rattling in the transmission at certain rpm's

Maybe just worn plastic/rubber bushings? In addition to OEM, Kartoy and others offer urethane/high performance bushing after-market.

hope it's nothing internal

carl

Yeah, that's what I'm hoping too. Would these bushings be visible and serviceable from inside the car, rather than underneath it?

Yousuf Khan

I've never done it. I do recall reading that people have trouble with it, but it seemed possible. Try digging around at both ultimatesubaru.org and nasioccom . I'd bet you could find some pictures or a step-by-step.

Probably an email to kartboy would tell you too. Who knows, they may have an online installation guide or something...wait....

OK - dig around here at scoobymods;

On most Japanese cars, you have to remove the lower half of the console/radio box, and the console where the shifter is, and they should be accesible from there.

Not all Japanese cars are the same though. I had a 1972 Corona that you had to do all that and THEN get under the car to position them.

Ah, the classic Subaru shifter rattle. The problem is the rubber bushings in the linkages between the shifter and the back of the transmission have slightly shrunk with age and now the individual bits don't quite fit together right.

When it first showed up on my 95 about 4 years ago it was the little tension spring that had finally rusted out. This was 30 cent part and was easy to replace by just crawling under the car - once I knew where it was suppose to go.

Now even with the spring, my shifter rattles all the time.

Ideally to fix it you need to remove the exhaust pipe - unless you have really slender hands.

I haven't bothered to change the bushings - the sound of the rattling heat shield drowns it out :-)

ROFL! :-)

Yousuf Khan