for the tuner and return the car to stock when you're done with the tune. Dave @ Cryo said the O2 sensors in our cars aren't sensitive enough to log the changes. I guess the newer 15+WRX's already have the upgraded O2 sensor in place, but we need to upgrade ours in the 5th gen LGT's.
  6. Maybe the throttle body is due for a cleaning...? My RPM has a dip sometimes when it drops to idle. I have a throttle body gasket on the way and it will be pulling the throttle body for a good ole cleaning this upcoming week.
  7. Sounds like a belt chirp to me. Either a worn out belt tensioner or some chirpy bearings in a pulley in the drive belt system. Unless I'm not hearing it correctly from the video.
  8. What headlights did you end up going with? When do the pics get posted?
  9. Just for poops and laughter, what is the voltage of the battery?
  10. You could always try and degrease the area and see if it gives you a better idea of where the leak is starting from. If you are pulling the engine anyway, just pick up a rear main, they are not very expensive and easy to remove/install.
  11. I finally got the car back together after replacing the passenger side headgasket that was leaking at the top where the oil crossover feed is. I drove it all last summer with the oil leak and the boost eventually sent some coolant into the oil at the end of the summer and the beast was done for the year. I got it back together last week, I had the frickin passenger side exhaust cam off one tooth and got the P0017 code. Tore back into it and got it all cinched up this weekend. Now it's running like a champ again and I hope just to enjoy it for a while before having to do anymore work to it... maybe I can go a whole year without tearing into the engine for repairs. If I'm just tearing into it to add fast or fun bits, that fine. Those are just bad financial decisions and not bad luck. I burned off the winter storage tank of ethanol free gas last night and got the first full tank of e85 for the year. It goes from a mildly fun boost to a real ripper with the e85. As long as I'm hitting the boost the smile stays on my face. I'm gonna get it all cleaned up and take some good pics of the engine bay for my build thread and explain what I have going on with it. I have a little vacation coming up in a week and will have to get to it after that. Nice to see the new wave of owners showing up here as well.
  12. Without a pic, have you lubed the latch (under the hood) with some decent lube that's not WD-40? It's just that the WD-40 won't last very long as it's used to displace water and leave a light lube in place.
  13. I had some chewed through wires on my A/C compressor wiring a couple years ago. That led to me finding out I had an infestation in my detached garage. I spent the summer trying to get rid of them. I tired a bunch of stuff, but the only thing that worked was to clean everything, close up all the ways a mouse/mole could get into the garage and take any possibility of food or shelter away. Turns out the rodents had created a few ways into the garage. I stuffed some steel wool in the holes and added some spray foam along with it. I figure they started in the pile of wood I had behind the garage. Taking the wood away and fortifying the holes with steel wool/foam seems to have gotten rid of them for the last few years. Non of the smelly things seem to last long enough to be effective on their own. The sprays and even the cheaper option of fabric softeners only last day or two. You really need to find the source of the little critters.
  14. You better watch out or all the sudden one day your going to be living in a 5th gen GT salvage yard. I imagine you have to have the record for having the most 5th gen GT's so far...? I know you sold #2 already, but still nice work on keeping the Gen alive. I'll be pulling the passenger side head out of mine tomorrow... not looking forward to all the fun.
  15. In addition to the above you could use a mechanics stethoscope or long screwdriver to pinpoint where the sound is the loudest in the engine. Go to where you hear the noise the loudest in the engine bay and stick the tip of your scope or screwdriver on the metal of the block and heads and notice where the sound is the loudest. How are you hearing the knock? Is it always there or only under load or a specific RPM range? I lost a wrist pin in mine. It started with a small knock on start up and got worse from there. I nursed it till it just stopped running and then dove in deep with the rebuild.
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