BG5 Legacy Auto removal problems

[Guest]

Hey guys,

I'm half way through a manual conversion on my BG5 1998.

I've come to pull the gearbox out and realised the subframe and steering rack are in the way of the rubber bung I need to get through to undo the torque converter.

Does anyone know a cheeky way to get the torque converter out? Or do I have to pull this frame out.

Any help is appreciated

Cheers

[Guest keltik]

On the top of the motor theres a rubber bung covering an inspection hatch, its just under the back runners of the intake - you undo the TC bolts from there

[Guest boostcut]

im surprised your taking the tc bolts out. most people around here have pulled their auto out and left the tc hanging on the flex plate, then undo it later.

im not saying its a good idea, but probably not bad if your not going to use it again.

[Guest]

Awesome, found what I needed, didn't realise it was the TMIC mount I had to take out but we're all go now.

I was planning on just pulling the trans out and worrying about the torque converter later but have been convinced to do it this way.

Thanks for your help guys

[ReubenH]

I'm curious at how you're going to go about the ECU side of things. 96-98 Auto Legacy's are unique in the subaru world, as they have the TCU intergrated into the ECU, and use a 1-Plug loom to sweeten the deal (so you can't change them without a massive re-pinning f*** of a job).

Are you just going to ignore that beast and see how it runs on the auto ECU? Again, I'm curious to see how it pans out.