Hi all well i am one of the few who had thier center diffrential blowup on my 05 legacy gt. And well me being me i'm not just going to put it back together with out making it better!
Put my engineering know how to fix this problem.
My solution is replacing the stock cage needle bearings with bronze of bronze aluminum busings.
How to .
1Well you do not need to remouve the transmission.
2 remove exaust system, exaust heat shield, rear drive shaft, intercooler and the support under the intercooler.
3 remove the transmission brace
4 remove the rubber transmission mount then using 10 mm the speed sensor on the tail housing and finally 12mm take out all the bolts for the tranny tail housing.
5 the housing is still fairly tight because the dowel pins that are used for locating the talhousing, so use plastic hammer or hammer and block of wood and start banging on it from side to side and top and bottem.
6when you remove it care full not to lose any parts. a 3" diameter shim wil probably fall out. it goes on the bearing for the front drive shaft. also there will be clutches for the center diffrential that will be loose. take thes all and put them in to a metal dish.
7 the whole diffrential assembly will now pop out using a pry bar and it will come out with a long shaft.
well its supper time i will continue this later.
