Subaru_dude

2 jeep trails got shut down during the past year... one of them was only 4 miles from my house and it was a damn good trail. Another in Talbott got shut down.... sucked, but it was something. Anybody know of any good trails ANYWHERE in E. Tenn?? Anybody on the board live in East Tennessee besides me? lol

may be a dumb question but..... what's a yoke?

gets louder when you turn right quiter to gone when you turn left (noise is comming from the right side) are you absolutely sure it doesn't get louder when you turn left instead of right? that just doesn't sound right to me..... but anyway, it sounds like a wheel bearing to me.

i replaced my transmission mounts to get rid of an annoying squeaking noise coming from under the car. I drove it after I got em in, no difference. Still made that annoying noise. After more proding around under the car, I think my gear linkage is tapping/scratching against the driveshaft. Why would it be doing this?

it's carbed..... and the plugs, wires, cap, and rotor are all new. haven't seen sparks at night though.... maybe it's the coil...??

Why does my car seem to have trouble when the air is really moist?(raining)... I seem to have less power when I'm driving in the rain. just me? I don't use the defroster much......

**Engine runs a bit warm when not on the highway (i.e. offroad)..hot as in 3/4 on the guage (normal is 1/3 to 1/2...right?) Caused from prob 1 and 2? **Bog with pedal to floor at low RPMs (<2500)....like going uphill on the highway and the RPMs dip below 2500 and there's a slight, yet noticeable, power drop, etc. No clue... mine runs a bit warm too... I don't really care if it overheats, I know where I can get a good engine for cheap. bog with pedal to the floor..... could be vacuum leak or a fuel pump. My car did that until I put a new one in and BOY.... that's where all those horses went, lol.

i think i roasted mine picking up 24 boxes with 6 quarts of oil in each one. I had the only vehicle working that day that had enough room to carry it all. And everybody there knew I towed a truck up a hill so they knew my car could do it.... but my clutch is all to ************ now. We were really busy that day..... and apparently the truck from O'Reilly never delivered the oil they were supposed to.

my friend filmed me jumping my soob about 20 feet across the ground over some train tracks. It was #^%#$ scary. But wow.... didn't even bottom out the suspension.

i work at express lane oil and i do basic mantainance (air filters, fill brake fluid, power steering fluid, change oil, stuff like that..) and I must say I hate American cars. They SUCK to no FREAKING end. late 90's Dodge, Chrysler, Oldsmobile minivans have the most rediculously difficult air filters to access. What stupid human being came up with the location of those things? I wanna let him know what's on my damn mind. I tell ya..... they do that crap so people take em to get em worked on instead of doing it themselves. it's such freakin bull.

what part of Tennessee are you from?

it's parked in the garage now so what does it matter. who knows why he was asking and who really cares. He was either a druggie with fake money or he really liked Subarus. Either way I think the threat is gone.

finally got freakin internet. updates...... pulled my dad's '78 Chevy outta some mud about a month ago...... no problem. my friends '64 Chevy stepside, which I think is a 4000lb+ truck.... it broke down at the bottom of our hill and I wrapped a towel around the front bumper and then wrapped a tow rope around it (didn't wanna cut it on the bumper) and hooked it on each side. pulled it 1/8 of a mile uphill in 4WD low. my friend wants to get rid of his truck and buy a Subaru now..... lol. I am, to this day, absolutely astonished that it managed to pull that freakin thing up the hill. AND no new sounds!!!!!!

hey guys..... computer's been down for a long time, should be back up within a week. car's been running good, lol...

old symptoms turning up again.... jumping really bad when on the throttle... last time the mechanic told me it was the accelerator pump. Do I need ANOTHER carb rebuild? and the smoke is getting worse..... new disty cap, plugs, and plug wires. Engine rebuild? Hope to GOD not... lol.

I'm having similar problems even though my carb was rebuilt about 3 weeks ago. I hate carbs.

thanks guys.... i got it running, lol..... well.... it still seems to smoke. do I just need to adjust my mixture? i'll do a compression test sometime during this coming week to make sure it's not my piston rings. Thanks for bearing with me guys.... lol.

I replaced them one at a time. Do you think pulling and tugging on the disty coulda done something? The old wires were on there pretty good so I had to jerk it around a little.... didn't think I broke anything though...... -Jordan

When my car actually ran.. lol.... my friend clocked it to 60 in about 9 seconds I think. Pretty slow, but it's not supposed to go fast anywayzz... lol.

ok... I put some NGK spark plugs in today with some NGK spark plug wires. The plugs are in all the way, the wires are on the plugs all the way and they're all going to their correct places. all the connections to the coil, all the vacuum hoses to the carb as far as I know are all connected. I spend 4 hours trying to figure out what the prob was... so here's the prob. It simply won't start... I think it's squirting gas fine cuz i had the cover off the carb and it was blowing the air/gas mixture out the top in frequent puffs... and it would ocassionally run for a sec and then just die. I put the old plugs on and managed to get it to idle... but it felt like it was running on 3 cylinders. what's going on? bad carb? bad plug? they're brand new..... and it struck me as odd that it would actually idle with the old plug wires on there. Thanks anybody who know what's wrong.

ok... my car was running fine today, and then i decided to put some NGK spark plug and spark plug wires in the car. every one goes where it's supposed to go, but the car WILL NOT start for anything. the #4 plug wire not being plugged all the way on is the only thing I can think of... but I'm pretty sure it's all the way on. Could the coil have decided to give up on me while I was changing the plugs or what? Jordan

loose castle nut maybe? bad bearing? i'm sure it has something to do with the suspension or wheels. Jordan

it's ok, i guess i can understand why it'd piss you off so bad having to put aside so much time to get it running right. been there done that.. lol.... you said you didn't touch the ground when you did the "jump" so this probably isn't your prob... maybe the oil pan got nudged a little and now it's plugging the end of the pickup tube? And yeah like Miles said... just recheck all the electricals. Jordan

mine's just carbed..... what's EFI?

HEY!!! what's your problem? How can you say that.... once a Subaru fanatic, always a Subaru fanatic. anyway... it's one of the pumps driven by the drive belt... I think it's the pump that's closest to the ground.... i THINK. Jordan