Hey yall! Just joined the Subaru crew with my '92 Loyale, Cherry. She sat for a year or so with a broken timing belt before I got hold of her and had a lot of somewhat "frankenstein" style work done by the previous owner.
Here's where I'm at:
Did timing belts, oil change, oil filter, spark plugs, checked all fluid levels, and replaced old fuel.
I had some trouble getting her started until replacing the fuel filter (old Fram filter leaked cloudy brown fuel when I cut it out).
After replacing the fuel filter it still usually takes a few tries before I can get her started and the idle is quite rough and can sputter out with too much throttle while cold.
Some warmup time will typically help the idle settle in and allow me to rev to about 3500rpm although I get lot's of backfire and sometimes the engine stalls coming back down.
When I try to put it in gear and ease off the clutch the engine feels like it's going to die immediately and will typically stall out with extremely minor load (backing out of an angled driveway, for example).
I was able to feather it out onto the street and get into second gear but it can barely get above 15km/h without some major finesse and painful noises.
My first instinct here is a fuel issue but I know it could be a lot of other things and would love any help yall can provide.
Cheers!
