Finally received the correct shims. Apparently Subaru has decided to stop offering a lot of the shim sizes for this motor. Fortunately I was able to get my hands on the 2 2.58mm shims I needed. With all the correct shims in place I was finally able to close her up and drop her in. The clutch does not have many miles on it so I reused all of the parts except the throwout bearing. I didn't like the way it sounded and we had one in stock at work so I threw a new one on.









I'm doing my best to clean each part before installation. I took the radiator fans apart and hot tanked the fans at work while also getting the shrouds as clean as I could. The fan blades had some undercoating over spray on them so I imagine cleaning them will have helped with any balancing issue there may have been. Cleaned and installed power steering pump, alternator, and starter as well.





That's about were she sits for now. Time to crawl underneath and get the exhaust parts together.

Update more as soon as I get more done.

-RONI-