turboxtman

I'll keep trying guys , I'll let ya know what happens next time i get a day to work on the soob. thanks

last time i connected the green plugs and wasnt able to start the motor it filled my cylinders with fuel and then was hydro locked with fuel until i took the plugs out and threw all the gas out by cranking motor over, so i guess i will have to figure out some other way to do it .. on another note ive tried turning dist both ways as far as it can turn after setting flywheel to 0 and pointing rotor to #1 and it did nothing , so i guess i need to move flywheel by hand ... i dunno

to set the timing that way you say I have to start the engine , but my engine wont run... I guess i will have to remove the distributor turn crank til flywheel shows 25 and then reinstall dist pointing rotor to #1 ?

ok cool, so to change it to 25 btdc i turn flywheel to 25 then move rotor to point to #1? i think ur right about stuck injector on #3 cylinder... how do i check fuel system pressure? and the car was almost empty so i added a gal or so of new fuel

so with a lil research I found that this is the knock sensor ? can someone take a pic of their knock sensor plug so i can tell which wire to hook onto which post I guess i will have to use barrel connectors since its seems i'm missing the harness top... If this sensor is bad would it not allow car to start ? I'm getting so frustrated , I got good spark after replacing coil and plugs, getting fuel to the engine cause i checked in front of filter and know for sure its at least getting to cylinder 3 cause it was flooded when i checked for spark, but car wont even sputter or fire at all and its driving me bananas:banana:

lol i was getting ready to install a battery shut off switch , well after i'm able to get the car running lol,,,

the "sensor" is between the throttle body and the flywheel opening to check timing

installed new sparkplugs and ignition coil and car still wont fire sounds a little bit closer tho , I was looking around engine to see if anything was disconnected and noticed a sensor or something that someone had added butt connectors to so i lifted one of the wires going to it (black and white) and it was barely sitting in the connector. so it prob wasnt working at alll ... would this keep the car from starting ?

that fixed it sorry for being such a soob noob

yea do yourself a favor and look up mile's art of subaru maintenance videos on youtube, they were a real lifesaver for me

ok i'll look tomm for that switch cause all i had seen was the switch to left of steering wheel , thanks

I checked the other spark plugs and the rest either had very weak yellow spark or no spark at all , so i replaced the coil with an accel coil and i'm getting alot better spark and its sparking on all plugs. It got dark before i was able to gap all the plugs and try firing it up again tho. I also discovered when i was testing the #3 plug that there was alot of gas in the #3 cylinder as it came shooting out of the cylinder into my fathers face when i was cranking it and he was watching for spark.... do u think the injector maybe stuck open ? or maybe it just had gotten flooded by trying to turn it over when it has really bad spark ?

my running lights turn as soon as i put the battery teminals on , they stay on even after i go press off on the button... any ideas?

yes thats what i meant

ok so heres update , cam timing was good... when i checked both sets of III notches on the flywheel the cam notches lined up , when i turned flywheel to 0 the rotor was pointing away from #1 cylinder so i lifted distributor and turned it to #1 but car still wont crank . Was I supposed to connect green connectors before i lifted and turned distributor ? I guess next step would be to check the rest of the sparkplugs and make sure they are all getting spark (I had only checked #1 plug) distributor might be bad? I can tell that the rotor button and dist cap are new, and the plug wires are new, the sparkplugs could prob be replaced tho p.s. sorry about run on sentences I never really paid much attention in english class, the girl that sat in front of me was waaaay to hott! lol