mtsmiths

Forget the turbo for your kind of driving. Just another complication and about as useful as a drag chute on a bulldozer for route delivery. Start a search for a late model 'Postal', 2.2L engine, A/T, right hand drive. Designed for exactly what you want it for. Somewhat rare, but they do turn up now and then (usually when someone loses their account). Yopu may have to go across the country to wherever one turns up.

Too many ... but I must say that I have run pulgs and wires to a point of failure on other cars, and have never had one act like this. The tune-up kit should arrive in today's mail. Fuel filter was the first thing I did. If it's still missing after the new plugs, wires, gaskets, etc. I'm gonna replace the coil. Just because if this was a '55 Chevy and I wasn't distracted by sensors, and computers, CELs, and digitezed read-outs from the dealer; I would immediately assume it was suffering from a coil with an intermittant internal fault.

Does no one have an idea what might be wrong with this thing? Yesterday it ran fine all the way to work (15 miles), then fine for the first ten home. By the time we were in Whitefish it was cutting out so bad we had to coast to the curb during each outage ... then it would catch and go another half block. I've ordered new plugs, wires, etc., but I've never had a car behave like this just 'cause it wanted a tune-up (in fact, I've never had a car behave like this, period) ... and ' computer learning curve' BAH!

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Took our Leg in for a deep scan this week. All the profiles are in spec except, the 'learning curve?" which was .038 above tolerance. Random onset miss, always a full cut-off EXACTLY every three seconds, followed by EXACTLY two seconds of coasting and a sputtering restart, then repeat, over-and-over-and-over-and ... sometimes for three or four minutes, once for two hours. Dump in a can of Techron for an instant miracle cure that will last two tanks of gas, then the cycle starts over. Only comment from the service dept. was that we needed plugs and wires, and had weeping valve cover gaskets, but even they didn't pretend that was the problem. No one seems to have a clue what is wrong ... Zone Rep? BTW - ordered parts from Johnphil from the vendor forum. Less than 1/2 the over-the-counter quote from the local dealer, and delivery in two days, instead of a five day wait at the store. Can you imagine a dealer NOT keeping 2.5L plug wires and plug sleeves in stock?

Good for you Armachek, sounds like you're done to me. Now, get back when you can't rurn off your parking lights, and we'll explain all about the 'Subaru Virgin Switch'. Welcome to the board.

We watch little network TV, we mostly stick to PBS and NPR, that said, I agree that the few current adverts I have seen are poor representations of the marque. I'm not 'quite' an octogenerian ... yet, and fact although possibly some on this board would consider me to be ancient, I still enjoy a good quick ride ... and I 'really' enjoy blasting through a good old fashioned blizzard. Subarus are 'quirky' so should the ads be. Although I got tired of Paul Hogan, the 'Outback' ads were pretty funny. A classic was our trip to Polebridge during an major snow storm last year. After driving through eighteen inches of unplowed and undriven powder for over thirty miles, we stomped into a very 'rustic' coffee shop/bakery, the 'Polebridge Mercantile'. As we tromped in with the Roo sitting outside in snow up past the axle centers, and tromping the snow off our boots, the proprietor looked out the window at our snow covered car aand asked, "Oh, have they plowed the roads already?" That by itself would have made a perfect script.

Bought my 87 GL wagon (Clack) with 130,000 miles on it and unknown age clutch (and brakes). When I sold it at 212,000 neither had been changed (and I had just driven it R/T Whitefish to Baltimore, and gone wheelin' with Moosens and a bunch of Pine Barrens crazies in the bargin).

The new EAA Sport Aviation mag has a listing of several of the LSA qualified sport planes, and ther are now a number of Storch derivitives, not just Slepcev's. I agree, that would be a fun plane, especially painted up likeField Marshall Rommel's ship. My next (especially if we move to WA) is an EA-8T powered SeaRey. I would also like to build an Erkanoplan for the sound, whoo-hoo, 100 mph, ten feet off the water, and it's registered as a BOAT!

DAL-1, Spezio Sport, also called the 'TuHoler' http://www.pilotfriend.com/experimental/9/spezio.htm Mine is slightly different, the builder eliminated the razorback turtledeck, it has a tendancy to blank the rudder in a slip. I have a drop headrest and a vertical fin like a Ryan STA. Power on my machine is a Lyc 0290D. I am in process of doing some rebuild and upgrade work, as my ship is twenty-five years old, but since it came from Tucson, AZ, and was always hangared, it's in good shape. I'm redoing the gear, adding electrics, repainting and shifting the W&B aft (mostly by eliminating the metal prop and getting a wood one). Know anyone who needs a perfect Sensenich 72/58? It's been inspected and yellow tagged, and they can have it certified repainted, or mirror polished and back only painted.

Well, we done it. The Pretty One and I are proud owners (along with our daughter and son-in-law) of ten view acres and a house/shop/studio in Port Ludlow, WA. I guess that's makes us penninsulites. The property is divided into six lots, and we will probably do a boundary line adjustment and then build a retirement mainland home base on one combined lot. Not condusive to off roading, however. We'll be out for a short Christmas visit, but prolly won't have any time for FtF'es. Maybe next summer, when we fly out (if I get the dang airplane finished) for the EAA Arlington Fly-In. Anyhow, we're all as excited as kids on Christmas morning to start looking at the land configuration and start designing a new house.

