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Old 06-04-2010, 03:32 PM   #14
currystyle
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Northern KY
Vehicle:
96 Legacy GT Wagon
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Found the smoke was white. Started the car last night in the garage and found the whining noise even occurs at idle without moving so is most likely power steering or pulley related. It has been my experience working in the auto industry that if you just do a "simple" drain and fill on an auto trans at anything over 100k miles with one never being performed before it usually does more harm than good. I may, however, take it into work and do a power flush on it so it will clean out the torque converter, et al. Does anyone know what kind of trans fluid these things take?

Also why would disabling the AWD make things simpler? The only thing I know for sure it would do is alleviate the entire reason I traded my Camry wagon for a Subaru!

Edit: Also found out today some previous owner had put stop leak in the engine. We all know what mechanic in a bottle does to motors! Could explain the metallic in my coolant and the lack of heat.
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Last edited by currystyle; 06-04-2010 at 03:48 PM.
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