The tube is inside the oil pan. To replace it, the oil pan has to come off etc, which can be a pain when laying on your back without taking the motor out. Book time on the repair is 2 hours (total) but that's assuming you have all the tools etc. You also have to use Fuji bond (recommended, same thing Subaru uses to glue the engine case halves together) to glue the oil pan back in place, which can get messy. Once you're in there, you unbolt the old, and bolt in the new. I struggled with mine, and it took me maybe 3 hours.

Here's the link to the "history" on the pickup tube issues:
Oil Pickup Story - Subaru Oil Pickup Failure

Subaru also put out a technical service bulletin regarding the pickup tubes for 06-07. Search the forums, it's pretty common.

 

The killer B is like 200$ .. Oem is 30 tops...

 

Yes, but purchasing another OEM will cause the same issues again over time... IMO, better to do it once, and never have to do it again. The Killer B is beefy. Check out the pics on their website. No way that thing will crack and cause potential catastrophic failure...

Just sayin, cost me $300 to replace my turbo alone (good buddy deal...), and I was lucky that I caught it fast enough to avoid total engine failure.
--My .02

 

well im taking the bus to work tomorrow.. the car will not get driven till Saturday when i take off the oil pan. I hope its all good since i caught it early enough. My light came on in santa cruz 14 miles from my house. Sad that my car will just sit there..sucke cause ima have to sell my fmic and use the money towards the car and not your rims ;(

 

I'm assuming the pickup tube problem is just for STi's?

 

WEEKEND UPDATE

Pre-Meet at the Lowes In Gilroy at 10am, we will be leaving no later than 10:45am to be at the meeting point on time!

Summary

Next meet will be piggy backing the beach BBQ meet(info here Beach meat and BBQ!)

Here is the details for the lazy

Beach meat and BBQ!
so i spoke to matt (04caliwrx) and we decided to basically hold this event based on the past bbq's and events he had thrown.

this meet will be heald on:
SUNDAY MAY 27TH

we will be meeting at:
505 skyway
San Carlos Ca 94070

we will then do a caravan drive to the beach!

Meet time will be:
12:00 PM SHARP!

the meet location is a large parking lot infront of the beach where we will be allowd to bbq, or picnic, or whatever the hell you guys want to do! this will hopefully be a fun drive and a great hang out day. if all goes well, we will host more events in the future. lets get this meet going! i planned it a month ahead so that should give everyone enough time in advance to request the day off! i will also be bringing a few friends (none subaru owners) to come hang out and we will probably bring our cameras so hopefully we can get some nice shots! feel free to ask any questions. thanks guys! hope to see you all there!


P.S. this will be a pot luck kind of bbq hang out thing so bring whatever you want to contribute. please dont be super cheap... thanks again!

 

i dont think i should go until i figure out my alignment issue.

 

Does anyone on here have or have had the wheel brand "Konig" ? I am looking at a set and was curious about them.

 

Tired of the grids already? I think konigs are pretty good wheels, what model konig are you thinking shout getting?

 

Konig has been around awhile...lotta honda/acura stuff when I was hondatech...kind of a rota before rotas got big I think

 

You can roll with me if you want

 

Found a set I like on rallysportdirect.com
SSR Type F 18x9.0 5x114.3 +50mm Touring Gold

I was told I will not need to run a spacer on the fronts, hopefully that will take care of the shaking I have a 70mph. It's going to be a long 2 weeks for them to come in lol

 

Why does express/overnight shipping have to be so damn expensive lol

 

Well the 2 day air is about 80 and overnight is about 360 lol they are not in stock at the moment, I am going to be selling the rota's for cheap.

 

Are they dual drilled?