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toomanynooks

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    Albany, NY
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    Subaru, Animal Crossing, STS9
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    My XT6 needs an exorcist
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    2019 STI // 1991 XT6

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  1. Sorry for the lack of updates, I suck i sent the car to a shop *cough* and they sat on it for a week before they said they wouldn’t touch it because the passenger side floor is rotted (I can’t see it from underneath, I’m trying to pull up the carpet, I got as far as trying to access the bolt inside the seatbelt assy but didn’t have an extension to reach in there and I had to go to work) thankfully I have a relative in Virginia who does welding and he’s agreed to work on the car for me and sort out the rust issues, then there’s also a shop in his city thats familiar with these cars (The Subie Guy) who I’ve talked to and I’m hoping to send the car to VA to get all of these issues tackled. There have been professional mechanics getting at this car for years and sadly if they couldn’t sort it out I don’t think I could get anything accomplished. On the other hand, I also have the service manuals and I’m attempting to go through those and learn myself on what’s what. Then I open the hood and stare at the engine like it’s a pizza. again I’m sorry to ignore this thread, I’m very skittish i can update again when stuff actually starts happening if anyone is interested.
  2. My first Subaru was an XT6. Regardless I always wanted another one. I’ve had recurring dreams about the freaking car for 20 years now. I’ve been busy with work and I’m gonna try to Putz with it this weekend.
  3. Tonight my plan was to take a gander at the exhaust and figure out why it was so loud, plus the coolant temp sensor because according to my research & receipts it may need attention instead I stuck to what I’m good at (not great but passable anyway, I know enough to HATE swirl marks) I gave her a wash & wax and cleaned the filthy interior... granted the exterior was also filthy. (I also followed a redditors suggestion to try water remover & fuel injector cleaner) This poor car was COVERED in pine needles and tar... tar is still there unfortunately, but my heart aches for the dirty girl. If I ever let my STI get that dirty please shoot me. edit: tomorrow I want to drive it to work, but first I want to take a decibel reading of the exhaust and see how legal or illegal it is. I’m also going to get a compression tester and try to see what’s going on there. I’ve also decided to lower my standards for my short term goals with this car. It’s been running like hot garbage for eight years apparently. Right now I’m desperate to get it to idle and quiet down the exhaust so I’m legal, and hopefully get it to pass inspection. I’ll attempt to sort out the other stuff next year, after the holidays when I have money again.
  4. That’s what I thought about the water, but I’m both new and paranoid. Thanks again i plan to head to the store tomorrow for a compression test kit as well as some other items as well as make a few phone calls. I really want to drive it to work just once, but the exhaust is so loud and I REALLY don’t want to get pulled over. It didn’t even occur to me that I can use my watch to get a decibel reading... doh
  5. Here’s the girls together! Best friends!
  6. I’d like to make a thread about my car too. I call her Christine because she is the 13th Subaru I’ve owned, and she is haunted and scary lol I already started a help thread But I figured I’d make a thread here so I can post more nonsense lol Link to pics and info on repairs performed by the previous owner over the last few years: https://imgur.com/a/50xmXpv and here’s a longer idling video I’ll come back to this later because I’m at work right now
  7. Sorry for the lame update but I kicked the STI out of the heated garage so I can see what’s doin with the XT6 (as if I know what I’m lookin at, ha) and clean it up good because it’s filthy and salty and I actually know how to clean a car =) i did also take another idling video All I did was pull it into the garage and it stayed running long enough for me to take a 2 minute video and didn’t die. Silly Christine (I named her Christine because she is the 13th Subaru I’ve owned and she is haunted and scary. Plus it’s an awesome book/movie), why can’t you always idle like that? There’s water coming out of the tailpipe... condensation or something worse? Also, should the oil pressure gauge be reading over halfway? (It’s funny to me how oil press & voltage gauges used to be common but you never see those anymore) hopefully I will have a substantial update soon
  8. Wow thanks very much for all of that info. I would have more coin buckets to throw at it, but right before I bought this car I bought a new STI and put winter wheels & snow tires on it. And now the holidays are coming up and they’re also expensive... i also have service manuals for it, although they’re dated 1988... I don’t think there’s any difference though (my first subie was a 1988 XT6, though I was 17 years old when I had it and I knew even less than I do now, lol) thanks again, you’ve given me more subjects to obsessively google and take notes on keeps me occupied though so I’m not complaining
  9. It’s the 2.7, ER27 if memory serves. (I mean it’s definitely an XT6 with the original engine) oh boy what have I gotten myself into? Haha my preference would be to make this car as original as possible, but if not, so be it. I’m not giving up either way (edit: what I mean to say is, if I need to go the restomod route I will)
  10. Let me preface this by saying I don’t know a thing about cars and I tend to be long winded. anyway, recently I bought a 91 XT6 with the manual transmission. I’m technically the 5th owner, but the person I got it from didn’t do much to it nor did he have it very long. The person before him (who I will refer to as the previous owner) had the car for 8 years and did $3k worth of work to it. P.O. stated that the car “runs rough and has since I purchased it.” anyhow, the car is hard to start and I need to pump the gas to get it going (as if it’s carbureted). It will idle for a minute and then die. And to be honest, to me it sounds like a frickin lawnmower. I can drive it, but I need to keep my foot on the throttle when it’s not in gear otherwise it will die. Crazy I know, but I drove it 4 hours to get it home and it definitely ran rough, I could feel it bucking & misfiring, but as long as I didn’t let it stall out... I made it home. Also, the muffler was replaced almost a year ago, but it is currently very loud anyway, yet it’s hardly been driven. I have a long list of work performed by the P.O. and it looks like they touched upon all the normal idling issues (that I have read about on here anyway), coolant temp sensor, MAF, IACV, timing belts, head gaskets, etc etc. (the imgur link at the end has the list of all the work done) Im hoping it’s a simple issue but considering all the work the P.O. did. on the car and the fact that it’s been running rough the whole time, I’m a bit nervous... Sorry to ramble, but I wanted to include as much info as possible if I’m gonna ask for help here. I’m considering taking it to the Subaru dealer, but I don’t know if they’re gonna even know what to do with this weird thing and I’m nervous about how much it’s gonna cost me if I do that. Ideally I could find someone who knows these cars to look at it. Im in the northeast. I saw a thread on here about how the timing belts can commonly be installed incorrectly and I’m wondering if that’s the case. The 2nd owner bought new belts before selling it to the person in Maine, (Which COULD explain “runs rough and has since I purchased it” if they were put in wrong?), yet that’s a lot of people to be working on it and not catching any sort of error. Where should I go from here? Link to pics and repair info, and a short running video: https://imgur.com/a/50xmXpv
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