Hi guys. I've been on here a while now an d ive seen some great threads and some awesome cars. Anyway ive decided to do a thread for my project car. As mentioned above its a 1998 Subaru Legacy B4 rev A. I bought it back in February for half nothing. The previous owner was only the second owner in Ireland and had owned it for a number of years. To the best of my knowledge it's on its second engine. He was selling it as the secondary turbo had decided to eat itself and he didn't have the money to get it back on the road. The main deal breaker for me was the unfortunate failure of the big end of my buddies b4 a few weeks previous to me looking at this legacy.
Once it was in my shed I began stripping it down and removing the turbo that was supposed to be the problem. I won't pretend to have known a lot about these engines and still don't but this is a learning curve for me as well as something to do on the weekends. Off came the intercooler and down pipes. This was when things got a bit strange. It seemed that whoever had installed the engine was doing so on a budget or with very little regard to anyone ever working on this engine in the future. Every nut and bolt seemed to be rounded or all different shapes and sizes leading to a lot of cursing and shouting and throwing of tools on my part.
I was making sure to carefully document using pictures of all the parts I was removing. I ended up have a folder with 50 or 60 photos on my phone but I never backed it up and lucky for me my missus shut my phone in the boot of my Forester so there goes all my photos.
Seeing as I had two turbos that were in very good condition I removed both turbos. It turns out that the secondary turbo that the previous owner had said was blown was full of oil so I'm assuming the seals had gone in this one. The primary turbo however (the good one or so the owner told me) was in very bad condition. The nut that was supposed to be sitting on the end of the shaft had come of and got sacked into the vanes of the turbo (see picture below)
The turbo inlet pipe was also in terrible shape also. Whoever changed the engine over previously had used some sort of adhesive tape to attach the inlet pipe to the turbo itself.
Once it was in my shed I began stripping it down and removing the turbo that was supposed to be the problem. I won't pretend to have known a lot about these engines and still don't but this is a learning curve for me as well as something to do on the weekends. Off came the intercooler and down pipes. This was when things got a bit strange. It seemed that whoever had installed the engine was doing so on a budget or with very little regard to anyone ever working on this engine in the future. Every nut and bolt seemed to be rounded or all different shapes and sizes leading to a lot of cursing and shouting and throwing of tools on my part.
I was making sure to carefully document using pictures of all the parts I was removing. I ended up have a folder with 50 or 60 photos on my phone but I never backed it up and lucky for me my missus shut my phone in the boot of my Forester so there goes all my photos.
Seeing as I had two turbos that were in very good condition I removed both turbos. It turns out that the secondary turbo that the previous owner had said was blown was full of oil so I'm assuming the seals had gone in this one. The primary turbo however (the good one or so the owner told me) was in very bad condition. The nut that was supposed to be sitting on the end of the shaft had come of and got sacked into the vanes of the turbo (see picture below)
The turbo inlet pipe was also in terrible shape also. Whoever changed the engine over previously had used some sort of adhesive tape to attach the inlet pipe to the turbo itself.
