ShawnW

Have you ruled out the A/C belt or compressor and its tensioner? Pull that belt and verify its quiet or not. You can also pull the timing belt back off and spin the idlers. If one makes more noise than the others, or you didn't replace them all, I highly recommend replacing all of them with the belt, then go from there. You can run the engine with the covers off, sometimes that will make it easier to see/hear the noise.

There should be a part number on the side in green lettering if they match go for it.

They sure did and an 81 would be a high percentage chance of that.

Pretty close to what I would do. Some corrections: The fuel level sending unit is accessed from the rear of the car not on the interior under the carpet like more modern Subaru's. The fuel filters for this car are very cheap so I would recommend replacing both of them and as suggested watch what comes out of the filtered line under the hood. It would probably be best to put a few gallons in and manually run the fuel pump by jumpering power to it.

Nice job and info. Going to get to the bottom of this one I am sure of it.

I prefer the Red Fujibond for that application.

I can ship you one Priority Mail/Fedex.

Yes they do. They they are very similar.

Or most Subaru's newer than 94.

Theres no fuel cut switch. The Main and Fuel relays are up in the upper dash behind where the ECM and TCM was on a brass bracket. One is square and brown with a matching color plug, the other is silver with a green plug. They are WAY up in the top of the dashboard on the driver side. When you cycle the key to ignition on, have somebody listen with you for the fuel pump buzzing and then shutting off after it builds pressure. Should run for about 3-4 seconds and the go away. Fuel pump is back behind/above the passenger seat. MOst of them are loud enough to hear alone too. I have seen 1 bad Fuel pump relay in my years of working on Subarus, and 15-20 Main relay failures, most of which were 97 or so model year for some reason.

Theres TONS of those cars up in your area. Gotta be a pull a part yard around with a harness you can get. Dare I say a huge majority of the USMB members are from your corner of the country even! Post a parts wanted thread? I wouldn't splice because some of these are shielded wire setups like coax with signals coming/going to the engine.

I could be misreading but I think you said you are missing 1 plug on the intake manifold harness that was the smaller of the 3. That one usually has mostly sensor grounds in it if I am remembering correctly. It would certainly explain all of the codes, in essence "ghost" codes as the sensitivity is too high (sorta). You really need an entire engine harness most likely the battery corrosion got into those connectors. Lots of patience, de-pinning the main harness side, cleaning with a brush and dielectric grease coating after, might also work.

Too nice to part out!

The ones that are here, and down there, are pretty active. Id say 3-4 of them. Tommy sure likes his Gen1 Brat down that way and is active here. Biffanyus I can't believe your user name wasn't already taken. (in 1998 for that matter).

Might be surprised how nice it would look with a WRB colored decal set instead. The ones that say Brat up the side or the ones on the bottoms of the doors. Check out this one: Only your WRB color to give the gold something to balance itself to. Maybe even better:

Doctors note from a fellow USMB member dated in advance?

Active donors is 78. Meaning their "subscription" is active. 2/3's of these are 5 and 10 dollar donors.

I love that section of that forum! Will be added after migration! As for pricing, we are at 60/month for hosting, 14.99/yr on domain registration, and 275/yr for VBulletin License. When we exceed bandwidth the pricing on the hosting goes up but not by a big amount like it was on the providers we had in the beginning. I am looking at Invision Power or "Ip BOard" to move to. Right now we have, as I type this, 83 users on the forums and this is probably off peak. I have seen as many as 636 according to the bottom of our VBulletin but that seems really high. Anyway, the packages on Ip Board require you to pick a number of users max online at a time. At 175 at a time its 119/month and it jumps another $200 to go to 375 at a time. While expensive, it is pretty much the top of the line 'home' for USMB, just a matter of is it worth it. Right now we risk a hack with the version we are on but because the 4.0 version is a piece of junk and the 3.7.4 is the last stable version according to what I was reading on the VBulletin forums, I haven't upgraded. Didn't seem worth the $275 and time spent upgrading just to have new problems and a still hackable board.

I have a 6 pin fuel pump connector with the fuel pump leads for this exact purpose. I didn't want sparks or to have to pull the pump or anything. 4 screws, connect to battery with alligator clips and run it straight thru the filter to a gas can.

Never seen an upper spring perch do that before! Wow.

It sounds like you didnt get the intake manifold and related plugs on the right rear of the engine plugged in all the way. Remove each one, and make sure it clicks when it plugs together. Theres a red plug, a grey plug, and 3 on the edge of the bell housing that would amount to this number and types of codes being there. And they definitely wouldn't clear if they are unplugged. If the CEL is blinking stop driving it, that usually means the car is misfiring and its very bad for the engine.

Its a thermal thing. On the highway the fluid expanded and began to leak. Its amazing how little is coming out when you spot a leak sometimes and an easy mistake. Run it thru all the gears, warm, and check it while its idling to see where the level is at. Drain some out if its overfilled. This unit likes a precise amount to be in it to work best and not leak, shift hard, etc.

In the coming months, I am looking at upgrading the forum software here. Unfortunately, the VBulletin Software is out of date, and the newer version has a lot of problems. This forum is growing. Not as fast as previous years but still pretty well. As many of you have experienced, the server and software have had a mind of their own in the past few months and have been more trouble than they are worth. I hate seeing any downtime but I know this is unavoidable. There are various directions I can go with this site but unfortunately, almost all of them are going to be more expensive than what is currently being utilized. In the past, me and "Shadow" have paid out of pocket for many things and have occasionally been reimbursed from the donation account but there just isn't the funding right now to move. If I had more personal funding right now I would just do it but I don't. I have never asked for money on this forum and don't intend to just yet but I would love to hear suggestions via email (shawnw@Ultimatesubaru.org). New Shirts are coming and this generates good funding for the board but with an upgrade I may not have time to be doing a server migration and upgrade along with shipping shirts. I want to continue the site being AD free. This is my top priority. I would like to get a more modern user base coming here if people want that. As awesome as the 80's Subaru's are, I think having some Impreza, WRX, SVX and XT/XT6 owners here more often would be of great benefit both to them and the rest of us. When you come here and don't find what you wanted, where do you go? Any suggestions, again, please reply or email me, especially ones that will generate donations to the site. Big/Small, like usual, I want to hear about it. I would also like to know what features of our current system you: 1. Want to keep. 2. Want to go away or improve. 3. Is social networking important to the forum users? (Facebook/Twitter, etc) This will affect how much the forum, data use and bandwidth, etc uses but if it gets people here and hanging out and enjoying the site thats the idea.

Welcome aboard! Sweet ride!

Thats a beautiful car, and that is coming from someone that doesn't even like that particular model!