

Hell my XT6 AWD manual has over 350K miles on the original tranny and I beat the hell out of that car. What the freak! I have never had a SUBARU manual transmission go bad ONCE let alone twice. The bearing race was torn apart, bearings AGAIN got into the gears and busted a bunch of teeth. When I opened the hood, I noticed that coolant had. Yesterday it overheated to the point where smoke was coming from the engine. Ive had the radiator flushed and the thermostat replaced recently, but neither helped. I just took apart the second tranny and it ALSO had the same freaking center diff bearing failed. My 1999 Subaru Forester has been overheating for quite some time, and the heater doesnt usually work. The bearing races failed, spiting out the bearings which ate the gears. I checked, I didn't mismatch the finals.I thought that might have been the reason for the second failure as that replacement tranny was out of an Outback and I had a cheap Outback tranny available again.Ĩ months ago I ripped the original tranny out, took it apart and found it had a (2) bad bearings in the center diff. This is the reason I was asking about the 4.111. So I threw the Forester on my lift and did the swap real quick. There is/was a Subaru transmission chart on the 'Net w/that info.5th on the Outback is higher RPM a given speed, IIRC.Ĭool, slaved a 5SP tranny home, got a 125,000 mile 2000 Outback's 5SP 4.111, as is my rear diff. In '99 Subaru went to the different bellhousing w/more bolt holes (w/the Phase 2 block), but the older trans will still bolt up just fine.īTW, I 'think' the 5th gear ratio on the Legacy OUTBACK model is different than the Forester. Newer models will work, too, but not sure on what years. And you can use a transmission from a '96 - 1999, as long is it's from an Outback/GT/LSi that had the 2.5 (the 2.2 used a 3.90, I believe). I've noticed that many Trans ID's don't match between models, but the transmissions ARE interchangeable. Go back to Manual Transmission and choose the Trans Assembly category and under the Supplement heading you'll get the Trans ID which should match what is on your trans. Yes, they are both 4.11.Ĭhoose your model>Year>Engine (choices can be a bit confusing)>etc and under the TRAIN heading look for "Gear set-hypoid", which shows the FD ratio. As mentioned in other posts, is a great resource for this info.
