hotboxhatchback

i never said the guy was a half wit, you assumed that and thats not fair. didnt your mama tell you if you aint got nothin nice to say dont say nothin at all? i smoke immense quantities of marijuana every day as a medical prescription for fibromyalgia. does that make me a half wit too? i choose who i allow to work on my car by thier demonstrated capabilities and hes fixed tons of cars before just not subarus. be nice man!

the crunching is most noticeable when i let the pedal out. then when the clutch grabs it grabs hard and jerks the car. i have to give it extra gas to keep it from killing the motor and that makes the car jump. it makes noise when i drive but i cant tell if thats not just since its a noisy car its a damn noisy motor!

well thanks for all the replies. i dont really wanna find another mechanic since i dont pay this guy, he works for weed;) and we knows engines he just has to figure out this one in specific. i guess i should just learn to do this to since i already have to do most of my stuff myself out here. i have a bunch of old tools out in a shed behind the house and ive changed brakes before but other than that i dont know where to start. i taped the filter on there and i guess well seehow long that lasts. i know to check compression you have to screw a gauge in where the spark plugs go but i dont konw the propwer proceedure to not screw anything up. ill see if i have the gauge out back otherwise ill hoof it to town for one. i looked up in the owners manual how to check the transmission oil and according to that it has nothing in there. the stick is drier than a popcorn fart:eek: i guess ill get some of that rislone stuff too.

and i was reading what everyone said and i figure spfi and mpfi mean something like efi and that means electronic fuel injection. can someone be more specific, i dont konw all the acronyms just yet.

so just so i konw, what will happen to my motor if i drive without a filter? how can i tell if i already jacked something up? also i dont know if i should make a new post for this but my transmission is apparently fubar too. my mechannic thought it was the clutch but he messed with that earlier today and it just pissed the thing off more. it sonds like a blender crushing ice everytime i put it in gear then when i let the pedal out it jumps and its fine. it usually only does it in first and reverse and not so much if the car is already moving. i told him i just want to replace anything thats bad but he said we need to isolate the issue. does this sound like clutch or bad transmission? and he said i should ask how to "diagnose the efi," whatever the hell that means...he usually only works on tractors and farm equipment so hes not 100% sure what to do with this japanese thing. and another unrelated question for thesubarujunkie, what does charter member mean?

yeah, my motor doesn't look like that. its got a smiple looking thing instead of that carb and wires everywhere. seems like they should be wrapped up or something but theyre just all over like the dude dumped a bowl of rainbow spagetti in there my mechanic buddy wants to buy the car now so i guess thats a good thing. he came by with aplastic thing to put the filter on but it didnt work. he said he'd make one himself if he bought the car but i told him i dont wanna sell it so maybe ill pay him to make it for me. i looked online at some nissan adapters but they dont look like the same shape. i guess i shoulda bought a digi camera by now but i dont like technology. i feel like big brother is reading this right now. i have to go wash my hands

well i looked and my car has the distributor in the front and i think it says ea81 on the motor next to where that comes out. i bought the car from an old guy in soulsbyville who said he got it from a tenant of his earlier that year as some kinda payment. i traded an oz of kill for it with good tags so i thought it was a come up. is my car reliable with efi? i don't have a need to drive a car everyday but i go out in the sticks once in a while for fun and i dont wanna get stranded. i live outside of sonora in california

the maf i guess is the metal part at the end of the intake tube which is the black rubber thing coming from the motor that says SUBARU F.I. i have both of those, i just don't have a filter on it. there's a ppiece of foam over the opening duct taped back around the whole maf. my mechanic said i sould get an adapter and use a aftermarket cone filter with a 3 inch opening so i bought a filter at autozone thats a spectra brand part witha 3 inch opening. i just need the adapter now and i can't find anything online and the guy at autozone said they cant order anything for me like that. what did those cars that had this stuff original use? prolly big plastic boxes like new cars huh?

cool man, i was hoping to get a bite quick. so the efi is completely kosher with the original engine? can it be all original except the hood witht ehcarb sticker like if the efi was an optional upgrade?

i came up on this website looking for an adapter for my maf sensor. im not a mechanic but i know a good one so i can only middleman whats up with my car. i bought this hatchback a couple years ago for fun and drove it for a few months. it had no aif filter at all!! well i got kinda paranoid about jackin up my motor so i quit driving it. i just had my buddy go through it and get it running again but he says it has major issues (and i'd trust the guy with my life). first he said its not supposed to have efi and it should have a carb (the sticker under the hood says so, could it be a replaced hood?) and i might have to replace hella parts to fix that. he said i have to get an air filter to fit on it and that it needs an adpater for something he called a "maf" if i just wanna run it as is or thats all parts i might have to replace to put a carb back on it. it seems like it runs ok, i mean i know its not a jeep but it can hang so do i have to put a carb back on or can i just put a filter on and call it good? and then he said my clutch needs work (prolly gonna have to replace i bet but thats fine, dont want that slippin action around here). so i looked on google for a maf sensor adapter like he said and i couldn't find any subaru stuff. then i started looking for subaru stuff and it looks like nobody makes aftermarket parts for these cars. wtf? are we gonna have to homemake something? btw - its a 83 gl hatchback with a 1.8L stickshift 4x4 and i don't have a digi camera so no pics, sorry. anyone blazin round here?