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Ok brains trust,

I have a leaking power steering rack on my 02 outback. and i have a 09 forester parts car with a good rack with 200K on it, are they interchangeable?

regards

There’s a few generations of subaru steering racks, the differences between say 2000 & 2010 are mainly related to the rack mounts and the compatible subframes.

The passenger side uses a saddle type mount, a rounded loop under the rack.

The earlier racks have a square mount on the drivers side.

Late GD moves to rhs tabs that bolt to the subframe, and on bp/bl and gr plus the tabs are vertically offset.

So if you’re after a bolt on replacement it’s best to check the rhs mount and potentially any similar models/years will fit.

So let’s take a look on opposed forces site, find the gen2 rhd outback, aka a gen3 2.5i wagon.

http://opposedforces.com/parts/legacy/en_b12/type_28/

Find the steering gearbox in the steering section…

http://opposedforces.com/parts/legacy/e ... tration_5/

Click on the click part number for your year rack and we see under useage info that it’s specific to that model, probably because it’s a slow or variable rate rack,

This means you may want to source a working rack from a wreck, source a seal kit, or replace the rack with a more common item from a similar year range car.

To get a rough idea of what might fit, I looked at what the racks the related rack rebuild kit fits:
http://opposedforces.com/parts/info/34190AE080/, that’s any GX or RX…

Otherwise I use my local driveshaft shops here in Melbourne, Statewide and A1 driveshaft.

They (or your local) can rebuild and test steering racks.

Thanks Benny,

Yep slid under the forester yesterday after work and the rhs bracket dos mount differently to outback. o well will have to order a seal kit.