so my parents have a 2005 outback that drinks oil. it ran out of oil (only briefly and oil was poured in right away when the light came on) and now has a light rod knock and had metal in the oil after the running out incident. my sister has been driving it for a while with the engine messed up so its not THAT broken. we cant find any JDM engines or used engines that are plug and play. im thinking we just throw some new bearings and rockauto pistons in it, lap the valves, wash the metal out and throw it back together with new gaskets. would it last another 10k? 50k?
i will measure all the journals and bores and oil pump. hopefully the crank is ok.