Your car should have a place in the engine bay fuse holder to fit a fuse that will force the car into front wheel drive only – if doing this you can move the car, it might mean something.
How the FWD plug/fuse works, 96 Leg OB
A friend told me that a mechanic friend told him (bad news already?) that removing the FWD fuse/plug from my OB 96 Leg would disable AWD leaving only front wheel drive and that would save on wear of tires. I have been doing this over the summer months based on his advice. After reading another thread about…
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FWD 1999 light is on
Hello Outback Lovers, I’m new here and glad I found this site! :).. I’ll start with a question…I just had the A/C serviced and my wife drove the Outback home, she noticed a FWD light on the instrument panel. I looked it up in my manual and it stands for Front Wheel…
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@Ojalal
legacy/back 1990s with 4EAT = pull a front wheel drive fuse.
behind that simple 4EAT was: plug a fuse.
I’ve also seen subarus come up for auction with 2 wheels pulled down to damage the AWD. (the flat bed had a honda in the bed and a skinny woodsman 2 up/2 down in the back)
when they are on a fork, they usually get the forks too long and hold the car on them front / rear (back to front) …this can abuse some end links on a subaru.
but not on the side as it only hurts the body and everything below.
(saw a rear wheel drive pickup that had a nick on the driveshaft from being lifted by monkeys in a junk yard on the side, despite it being great they were going to resell it,…the teenager who bought it was burned to the curb and tore it in half, … the owner of the junk yard replaced it.).
edit: can you stick the 4 wheeler up and see what spins? by hand or under power?
can you open the trans handle and manually force it into neutral with a screwdriver? = this reveals what is unable to rotate. (frozen brakes, broken axles / drive axles)
