I'm happy to see this outback is being saved. I also have a silver 05 XT 5eat and you've been inspiring me to keep the car at its best. I'm having the same issue with the valve body and I'm currently searching for one with low miles and hoping I can get it fairly cheap. Ipt performance (out of New Jersey I believe) up-grade these valve bodies for around $800. They have a few videos here on TH-cam. Including one on safely shipping them with the fragile solenoids, bummer the one from your friend got damaged. Edit: for anyone shipping valve bodies th-cam.com/video/XiH3qP94xlA/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! I definitely have spent more than I wish I have on keeping this car alive but honestly is has grown to be quite sentimental which might sound dumb. It also has everything I want and it's not as common of a car where I live so it stands out which I enjoy. And yea, the valve body thing is kind of a nightmare. I did watch the lpt video showing how to remove the valve body which is how I got it out at the junkyard! I take the mistakes and fails as learning points and lessons! Things could be better but could also certainly be worse!
I want to get the oem navigation screen for my outback, keep it all original
I'm happy to see this outback is being saved. I also have a silver 05 XT 5eat and you've been inspiring me to keep the car at its best.
I'm having the same issue with the valve body and I'm currently searching for one with low miles and hoping I can get it fairly cheap.
Ipt performance (out of New Jersey I believe) up-grade these valve bodies for around $800.
They have a few videos here on TH-cam. Including one on safely shipping them with the fragile solenoids, bummer the one from your friend got damaged.
Edit: for anyone shipping valve bodies
th-cam.com/video/XiH3qP94xlA/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! I definitely have spent more than I wish I have on keeping this car alive but honestly is has grown to be quite sentimental which might sound dumb. It also has everything I want and it's not as common of a car where I live so it stands out which I enjoy.
And yea, the valve body thing is kind of a nightmare. I did watch the lpt video showing how to remove the valve body which is how I got it out at the junkyard! I take the mistakes and fails as learning points and lessons! Things could be better but could also certainly be worse!
Yeah that was a good score