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So my car is running good (more on this later)

Last Wednesday I got a new job in Nashville (I'm in Jackson, so 120 miles to the east)
so I've got one week left exactly on this job and I'm out of here.

Today I got approved to move into an apartment, gated controlled access community, tomorrow I get the paperwork on that back and I'm moving in on the 25th
I start my job on the 27th

yesterday I noticed an intermittent squeak-squeak-squeak noise coming from the subaru

I noticed it again today, got to looking under the hood with the car running, it's my power steering pump. I check the belt, it's tight, almost too tight.

looks like I put it on too tight in a fit of absent-mindedness, and now I've trashed a bearing on the pump.

I hit it with some lithium grease, redid the belt to the proper tension, the squeak has stopped, but when turning the pump by hand, it feels/sounds like a bad bearing, if you've ever noticed one.

no end play, maybe it'll last till the 1st and I can rebuild the pump.

Yay, subaru, yay.

Good to say though the EJ22T has done me very fine, the only other problem is I've got to replace that pressure sensor on the Ac drier so my air actually works like it should.

That's awesome about the job man!!

Good luck with the move!

The pump isn't going to make it as far as I thought it would.

She'll be done in by the end of the week.

W3rd. New jobs rule!

Best of luck to ya man.

pump replaced, whew, new pump is nice and quiet but sounds something like the old one when you throttle up (slightly like that cavitation noise just on throttle)

pulley rotates alot smoother, that's for sure. Use of Dexron 3 is required because the inside of the pump has metal vanes that ride against the housing - regular power steering fluid is just like brake fluid and lacks significant lubrication properties. Dexron 3 is ATF fluid and functions as a lubricant too.

dirty fluid may have been the downfall of my old pump, so I need to flush the fluid as soon as possible. The fluid in the resivor is fresh though, so there shouldn't be a problem in the short term.

all my shit is packed, most of it anyway, i need to go and buy some more boxes next monday.