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it has ac but someone took it out dont see the ac compressor and 2 alternator belts on it so that could be why i am overheating no mechanical fan on it

89 subaru GL 239,079 miles on it still runs but need little work

ok thank you loyale .. i think i am going to pull the motor out in spring or find myself a garage and redo all the gaskets just to make sure i cover all of the base on the engine and one side i dont like the looks of it is caked in oil on passenger side. so might as well do them all at once while its out then i will know that i done them all and dont have to hunt down the leaks and for my peice of peace on my mind although i do have garage up at the cabin.. but cant get there snow is too deep up there no plow to do the drive way theres no mechanical belt driven fan on the sub.. just the electric fan would that be the problem ?

is my car supposed to have dual fans or just single fan ?

humm... ill check it out tomorrow and it looked like its kinda foamy when i checked the coolant earlier ill check into it tomorrow to make sure

i am from anaconda, still working on my subaru gl just got it for free its not running right

hey guys.. would it be the reason why its hard to start bad head gasket? it seems to overheat even with thermosat out ?

it goes ccw i know its already on right i followed the manual book so it cant be it i wiggled the wire it revs up some and even down too as well so i a m going to clean the sucker up some how

ok will check into that although its a fuel injected. and which hose do i pull off and pour seafoam in ?

brand new sparkies.. all ngk's the wire i was moving was two wires goes straight on the throttle body the top ones ill go check again in few days and to let you know a little more history of the car the old owner bought the car was running perfectly then broke down took it to the drive way left the car parked for a year or so due to a bad cv joints then he had money to get every thing new.. cv joints, spark plugs rotor cap and disty cap new belt in when he tried to fix it he got the cv fixed and put in new stuff in .. then he messed with just about everything to get it going out of blue he just gave it to me said you can have it i hate subies and bought a new car.. day one since i joined on here looked through the fourms got everything resetted timing belt was off by one... wires were ripped out left hanging on the tire re do the timing on the disty got it fixed and the cap was spun .. screw came off from the disty thats how i acquired the car not bad for couple days of me getting the car running..

you should be fine although it will be a little noisy

i bumped something in the power steering area was checking to make sure everything was fine but not sure which one the engine just started idle higher and i tried repeating the prodecure no repeated results.. i dont know what the hell did i bump anyway back to trouble shooting still hard to start it starts but you have to keep it on gas at 1500 rpm itll run smoothly but below that .. it DIES miserably

fresh gas! i just put in like 2 gallons into it and i did get rid of all of the old gas and used it on my snowblower just to use em up ok what do i have to do to do a leak test ? i sprayed carb cleaner allover along the vaccum hoses, and the base of the intake where fi is at no changes.

somebody prodded it and tweeked it beyond my comphrension. so what i did was i reset the timing , reset the disty re done the wire now it starts but i have to floor it then crank it and it fights to get started then starts and then wont idle how ever if i feather it to rev a little up to 1500 rpm it runs fine with me holding the throttle at 1500 rpm

yes its starting but not quite there yet.. i managed to get it going and have it idling at 1500 rpm by set of weight on the pedal then i sprayed some carb cleaner around the vaccums to see if it would rev more or less. nope it aint that so back to trouble shooting again lol ill do it tomorrow i know disty is spot on . maybe i am off by one plug wire will double check tomorrow

thank you for pointing me in right direction . once again! its alive starts fine but have to keep the throttle wideopen it starts and runs but not below 1500 rpm it idles kinda.. but revs fine after 1500 rpm and such runs smoothly just wont idle at 700 rpm it idles just fine at 1200 rpm or above however from that spot below hard to start though. have to keep the throttle pinned to the floor and it starts then if i let go the throttle below 1500 rpm it dies seems like i have never ending problem! i only paid like 20 bucks into it not bad for a free car... new belt already in it and that 20 bucks i have is also the new belts so i am saving it just in case if it breaks again

i did the 0 degree mark and the dots is already at the 10 o clock just like you said .. tried other way one tooth on the disty cranking no fire so i went back to the other way and now it just fires but no start it still wants to start cranking and fire then cranking cranking then fires then cranking

just did the disty its on right now thank god no back fires it just wants to start.. but not running it just goes crank then fires then cranking cranking then fires fires then back to cranking

yes the video helped me so much and i know i got the timing belt right i am going to do the disty right now in few minutes and before i did that at 20 degree mark and the passenger cam dot is at approx 10 o clock and the rotor is pointing at number one . so it dont back fire no more since i re done the wires .. it cranks but it acts like it want to start like this cranking fires then crank fires fires but not running no back fires though

yea the poor sub i have has been prodded and tweeked by someone else i am going to get it back to where it should have been . i will do the timing but i am certainly the timing belt is on right with the hash mark III and the cam is on the opposite of eachother at extactly 6 and other at 12 when i turn 360 it becomes 12 then 6 so i should be able to rule that out . ill do the disty make sure its back in correct place then ill go step futhur and trace to what is the really the problem

humm.. wheres the pcv valve at ? i would like to go through the list to check i know my timing is spot on will go through disty make sure its on right. i would like to go through the check list of what it could be wrong

my right side .. ( im a little confused) or am i looking at the right behind the engine or am i looking at the right side of the engine when i stand in front ? or are you talking about the passenger side that has to be at least ten o clock on the cam ? i thought it has to be at 0 degrees ?

brand new fuel filter and pump installed i havent pulled the hoses or the air filter or anything like that i left that thing alone .. so will have to trace every thing electrically now i think it has to do with the electrical .. it has to be something simple that i missed.. so will have to eliminate every steps i could think of ..

thank you very much i already posted in those fourms getting lots of replies

i did the three lines like i said i resetted it already and it is 89 subaru gl 1.8 litre . spfi the coil is fine and i am wondering if it is the pick up module gone bad ? and i am very sure the cam dots are spot on .. not one tooth off its sparking just fine on the coil that is but just back fires and hard to start but once you get it going it would idle but you would keep it on the floor to get it going and then once it gets past 2k rpm it runs but still misses.. but if i let go the gas it dies i dont think it is firing correctly and i have resetted timing like 4 times already i dont think it is the timing belts because i did the three lines like this ||| i followed the direction from here..