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i cant take a good picture of the timing belts, ive been trying and its just not enough light in the garage. im sure the metal thing i found under the plastic covers would have not tore up my belt if i hjust had the stupid plastic covers off completely. butoh well, timing belt changes arent too time consuming. i hope this is the fix to my problem!

So i just took off the right side cover and a peice of metal, almost like a gasket of some type got loose in there. or maybe there is no metal gaskets and this was tucked up in there before when i did my timing belt a year ago. anyways the belt teeth are tore up, thats probably my problem not belt on the right side per se

its in a farely decent spot to work on it, i did a whole engine swap where its at right now, but thats not really the point haha. is there a way to take the caps off without draining the coolant and pulling the front end out?

Is there a way to check the timing belt if it skipped a tooth without tearing the front end off? i checked to see if the belt was still in place by rotating the engine and watching the spark plugs as they were out for the movement of the pistons, i have timing, i just dont know if the timing skipped a tooth

Im not too sure how to direct reply, but thanks for the input you 3 DaveT: crank rythm was and still is pretty normal, just wont turn over and start! ill check my distributor along side the coolant temperature sensor, though they were intact fairly well last time around when i did a clutch swap (6months ago) but everything can break so thank you Dee2: it just died, one second i was at a stop light at idle, the next second was when i went to gas and engage the clutch, it died. thankfully it was a downhill that i was at for me to roll through the stop light and park safely off street. not too dificult to start prior to, a quick turn of the key and a bit of gas got it to idle (700rpm). ill definitely check the fuel pump, along side the distributor and the coolant temperature sensor. naru: i dont have a airflow meter? before i was able to bypass the oxygen and have a better start each time.

Hello, My Subaru 1992 loyale died out on me a few days ago and I can't diagnose my car as well as I had thought. My car will turn on when i turn the key to ON, but it wont turn over when i try to start the car. It definitely sounds like its trying to (im guessing thats just my starter). I had a friend try to start the car while i was under the hood, I took off my air intake manifold from on top of the engine to bypass the oxygen (Spark, Fuel, and Air, for the 3 starting components), I also just changed out my fuel filter in case it was that. So i've got spark, my starter, i've seem to have air with the bypass or not, and i seem to have fuel as well. So now its a Mechanical problem im guessing? Maybe my timing belt is off a tooth? any suggestions? or if i need to provide any more information i will, i just dont know the questions that might arise. Thanks, Your friendly old subaru mechanic in the works

Both are manual. I didn't want to try and deal with automatic. I will check those as well, but can't for about a week. Valentine's day is the busiest day of the year where I work... Thanks guys!

Both are manual. I didn't want to try and deal with automatic. I will check those as well, but can't for about a week. Valentine's day is the busiest day of the year where I work... Thanks guys!

My guy and I have been over the vacuum lines a couple times. Any other ideas?

So my dad picked up a subaru loyale to fix up our old one, we believe they are both 1994 engines. Everything went smooth swapping the engines. We used the best from the 2 cars, fly weel, transaxle, engine, oil pump, valve cover gaskets, timing belts, exhaust manifold, and a new battery. We took our sweet time to make sure everything was put together the same way that we pulled it apart. We filled the car up with the essential liquids, gear oil, engine oil, coolant, power steering fluid. Like I said, everything was running smooth. We got to the point of starting the car. We can get it to start by turning the key, but the only way it runs is by holding the gas pedal down, to get it past 1500 rpm about 1500- the car sputters to a die. 1500+ and the car runs smooth like it should. We think that it is a spark plug problem. But we checked all 4 and they are all giving a spark. We took the distributor apart, everything was a little dirty, easily cleaned. Still no change. We aren't to the point of setting the idle screw, because the car won't even idle up to 1500 rpm! It should idle about 700rpm. Or so our subaru manual recommends. So the car starts, sputters, then runs after 1500 rpm, dies below 1500 rpm. HELP