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  1. Thanks everyone for your help. The car was in the garage for three weeks with them using it as their daily runaround. The garage found no fault as it didn't break down for them. I got it back and it broke down the next day on my way to work. Ain't it always the way? But it was still dead when the garage got out to it. They traced all the faults back to the ecu, or its power supply. Plugging a second hand ecu in appears to have solved all problems. It hasn't broken down, or even misfired for almost a week now. Yeehaa.
  2. If you do mean cam cover, rather than head gasket then this is a very easy diy job too. There is no need to touch the cam belt!! the covers just pull off after the removal of a few (3 each side I think) bolts. If you do do this then replace the bolt seals as well, they are cheap and in my experience more likely to be the source of the leak than the cam cover gasket. I will second the earlier post that the tranny mount are easy to change.
  3. Thanks everyone. It is in the workshop at the moment after it broke down three times in 4 Kms slightly worse than the previous once a week or so. It whent into the workshop dead on the back of a wagon and drove off it. They are now driving it around on errands and to go home so hopefully it will break down for them and they can diagnose it. I will post more here when I know it. I am not so sure about the alarm, it was fine for over 2 years after the alarm was removed and has only recently started with this problem.
  4. I have had the codes pulled after every breakdown. sometimes no code, twice almost every possible fault code. Thats why I had the wiring done under the dash, my stepson had had an alarm with imobilisor fitted, and then taken out before he gave it back. The fitter left the wiring a mess, but we had no problems for over 2 years. Unfortunately it has broken down twice after the wiring was sorted.
  5. I have a 91 Legacy, !800cc single point injection. It has an intermittent fault, every few days it just dies. Symptoms are: It starts to missfire, and then in a few seconds dies off completely. If you sit there trying to start it for half an hour, it will eventually start, sometimes it runs really rough and dies again, but not very often, most of the time it just runs like nothing was wrong. Have had it trailered to the garage twice whilst dead, both times it just drove off the trailer with no problem. Most of the time there isn't even a fault code, and when there is its most of them, both sensors, crank and cam, injectors, 1, 2, 3 and four, not bad for a single point injection, etc. When trying to start it, sometimes, but not always, the check engine warning light flashes along with a relay under the dash, and I can hear the petrol pump hesitate with the flash and relay. Once I am sure that whilst trying to start it I turned the ignition off, but the injector carried on operating ( buzzing coming from the hrottle body). I have had the wiring under the dash tidied, the ignition relay changed, and the mass air flow meter in the throttle body chaged. Any ideas? I don't want to get rid of it as it has no other problems. Here in NZ we have to get a warrant of fitness for cars every 6 months and I decided to have that done before spending any more money on it. The dam thing passed with no problems or recomendations as it has done since we came back from the UK nearly three years ago and claimed it back from my step son. I really want to get this sorted it has been in and out of the garage who cannot find anything wrong with it. They have it at the moment and the manager is driving it trying to get it to break down. No luck so far and they have had it for 2 days. HEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!! please
  6. Have RHD legacy 1800 year 1991. Every couple of weeks it dies, I fiddle under the bonnet and it works again after half an hour or so. It is a Japanese import so is the single point injection, last time it died I was outside the subaru dealer in Pukekohe NZ and they said there are no fault codes in the computer, but the fuel pump relay was clicking, so they think it's the relay or the wiring to the relay. I bought the relay started the car (it had recovered by then) and drove it home. I cannot find the relay under the dash. I know it is meant to be up under the dash on the ignition side somewhere, but so far it hides well. I don't think its the fuel pump, because it runs well when it wants to, and there is no obvious logic to when it fails, sometimes when I try to drive it out of the garage cold, sometimes after about 8 or 9 ks never (so far) during a longer drive. Any ideas, or advice on the main problem, or where subaru have hidden the relay. Oh yes, when it dies everything else seems to work ok, it turns over on the starter etc, it just will not fire.
  7. Anyone know the solution to this one? Headlights on my 91 legacy don't work. The relays side lights work, but no dip or main beam. Everthing else is OK. The relays in the fuse box behind the battery operate when you switch from dips to mains but it seems to stop there. There appears to be power to this fusebox, and I cannot find a blown fuse in either fusebox, behind the battery or in drivers footwell. The earth from the headlight bulb plug appears to be ok and I am now officially confused Also how big a job is changing the clutch. I have done engines and clutches on other cars but have never had to do a rear wheel drive or 4 wheel drive before
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