I lived in Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii in the late '70s. Many of the folks who lived up some really horrendous coffee plantation roads started buying Subarus because they NEEDED 4WD, but gas was so gawd-awful expensive. When my wife and I moved to Tucson, AZ we went scouting for a ski trip vehicle at one of those covers-the-whole-fairgrounds used car wholesale events. I spotted a nice clean '78 4WD wagon amongst all the Chevy Suburbans, Dodge Rams and Ford Exploders. I asked the salesman about the car, and he didn't even know what it was ... so, I got it really cheap. We drove that car all over the west, loaded to the roof with kids, dogs, skis, and you-name-it, in all kinds of weather, and it never let us down. After moving back to Hawaii for a decade, we moved to Whitefish, Montana ... and, of course, started buying Subarus again.

1. Superior AWD performance that is 'invisible' to the driver, no matter what the conditions. Nothing goesin snow like a Subaru AWD. 2. Outstanding roadworthieness and handling in ALL conditions. I can easily lose the average Bimmer on dry windy roads. 3. Reliability, we are on Subaru No. 5, all have gone well over 150,000 with no major mechanical issues, one well over 200,000 (miles not klicks). 4. Affordability, both purchase and running (good gas mileage). 5. Good looks and styling, especially the post 2000 models. 6. Subarus are the unofficial state car of NW Montana. 7. Don't wanna drive a truck. We're in lower 48, but only 60 miles from the Alberta border, so you can use our data.

Well, for one thing you'll have some ham-handed highschool dropout scratching your fender and pouring excess gas all over the side of your pristine Subaru. "Fueling technician."

Judging from all the ones that rich local kids have totalled around here, it's pronounced (and means) 'wrecks'.

Ahhhh, the joys of a radiant floor heated garage ... both for our 'Roo, and my tender butt.

Ok diagnosticians, add this to the mix. Driving to Spokane all was well from Whitefish to Sandpoint, from Sandpoint (1/2 tank) all the way to Spokane the bucking and missing was the worst it has ever been. At Spokane I spotted a Standard station (we don't have them in NW MT) and filled up with Chevron Supreme (ouch!) AND added a can of Techron. This had cured the miss the very first time it happened last spring in Billings, when I assumed we had water or somesuch in the tank. INSTANT CURE! Missed as same for about thirty seconds, then smoothed out and ran perfectly. The car was parked outside at GEG for ten days. Came back from Mexico scooped a foot of snow off her, and drove back to Whitefish with nary a hiccup (good thing too, it was heavy snow all the way). I'm back down to a quarter tank, and will refill with local gas and see what happens now. I bought another can of Techron to keep in the car, but at about $8.00 a can, that isn't a viable on-going fix. Whadya think is going on here? Thanx, Smitty BTW, Mexico central Pacific coast was beautiful, my daughter's wedding was stunning, the surfing was excellent, the food, beer and tequila great, and we came home to 18" of fresh powder ... what could be better?

Keep me posted, heading up Big Mtn to get our ski pass pics today, then tomorrow to Spokane to catch a plane to Mexico for two weeks. First real 'vacation' in years ... usually it's just a layoff and unemployment. We sold the lifted Legacy, and I'm not about to drive halfway across Montana in the Sidekick I got for my local rig. But we can see. If it's sumer I could fly out in my homebuilt, it has a flat four ... a Lycoming.

Why, in the New Generation Forum, where else?

Welcome to the board, if there's on thing you can take away from here it this: Convince SOA to reintroduce a modern version of the Brat, you can then retire rich. Seriously, make the service department honest, you've all mostly got a very bad rep in this board. I also speak from personal experience, until my local dealership figured out that I knew what I was talking about (and hearing) they tried the most amazing hoodwinks on me.

If you have a "POP" sound in the rear of your Forester, you should be looking for a weasel in the wayback. Now, wasn't that simple.

Could be a brake caliper, a disk wear indicator (do Subarus have those?), dirt stuck in the brakes, a bad wheel bearing, a starting-to-fail CV joint. Take it to a self car was and really spray the helloutta the front brakes. If it goes away it was dirt and you fixed for $1.25, if it's still there someon'e gonna have to look.

As part of the deBrightonization of our 2000 Legacy I've added map and visor mirrors/lights. Power from both was pulled off the interior dome light.

The Russians built some REALLY big ones as troop transports, and concept plans include ocean liner sized versions to replace surface ships for high priority container shipping. http://aquaglide.ru/history_e.htm I told my wife that if we ver end up living on Puget Sound (we just bought a place in Port Ludlow) that I am going to build one to commute instead of a boat or airplane. The interesting thing is that they are registered as vessels, not aircraft, so you don't need a pilots license. They fly in ground effect (which equals one-half the total wing span), so if you want more height and speed you build a longer wing instead of adding horsepower. Can't you just see blowing past the ferry in one of these going a hundred miles an hour ... YeeeeHaw!

Well, as I've allus said: "There's no accounting for personal taste ... or lack thereof". Wanna bet the guy is a farmer?