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  1. i agree with nipper, your AWD unit is toasted... i do own a H6 and im having the beggining of torque bind...  when accelerating i have a slight vibration on 1st and 2nd then 3rd and 4th is good...  you'll need the AWD unit serviced ie all new clutches,  sol c and must must must check the gears if they are eaten up you'll have to do it as well...  DONT EVER TOW A SUBARU LIKE THAT AGAIN UNLESS IT IS ON A FLAT BED

  2. I thought this might relate to a vacuum leak in the cruise control affecting the feedback loop for the cat. monitor (similar to what Ivan is saying about FPR), but doesn't a '05 model have an electronic throttle?

    nah the 05 baja is still drive by cable... 

     

    Not sure what you mean by bad "Cell battery"?  Do you mean a cell in the Battery?  Do you mean the CEL?  Is your Cell Phone interfering with the catalytic converter when the battery gets low?  Pretty sure that the FCC would like to know about that.

     

    Seriously though, If the O2's didn't fix it, it likely needs a CAT.

    bad cell batteries are known to give bad feed into electrical systems, but i just tested the battery and it is good

     

    HAve you tried using a vacume gauge to see if the cat is functioning porperly. You can be on the hairy edge of something failing, a vacume leak, exhaust leak etc. Sometimes you have to wait for things to get worse before you can really pin down an issue. Does the CEL go out with the cruise control turned off?

    no vacuum leaks nywhere... cel stays on after it comes on  even when the cruise is turned off...

  3. Well we just can't have that type of behavior now can we. :-p

     

    Double check your connection on the ECU, and make sure the ground for the switch is somewhere on the transmission case, or that it goes to the main harness ground point on the intake manifold.

     

    doubled check everything... reconnected the ground to the ground point as you stated and still got the P1101... now when i spliced it to the pin 82 should i cut the wire and have that going into 82 or dont cut the wire?

  4. You need to ground one of the pins on the ECU to make it stop looking for the TCU. There's no difference between AT and MT ECUs.

    It looks like it's supposed to be Pin 81. I can't find the ECU pinout for 97, but that's what it looks like from the wire diagrams.

    That should get rid of the IAC code if you have it.

    The Neutral switch code can be cleared by either grounding pin 82, or by hooking up the wire on pin1 of the inhibitor switch connector to the neutral switch. and making sure the other wire on the neutral switch is connected to ground on the engine or transmission case.

     

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    The neutral switch just tells the ECU when the trans is in gear. It changes the way the idle control valve reacts when throttle is applied. Otherwise it thinks it's in neutral all the time. Or something like that. I'm too tired to explain it the right way.

     

     

    this worked well.... so far 150 miles and no p1101 :banana:

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