mikaleda

are you talking about the main relay?

box end wrench worked good! thanks everyone for the tips.

cool good thing to know. thanks for sharing.

sounds like a fusible link.

if it is that far off it is probably a vacuum leak. i am not familiar with the ea82 do they have a vacuum operated spark advance? if so that is where i would start. your timing should be somewhere around 8 degrees.

i would do a filter before i messed with the tps. when you replace the filter run some more injector cleaner through it it again. running injector cleaner through a dirty filter will do nothing for your injectors.

i noticed the ticking at first but now that i have replaced the front oil seal and ran it (and also got rid of the rats nest in muffler ) they quit ticking and the engine defiantly has pressure now. this car has sat for three years so i have a project ahead of me i need a new muffler, ball joints and to finish the weber swap someone didn't finish and it will be a runner.

probably cats are alot in scrap because they have precious metals in them

don't mind me i am just posting so i can keep track of this thread. i have a 90 legacy too and i would love to get some more clearance out of it. :cool:

it sounds like he said that there was oil in the part of the valve cover where you access your plugs could there have been grounding out do to the oil? just a thought.

update. i went online and ordered a rebuild kit for my oil pump (it only took five min. to rebuild) and re installed but ended up being front oil seal. thanks to everyone for your help. p.s. i think the oil pump needed to be rebuilt anyway because as soon as i replaced after rebuild it actually built up enough oil pressure to start spraying oil everywhere (that's when i figured out it was the front seal).

i just recently had this problem, check your injectors. when this happened to me i ended up replacing the knock sensor, throttle positioning, fuel filter, and o2 before i finally figured out one of the injectors was shot. from the sounds of it you might have more than one out.

thanks to every one for tips i will post what i use to torque down the crank puly when i am finished

good idea i was worried about stuff breaking off like you said. i like the box wrench idea that should be flexible enough to bend before it breaks and i could really torque on it too. oh ya 987687 the reason i didn't try the starter to take it off i was worried about damaging stuff if the wrench slipped.0 i did try an impact to get the bolt off initially but it was an electric one and was not powerfull enough

i used a punch in one of the holes in the flywheel to break loose nut when i tried to torque back down it snapped.

i would try ultra copper rtv. that is what my parts store had in stock for the pump to block surface.

thats what i tried at first but i was using a cheapo so i might try a better one. i thought of a screwdriver to but the holes in this flywheel are so small a standard Phillips head screwdriver would not fit in the hole. am i just not looking hard enough? are there bigger holes than the ones i am seeing?

good tip i would not have thought of that. easy enough to do though i would just clean it at the same time as i change the filter.

cool i will try that thanks for the tip.

i just replaced a front oil seal in an 85 brat. i locked the flywheel through one of the holes, but the holes are so small i can't get anything substantial enough in them to lock it good enough to get the right torque on the crankshaft puly bolt. i keep breaking whatever i put in there, does anyone have a suggestion of what to put in these holes to lock it up good enough to get at least 40 foot pounds of torque on it?

ya napa gold is wix and napa silver is fram. i don't mind fram but wix is better. good to know that o-rielys has wix i didn't know that oh ya as for air filters k&n is a good one to go with the inital cost may be alot but they filter better and are cheaper in the long run. you can get K&N at napa to. to anyone that doesn't know this k&n are cleanable filters all you have to buy after you buy one is the oil i have a friend with one in a 6.7 cummins and he says it costs about twelve dollars every time he cleans his filter. that is less than half of what a stock wix costs for that engine

i get them from napa, napa gold is wix. rockauto.com might have them but i'm not sure.

:-p well now i feel dumb i was thinking of a different car obviously the gt kinda made me think v8. i'm not a ford fanatic i am a chevy guy lol i can tell you just about every engine chevy made but when it comes to ford i really don't know alot.

wix is the only way to go i think they may be a little more but they are worth it. i have nothing but wix all the way around on my subie

lol a 66 ford is alot different than a subaru 2.5 there is alot more horse power coming out of that 66 so a rod may act differently