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I have a steady stall on abrupt stops too, which I 100% attribute to the CVT. 120k mi

Well yes the torque converter is part of the transmission. I guess in my mind I view the torque converter as a separate part, so that's why I say the CVT itself is fine.

2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5i Limited

Do most of my own maintenance.

Car was great until I recently hit 105k miles and now I'm having nothing but problems. Seems like everything is going at the same time. Steady stall on abrupt stops which I'm attributing to the torque converter. On top of that looks like I'm going to have to replace the head gasket. Was very surprised it would be bad at 105k, thought I would get close to 150k before that. If I want to dump a bunch of money into it I guess now is the time to do it since I'll be taking the engine out to replace the gaskets. Might as well do the water pump, replace belts, hoses, maybe radiator, spark plugs, and on top of that fix the torque converter. Trying to decide if I should just fix the heads and trade it in or fix everything and drive it for another 50k. That being said no CVT issues at all. Seems like that's the one thing that was full proof on this car. Think Subaru might have extended the warranty to 100k too after these torque converter problems, unfortunately I was past that.