Somehow I lost the original motor mount bolts, so I had to go to the dealer for them. ?But even there they were about 80 cents each. ?Tighten the plates to the mounts at 31 ft lbs.

I cleaned and reused the mounting plates. ?I got the motor mounts at O’reilly Auto Parts for about $75 for the pair. ?OEM mounts are about $75 each! ?I generally like to stick with OEM when I can afford it, but motor mounts?? ?I went for the cheaper option.

I need those too. Dealer ? Or rock auto ? Or ??

So I cleaned up the plates, bought new motor mounts, and installed them yesterday.

This is what the motor mounts looked like. ?Great.

I agree with you, John. ?Let’s do this. ?Why not make it clean and fun? ?It won’t run any better but it’s a point of pride in my work. ?

Of course, before I installed the intake manifold I had to install the RMW coolant crossover pipe. ?When I took the old one off one of the bolts twisted off and I had to use an easy-out and a tap to clean it up. ?However, when I went to install the crossover manifold the bolt stripped out at 7 ft lbs. ?So I had to get a helicoil kit and drill, tap, and install. ?I got it done and I can only hope it holds.

Photo ? ?I broke the plastic bits that hold that mess so I had to get a couple from the wrecker. Haven’t cleaned mine up yet but yup they are gross. I have to rip the bundle apart anyway to move the temp sensor for the reverse coolant mani from RMW. They have a new new one now that you don’t need to do this for but I bought mine 2 years ago?

Love the chrome. I did my intake and bits and pieces including fuel rails and hard vacuum lines with steel-it grey paint. The stuff is amazing and addictive. Yours looks nice and clean. I don’t understand when people spend a pile of money and skip spending elbow grease in cleaning up the old motor.?

Then I got into that tangle of wires that live under the intake manifold. ?What a mess. ?They were dirty and grimy and sticky, etc. ?So I cleaned them and re-wrapped them and finally got them reinstalled. ?

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Having gained some confidence with the powder coating, I cleaned and sandblasted the fuel injector rails and guards. ?I coated the rails yellow and one guard chrome and one in bright yellow. ?

So I received a powder coating kit (Eastwood) as a gift. My wife let me have our old toaster oven to use. Powder coating is incredibly easy. You clean or sandblast the parts to be coated, hook up the machine, spray on the coating, and put it in the oven at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. I decided to powder coat my valve covers. Not a pro job but they turned out pretty good.

Subaru has used three oil separator plates over the years. First was plastic and I’ve seen pics of them brittle or even melted. Then they used aluminum (which was on mine) but I’ve not seen or heard of issues with them, but the latest offering from Subaru is steel. So I went for it. Not sure if there’s any advantage though.?

My intake manifold was a mess. Filthy dirty. So I used carb cleaner (lots of it) and cleaned it thoroughly. Then I sand blasted it. Then painted it. Then I removed and cleaned the throttle body.

My engine came from an auto Subie but I’m putting it in a MT Vanagon so I had to add the piece above the crank pulley to make sure the timing belt would not skip a tooth or two if the engine should jump backward as when parked on a hill and roll back …

Here is a photo of the new oil pump, water pump, timing pulleys, and timing belt.

The seal shown in the image was a Felpro seal. It was difficult to install so I pulled it out and bought one at the Subaru dealer. It went right in.?

There were literally some sleepless nights when I questioned whether something was installed correctly. I replaced the new cam seals because I thought I had inserted them too deeply. I took the oil pump back off because I was concerned that the little o-ring slipped out of place while I was installing the pump (it was fine), and I took the timing belt off numerous times because lining up the timing marks was not as straightforward as I thought it should have been. And that Felpro rear main seal caused me to lose some sleep.?