leadfootracin

shaved keys, my wifes legacy was stolen from the courthouse parking lot, employee parking. the xt 6 at home was rifled but not stolen, the club is a deterent, they would steal a car w/o because its easier. the keys I have for our subys will enter and start most 91-98 subarus

early legacys have a trans filter retroed by the left front valve cover, almost looks like a fuel filter, can be bought at the dealer

Need help, sold my fsm with my xt. I now have a 1990 loyale wagon 4eat all wheel drive, the story goes bought wagon, rear diff blown up and cought on fire, r&r diff with used, correct ratio, drive car severe tourque bind always, even with fuse in, test all soloinds good, check tcu pinouts,tcu internal short always applying duty c soloind, r&r tcu with junkyard unit, works fine for 3 years, sold xt and manuals. Now loyale locks up tourque converter randomly, will do it cold, at idle, foot on brake, from park to reverse, nuteral to drive. Its locked up enough to kill the engine, somtimes it will work fine, no rhyme or reason. I think its electrical, changed tcu again same prob. has anybody else seen this? Was wondering if anybody has a transmission wiring diagram they could send me? Thanx

a Fuel pump from a gm throttle body system will NOT work, only about 15# pressure.

pushing is understeer, loose is oversteer:dead:

gm internal regulated alts are pretty good at idle, if its not quite enough the pulleys are interchangble, smaller pulley, more output at idle. I just wanted to use the flamethrower:burnout:

most of the small trailers with 4 lug 8" wheels use a chev vega/ monza bolt pattern, 13"s will fit the hub.

Do not use starting fluid on a gas engine!! If the engine is out of time, or it has an spark problem it can and will shatter pistons, break rods, blow out oil pans, valve covers, intake manifolds. Use carb cleaner, if the engine is going to run (bad fuel system etc) it will run on carb cleaner. I have a ball of aluminum on my shelf that used to be a piston, (starting fluid and mistimed spark) my 2cnts

Bulb # 89 :headbang: same base smaller bulb, used for underdash lights on gm and markers on a lot of cars:burnout:

I am not in vancouver, but I charge $150.00 per side installed for almost all cv shafts, most cars that includes the shaft, reman. A lot of shafts are becomeing avail new for $5 or $10 more due to lack of cores. if I install a new shaft there is no core. check your local parts stores, ask about new? Easy install. good luck.

on ford 2.3 ltr engines we use dimes, cost 80 cents to shim a set, re ground cams are that, reground. if you specify new billets you dont have to shim them.

at the trans shop we just put a big bolt, nut and washers thru it to hold it together for rollaround:burnout:

Warning, do not use starting fluid on any gas engine, ether, (starting fluid), will break pistons, bend rods, blow the oil pan and or valve covers off, use carb cleaner or gas, if the engine wont fire find out whats wrong, (no spark, fuel, timing, etc) I have a shelf of parts, NG from engines that people have tried to start with ether. any car that comes into my shop with starting fluid cans in it, the starting fluid gets thrown away and the owner is warned that any engine repairs have no warranty. my 2% JR

1st thing your tought racin stock cars, keep your fingers outside the wheel. :-\

your wagon's bigger than your hatch. be very carfull going downhill. :headbang: :burnout:

you can test with vacum or pressure, either uses a low cost vacum/fuel pressure gauge. DO NOT use this gauge for testing fuel pressure on a fuel injected car. gauge normaly reads between 25" of vacum and 10# of fuel pressure, to test using vacum hook the gauge to manifold vacum, below the carb, or throttle body, engine warm, idle check vacum, should be more than 15" if the vacum drops as the engine is idling steady than there might be a restriction in the exhaust, to test using pressure you remove an o2 sensor or drill a small hole in the pipe ahead of the cat, for the o2 hole drill a hole in a small superball hook your tester hose to the superball and hold it against the bung, have a friend rev the engine and let off, the pressure should not go over 2#, the exhaust is very hot, dont get burnt. converters can meltdown, sending converter parts down the exhaust system so replacing a bad converter may not fix a prob w/ restricted exhaust, you can test the other parts the same way by drilling holes after the cat after bends, etc, drill or use self tapping screws so that you can seal the holes. sorry so longwinded but good luck:eek:

John at delta can get or does have some blank cores also, if he doesent have any for your app it may pay to buy some used cores in the sea-tac area to save your shipping.

tight valves? is the lash correct?

"It does it in neutral too." only when its movin?

southend auto wrecking in renton has a in house repair and rebuild for starters and alts, have had them do reverse rotation and conv no prob, another hit may be jacks payless on rainer ave so. doing your own most of the times ends up being more of a hedake than its worth. :)

a friend had an outback, wouldnt start one morn, towed to dealer and loaner picked up, dealer called, rats had chewed injecter harness, ok repairs, next morn loaner wouldnt crank, open hood rat sitting on air box, harness chewed at fuse block. owner got to buy 2 harnesses that week. owner is a judge in seattle. to keep rats out of sitting cars I put mothballs in a vented container under hood, inside car and in trunk. seems to work.:-\ :-\

use smaller carbs, the stock carb is designed and jetted for a single carb on a 4 cyl engine, 2 carbs of that size will have great topend but suck at throttle opening and midrange. my 2 cents

I dont do emissions, no gas analyzer, ed was right the guy at the 6th ave station can make about anything pass, mid co sounds like a lean misfire, dirty injecters, vacum leak? good luck.

the gas cap test is to make sure you have one, on the filler neck. one of the old tests washington had was to measure the diameter of the filler neck to make sure that you hadent enlarged it to accept a leaded fuel nozzle. I repair cars for a living in wa for the past 20 yrs and ed is right, after the state hired subcontracters for emission testing it whent downhill.

find every recipet for any part bought for that car or copys (friend,reletive picked up part) from anybody you know of any sub part that might that might fit or be adapted to that car, look nationwide for comparable, (CL) (xt6) (hemmings) etc, (check w/ your ins about uninsured motorist, if his insurence is balking about a loaner), use list prices, pregnant gf? cant make DR appts, injuries, no transpo, A few clues. been in a few wrecks. ex demo driver. good luck and have a better new year. JR