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About northgeorgiaroo
- Birthday 03/10/1974
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Location
Arvada
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Interests
Fixing Cars! I don't know why, but I love figuring out how to make stuff work!
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Occupation
Writing, renting rooms.
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Biography
So glad to have another 'roo.
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Vehicles
1990 Legacy L Wagon (X2)
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Thanks for the advice, bheinen, but this was actually a while ago. The deal fell through for a multitude of reasons, the main one being that the guy's idea of "mint" meant with a bad paint job covering a fair amount of body work. As far as I know, he's still driving it. And it does fly, I'll give it that. And I still have my wagon which I am going to have to fix up or sell one of these days. (ah well, maybe with THIS income tax check....)
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Sigh... Not what I wanted to hear, but probably what I needed to hear. Reliability issues, poor mileage added to the issue of it being a 2-seater pretty much kills the idea. Oh well... The IRS check will go instead to give the 90 lego wagon a transmission. (please see thread in WTB if you have any info on tranny in the Georgia/Tennessee/Alabama/Carolinas area) Thanks!
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OK, I am having some problems with the current 'roo. 4EAT appears to be on its last legs. Won't shift out of 1st, tried the easy fixes, NOT getting rid of her just yet, but I have to get to work you know! A friend has offered to sell his 82 RX-7 in (he says) near MINT condition. I am seriously intrigued by the thought of going Rotary. As a serious devotee of the KISS (keep it simple, stupid!) theory of mechanical engineering, a motor that has no valves or valvetrain, leaving fewer than 20 moving parts sounds like a dream. Anyone have experience with Mazda rotary? Esp. this vintage (i think it's the 12A engine). Any advice would be appreciated.
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Uhh... If friend who did water pump thinks crank/cam sensors are bad, thats a good place to start. He should have gotten a close look at both when doing the water pump. You don't say why friend 2 thinks it is timing. I assume you (and/or friend 2) know that would be the cam timing, as this engine has electronic ignition and you can't adjust the ingition timing. If friend 1 is right, sensors can be replaced fairly easily. If friend 2 is right, you are taking the timing belt off again (friend 1 had to take it off to do water pump) and aligning the marks. (thread search: "Timing Belt" will reveal all you need to know) If you have to do this, find out if friend 1 replaced timing belt, idler pulleys and cam/crank seals while he was in there. If not, you probably should. On the other hand, both friends may be wrong, and you may need to replace fuel pump, coil, igniter, or even just a fuse somewhere. Which is another way of saying, everyone here will happily help you as much as they can, but you may need to post more information about what it is doing, and what you have already tried.
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Yep. FWD fuse in, same as when out -- TB about 75% of the time, rest of the time no. The Duty C solenoid is bad. Fluid changed,-- all stayed same. Covered here: http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=77162 In other news... Drove a little further tonight, and shift points still seem off. A lot better than before, but still not quite right. I guess I'll be flushing the tranny soon. After that... TCU? Tranny has about 225k miles. I am leaning towards the used because I live in an apartment (=no garage or driveway). I can drop tranny and put in another one at work in a few days, I hope. Can't work on the car in front of the apartment without catching major flak from the landlord.
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Fixed! Thanks go to Blackbart! There are a lot of great folks on here who sell used parts, but Frank is one of the best! He get me the part, and probably saved me a lot of trouble (by selling me the TPS attached to a throttle body -- saved me trying to get the TPS installed and aligned correctly). Shipped fast and well packed every time. The transmission is shifting a lot better, although still have TB, and tax refund went to pay down debts, etc. Sooo... Maybe when I get the "stimulus" check, I can get a new-to-me tranny.:-\
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:lol: Someone please post a link to full size! (Or if you will photoshop a new one, we will take up a collection. You could even add the rally car to some other Windows "stock" wallpapers. "Red moon desert" would be perfect.) Ahh, hell, I'm gonna try it with the freeware photo editor I have, GIMP. If I succeed, I will post the results.
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Umm... Not quite. That's why I went looking for this board in the first place Glad I found you guys though, even though y'all assured me that my EJ22 almost assuredly didn't have a blown HG. When you take in an abused Soob like I did, you can't make any assumptions. It's just like taking in an abused dog, you just have to deal with the problems when they come up. This legacy sounds like it might be time to put her to sleep, though.
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A brass figlagee to you for spotting it I just changed it yesterday, after finding a podcaster (The Brass Figlagee) who is posting as many old shows as he can on Itunes free! One of my favorites is still "Working on the old man's car" Oh yeah, and by the way, I am still having the problem, I am trying to figure out exactly what is going on while driving short trips. Just to see what would happen, I disconnected the TPS and drove about 1/2 a block. CEL was on, and the old girl would barely move. So it is sending something to the ECU and TCU, it just may not be correct. Looking at a tranny when I get the tax refund check anyway, so I'm just keping an eye on it at this point. Thanks, Dan
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Thanks, guys. I changed the fluid about 2,000 miles ago. (Not flushed, but changed with the pan off, run a couple days, then drained and changed again.) Many thanks to Gary for reminding me. The POWER light does flash, (it's been flashing most of the time because of the failed duty C solenoid, and I got used to ignoring it.). I checked it this afternoon -- the weird thing where you hold your tongue just so while moving from 1st to D, pushing the Manual button on and off, and after about 15 tries, it started flashing codes. First one was still Duty C solenoid. Then it said, throttle position sensor. Arggh! That is the one sensor I don't have from the harness that came with my boneyard engine. My extra is in two pieces. If anybody needs me, I will be in the WTB forum, trying to get someone to trade sensors with me. I might just drive it like this for two or three weeks until I get that wonderful check from Uncle Sam. Alternately, Has anyone had a TPS from an EJ22 opened? is there anything in there I might be able to service or clean up? Thanks, Dan
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My Legacy Wagon has started something new to go with all her other quirks.:-\ It is staying in low gear waaay longer than I would like (4EAT), even when I am barely pushing down on the gas pedal. In park, the engine seems to rev normally with steady pressure on the gas, and comes right back to idle when I lift my foot. While driving, I can force it to shift by putting it in MANUAL and moving the selector to 3. I don't think there's a problem with the throttle, so the TPS is what's left, right? But shouldn't it be throwing a CEL if that's the problem? Could it be the TCU instead? Thanks! Dan