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The seat bases themselves are very much asymmetrical but the seats un-bolt from the bases at the corners and the bolt pattern looks symmetrical.

I'll be obvious once you've got the seats out of the car and upside down.

I'm like 99% sure the answer is yes but I'm pretty sure the seat bases are distinct from the actual seats and those have to stay where they are. I can check my parts stash tonight.

Welcome to the board. Sounds like you know what you're doing.

8k for the top trim, under 100k, rust free, alloys, rare interior trim, and with the "rare" turbo engine.

Not that I didn't already know these vehicles were worth nothing, but they're worth nothing, lol.

I use brass PEX fittings and lengths of generic straight hose for that sort of stuff. Sometimes you have to mix and match between the crimp fittings and the expansion fittings to get the right sizes. One of my cars I even tried using PEX for the tube between the PCV and the manifold just to see how ...

FWIW these cars are pretty well wired and you almost never see problems with stock harnesses. My money is on sensor.

If the fan is coming on with the car cold your coolant temp sensor is broken or the wiring to it is broken. It's on the rear passenger side of the coolant crossover pipe under the intake. It's the one with multi pin connector on it, not the single pin one which does the gauge.

I would find the pinout for the harness connectors on top of the trans and then probe them accordingly with 12v and ground if necessary in order to verify solenoid operation. The solenoids are loud enough to hear with the engine off. I think you'll likely find that everything on the trans side is go...

It has detected an electrical fault and put itself into what's basically limp mode, or the TCU can't even reach the trans. You have three options, harness problem, connector problem or solenoids. My money would normally be on solenoids, mostly because these cars aren't known for harness problems and...

Probably shudder in the AWD clutch if automatic or coupling if manual. Nothing to worry about.

Swap tires front to back and see if that changes anything.

FWIW I wouldn't go tracking down expensive R12 when a propane-isobutane mixture costs basically nothing.

Gauges are pretty cheap. Anyone maintaining an old A/C system should have a set

Disconnect the alt or pull the belt and see if the problem persists.

The passenger side fan never seems to turn on, even when the engine is hot. So I unplugged the connector to the passenger side fan, put the relay back in, and the car still jerked. What the heck could cause that. The fan is locked up solid (more likely) or has some internal electrical fault (less l...

It's just a dumb VR sensor. There's no reason the later one can't work.

If I were you I'd crimp on spade terminals to the pigtails so you can test both polarities of both sensors just in case it matters.

Years ago, not knowing about this writeup, I bought the cheap sensor and pigtail for a '95+ and it worked fine. I don't recall there being a bunch of fuss regarding the color coding of wires because (this was years ago). IDK if the wiring seemed obvious at the time or if I just figured it was easy e...

You've posted this question several times. What is the broader project that's going on here?

Yes, PVC is fine for air intake use though it might get a little soft if being fed 300deg turbo air.

Are you talking about the tube between the MAF and the intake?

Yeah plenty of people have made those kind of things out of PVC pipe. I'll try and measure when I get home but the garage might be snowed in and you might have to wait a few days for snow to melt.

Does the indicator on the dash reflect the position of the selector?

Remove shifter trim. You might have to pull the center console to get at it. Take a look at the mechanism. It's been years so I forget exactly but if you look how it actuates there's an obvious spot to thread a zip tie around to keep the lock from engaging. You don't actually have to take the shifte...

In a suitable bolt pattern and offset for our cars, obviously.

Does the engine run if you give it a good bunch of starting fluid down the intake?

eBay has sets of four struts for $300...

If the ones in your car are in good shape you can re-use them but considering their age I wouldn't count on it. I've got like a 50% record of them being usable. Replacements are $20-25ea. You could buy them with the plan of returning them if not needed.

What you need is a set of four struts for a 98-08 Forester and a pair of two rear strut mounts (aka top hats) for a 90-94 Legacy or 93-03 Impreza. You will swap the Legacy strut mounts onto the Forester struts in order to make them bolt into the car. This is easy to do with coil spring compressors w...