any tips on clutch replacement for 95 Legacy 2.2 liter?

[Dave_Mountain_Man]

Well my neighbor borrowed my Legacy with a worn out clutch and trashed it. I thought I could maybe get another 5,000 or so miles out of it, but he killed it. He was on a very steep but short hill (a driveway about 100 feet long) in 2nd and the car stalled. Instead of starting the car and just coasting backwards in neutral to the bottom and trying again in first, he started it on the hill.

Someone in the car said a lot of smoke was coming out of the engine compartment.

I asked him if my car was OK and he said, "What do I care?" I guess I should thank the old bastard for not just coasting downhill backward with the engine on and the transmission engaged. What an asshole.

I'm going to a new mechanic (not a subaru specialist) on this one. My current shop charges $110 an hour and the business manager is an angry hostile man so I think for a car that is worth $3000 on a good day $110 an hour is too much.

The new guy has done quite a bit of work on my friend's 2000? Outback including replacing the manual transmission.

QUESTIONS:
Is there anything special about the clutch replacement on a 95 2.2?
Is it just a standard job?
How many hours should it take a good mechanic (but not subaru specialist) to do?
Should I take a big dump on my neighbor's front door step?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

David

[Airgne]

if you have a jack, 4 stands, basic tools(sockets, ratchet, wrenchs), some mechaic ability you could do it in a day. as for a shop if they have all the tools a good shop would have then maybe 4hrs. i would get a standard clutch unless you are going to upgrade your motor. your neighbor on the other hand, if it were me i would wait tell it is hot and put baloney on the car he likes the most in verous spots. in doing this it will eat at the clearcoat on the paint, and bring birds to take shits all over it. when he ask tell him "What do i care?"

[sexystover]

a clutch job is not that hard, i just did one, so i know, but be prepared to shell out another 135 bucks for a trans snout repair kit if your trans snout is worn down

[Dave_Mountain_Man]

thanks, gentlemen. Forgive my ignorance, but what is a transmission snout?

The neighbor was and still is actually a friend. He's a cantankerous old bastard and not at least saying, "I had some problem on the hill. I'm sorry." was bullshit. I think he is worried I am going to ask him for money which I'm not. Hey, 206K on a clutch means I am either doing something right or very lucky.

I'm just too busy to take this one on and it's my primary car. On a good day, it would take me two good days.

Have a good one.

David

p.s. We already have a bird-crap-on-car problem here in N. California. brake fluid does similar things on the paint as does baloney... Makes me think perhaps we shouldn't be eating baloney...

[Airgne]

read up on this and you will understand the snout thing.

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