tom_gr7

The track lane outside my parents.... Think I need to move back there... lol, Had to laugh when mum told me the neighbour couldn't even get his discovery up there.

We should organise a N/E meet. Anybody else up for this?

I try and be calm and collected when I see bad drivers. But recently i've seen some right dicks speeding on the country roads on my morning jaunts across County Durham In bad winter conditions. The usual offenders tend to be driving audi's/bmw's/vecta's/insignia's/passat's oh and the occasional muppet in one of those "pretendy 4x4" hybrid suv things. lol You can !Removed! bet your bottom dollar they probably have worn summer tyres on too. Need to invest in a dashcam.

Just booked my legacy into GMB Subaru in Durham for the Brake Line Recall. Should have had in it a while ago really.

him.baiting youbis borderline entrapment lol. Probably had little evidence and would have got thrown out of court if he tried to ticket yiu

Coming down nice and heavy now! :) Wanted to go for a drive but was veto'd by the missus, seems shes got a job with the fun police...

no, i tend to start in neutral. Should I try pushing the clutch in?

yeah mate, chuffed tbh. Just hoping the screeching settles down in a few days.

yay Its snowing! I live on the coast so anything is a bonus lol. How is it over there david?

So, I'll try and do a bit of a write up. All was going well on Monday morning. Car passed the MOT without any problem, just a few advisories. Drop links and bushes i think. Martin and Dave cracked on taking the engine apart and the gear box out etc etc. However, it appeared that the bearing provided was not the correct bearing for the fork. So Martin advised that I give the seller a bell. After a bit of dicking about trying to find a contact number for him, I called him and he told me he had no idea if it would fit a 04 onwards legacy. (The ebay ad said otherwise) Martin n the seller had a bit of a chat and the seller agreed that i could return it to him for a refund, as martin informed him that he'd not fitted it. The old DMF/Clutch looked like the original parts that were fitted from being built. So it was either, return the smf/clutch and hope for a refund or pay for a DMF+ labour etc etc. Martin ordered a replacement bearing for my DMF clutch/flywheel to try with the SMF. After a bit of investigation this bearing seemed to fit the smf/clutch. It was a little bit thinner but it fitted ok. So martin and Dave cracked on and fitted it. Luckily it worked a treat and I now have a SMF. :) Top service from Martin and Dave btw, don't think they stopped all day! :) I do notice that the SMF doesnt like being in a high gear at low speeds. I Also notice that I now have a very brief screeching noise when I start the engine. So any ideas would be appreciated. Interestingly, I noticed that the seller had changed his ebay add. If you click on the original link in my first post you should be able to find the description. I do not know when he updated this, It's majorly different to the add I read when I ordered, otherwise I wouldnt have bought it. This is the latest add - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Dual-to-Single-Mass-Flywheel-and-Clutch-Kit-Legacy-Impreza-Forester-/191475628987?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2c94d63bbb He's added. "MY04 --> usage: If replacing the Valeo dual mass flywheel and clutch in an MY04 or later model, check whether your clutch release bearing looks like one of the ones shown in the photos, and is held on to the clutch release fork with two wire clips. If so, this kit will fit. If your release bearing does not look like either of the ones shown in the photos, the flywheel, clutch disc and clutch pressure plate will fit your engine. However the clutch release bearing from this kit will not fit your clutch release fork. See 'Clutch Release bearing info' below. Clutch release bearing info – there are three types of Subaru clutch release bearings used on the relevant ‘push to release’ clutches. This kit includes the type shown in the photo as ‘A’, which was used on all versions with a single mass flywheel. Models with dual mass flywheels up to MY03 have the release bearing type shown as ‘B’, which is thinner. When fitting this kit to your MY00 - MY03 model which had a dual mass flywheel, you need to replace bearing 'B' with bearing 'A' (from this kit). It fits to your existing clutch fork using your existing clips. Some later models from MY04 --> may have a release bearing which looks nothing like either of the ones shown above and does not use clips to attach it to the clutch release fork. It may be possible to convert these later gearboxes to use the earlier type of clutch release bearing by swapping the clutch release fork (and possibly the ball it pivots on) for the earlier design. Alternatively it may be possible to replace the release bearing in this kit with a new one the same as the one you removed (not shown above). However, I have no experience with the gearboxes and clutch release forks used in MY04 --> Subaru's so cannot investigate this. Therefore do not purchase this kit for MY04 --> applications if the release bearing you are replacing does not look like the ones shown above, unless you don't mind experimenting with earlier clutch release parts (sorry I cannot help you with this - if you have an MY04 --> model, you know more about them than I do)."

!Removed! wankers, Once you find them contact the police afterwards for driving off after an incident and all that stuff.

Lol just averaged 43.2mpg over 130 miles!

**** just turned the engine over and got an almighty screech. Oh dear.. Edit, was informed tht the screech was just the starter motor gripping onto the new clutch plate.

I bought pagid disks n pads of ecp a while back, will get you the links when i can get to a pc.

Whilst it would probably be a good laugh, i think it would asking for trouble.

Lol stants, clutch conversion is a bit of a long story.... it fitted but it came with the wrong bearing (for mk4 legacy) will post the full story whn i can get on my pc.

Mot passed, just a few advisories.. needs new d bushes n new rear droplinks.

Long story short... the conversion kit fitted, but the bearing provided was the wrong bearing, im on my phone atm, si will update fully in the next few days. But top notch service from martin and dave.

Last year tickets were a tenner on the day. - all goes to charity though. edit, Gambit, is this posted on the Uklegacy forum? for a double stand?

What engines do the justy's use? are they flat fours too? I wouldn't mind going for one, would save me a fortune in petrol to and back from work.

was ace :) Pub food was nice too!

Just pressure washed my legacy. All ready for martin tomoz.

Ooohhh looks like this pub does nice food! :)

Yea im coming! Will get there about 11.

Hi mark. I have a 2006 legacy NA 2.0R. I had a similar issue with mine a while back. I had martin from sheffield subaru service take it for an update, i think he had another company do a "pack" file update and that completely solved the issue.