{"id":10694,"date":"2026-09-08T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10694"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:36:25","slug":"continuously-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/09\/08\/continuously-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuously Variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the trip I had left a draft lingering, about the 01234 and then: 5Quintessence.<\/p>\n<p>I have most of a winter to worry about that. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the focus is so very screwed down tight. <\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p><em>2002 Subaru Outback is getting a new clutch &#8230; while the transmission is out anyway, what kinds of things should I be concerned about with it? The car has 100,000 miles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And the Lumo AI saith: well, lots of things, but especially this.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rear main crankshaft seal \u2014 the classic. It&#8217;s the oil seal on the back of the engine, right behind the flywheel. If it starts leaking six months after the clutch job, you pay the transmission-out labor all over again. Parts cost is trivial; do it.<\/p>\n<p>Oil separator plate \u2014 this is the big Subaru-specific one. On the 2.5L engines of that era, the plastic separator plate on the back of the engine is notorious for cracking and weeping oil straight onto the clutch. Later revisions are metal. If yours is still original plastic, replacing it now is arguably more important than the rear main seal.<\/p>\n<p>Throwout (release) bearing and pilot bearing \u2014 usually included with a clutch kit, but confirm. Skimping here wastes the whole job.<\/p>\n<p>Transmission input shaft seal and shifter linkage bushings \u2014 accessible while the box is out.<\/p>\n<p>Rear differential \u2014 check level and condition of the fluid while they&#8217;re under there.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>On a seemingly unrelated note.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Epic of Gilgamesh is among the earliest surviving works of literature and one of the first texts to explore, in sustained narrative form, themes that remain central to literature: friendship, civilization, sexuality, grief, power, mortality, and the human desire to outlive death.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And here is a quote from it:<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nShamhat unfastened the cloth of her loins, she bared her sex and he took in her charms. She did not recoil, she took in his scent: she spread her clothing and he lay upon her. She treated the man, the savage, to the work of a woman. His passion caressed and embraced her. For six days and seven nights Enkidu was erect, as he coupled with Shamhat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And this was how Enkidu the Cro-Mag beast became Enkidu, para-civilized man, and friend to the king. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the trip I had left a draft lingering, about the 01234 and then: 5Quintessence. I have most of a winter to worry about that. In the meantime, the focus is so very screwed down tight. To 2002 Subaru Outback is getting a new clutch &#8230; while the transmission is out anyway, what kinds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10696,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10694\/revisions\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}