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    Senior Member Dan B.'s Avatar
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    Any Subaru guru's in here?? Trans issues.

    On Thursday night my wife's 2001 Outback wagon puked (4 cyl, auto). The transmission has a nasty sound coming from it that sounds like a blown ring gear in a RWD car....an repeatable "bang" as if the pinion would ride the ring gear then skip a few teeth and catch again. A few days before it happened she told me of a "burning" smell. I checked it out and nothing appeared obviously bad. Then right before it happened (minutes via phone) she complained about it not shifting into 4th gear. I put it on the rack, had her put the car in gear........bang........bang.......bang.....coming directly from the transmission. I held each wheel individually to see if I could isolate it to a certain axle.......still does it.

    I have a short video of it that records the sound very well but I can't post it.

    I've been searching around online for any tranny problems that someone would describe sounds like my issue but nothing is coming up.

    The car has 210K miles on it. Found a trans at Stoystown Auto for $850 but I'm not thinking I want to drop that kind of coin on this car.

    Any ideas?
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    Ahh fuque
    1985 Ranger--2WD, basic bolt-ons and tires, 11.92 @ 111mph.

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    The parts and pieces inside are much cheaper...with noises like that the problem would have to be obvious once u opened up the trans.
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    Thanks to badstanglx for finding me a trans for half of what Stoystown wanted. Dropped the old one this afternoon and picking up a used one this week. Should have it back together by the weekend.
    Quote Originally Posted by John4cam View Post
    Ahh fuque
    1985 Ranger--2WD, basic bolt-ons and tires, 11.92 @ 111mph.

    1986 Ranger--2WD, 5.0/T5/8.8.

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    Sounds like what happened to my Avenger Dan. My transmission ended up exploding and the spider gears were completely fried. When I put it in neutral to push it out of the way in the driveway, it would start to lock up and you could hear the banging. The gears/lines probably are completely shredded, similar to what happened to mine. Good luck with the new transmission. At least you got 210k out of it!


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    Yah....at the point it's a game to see how long it will go! The motor runs like a dream. The under carriage is as clean as a whistle. We quickly repaired the rust spots that you see on all the cars of this age. The interior is clean. From looking at CL and some other places it is very common to see these cars w/ 250+K miles on them.
    Quote Originally Posted by John4cam View Post
    Ahh fuque
    1985 Ranger--2WD, basic bolt-ons and tires, 11.92 @ 111mph.

    1986 Ranger--2WD, 5.0/T5/8.8.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan B. View Post
    Thanks to badstanglx for finding me a trans for half of what Stoystown wanted. Dropped the old one this afternoon and picking up a used one this week. Should have it back together by the weekend.
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    Good luck with the subie they aren't bad to work on.

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    The swap is a success. Everything is done and running fine. While I had it in the garage I also did all the other filters and fluids. Hopefully it's good for another 200K! ;)

    I have under $500 in the tranny and starter (yes...starter...don't ask) and another $100 in filters and fluids. So for around $600 it's back on the road and I avoided car payments once again!
    Last edited by Dan B.; 02-26-2014 at 11:02 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by John4cam View Post
    Ahh fuque
    1985 Ranger--2WD, basic bolt-ons and tires, 11.92 @ 111mph.

    1986 Ranger--2WD, 5.0/T5/8.8.

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    Nice work! Good thing you finished up before the temps take another freakin dive!
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    Senior Member Dan B.'s Avatar
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    Cold?? Hell it was a balmy 8 here today!! Could be 15 below with wind chill tonight. Garage was 50 degrees inside.....did all the subbie work wearing a thong.
    Quote Originally Posted by John4cam View Post
    Ahh fuque
    1985 Ranger--2WD, basic bolt-ons and tires, 11.92 @ 111mph.

    1986 Ranger--2WD, 5.0/T5/8.8.

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    2014 GT Premium - Sterling Gray Metallic - MT82 - Track Pack - Glass Roof - Recaro seats - Spoiler delete
    12.76 @ 114.04 bone stock. Koni yellow coil-overs, BMR watts, LCA and LCA relo brackets, Borla S-type axle back.

    1966 Coupe - 331 stroker - Bullet custom roller cam - cam and motor installed and dyno tuned by Rodeheavers Hot Rod - Astro A5 - McLeod RXT - 486 to the wheels - more fun than my little tires can handle

    1966 Oldsmobile Toronado - currently NOT on jackstands

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