Well I purchased this thing on Friday and have had my first problem,

 

She fires but will not run, When I pulled in last night she was idleing fine, althought there was loss of power on hard accell. any Ideas?

 

I'm gonna try a tune up.

lots of ideas......how old is the gas?

is the check engine light on? check for spark, fuel, and compression or proper timing. one of those is missing.

 

my first guess is the coolant temperature sensor (located by the thermostat housing). i have a permanent fix for that issue over at the subaruxt forum. a new sensor won't fix it properly, that's not the problem. find out which of those items above applies and we'll move on from there.

that coolant temp might be possible because The I noticed the connections are corroded, I'm gonna get some coke and clean the connections.. I also had a problem with fusible links yesterday, someone had put a green in the black spot in the box, and the green was really worn. (replaced with a black) but I had loss of power under accel so I'm wondering if maybe I'm looking at timing belts.

CTS is very common, but after that i would not keep "guessing" and throwing stuff at it. the Check Engine light shoudl come on and you shoud get a code (i think 22) for the coolant temp sensor - so check your codes like i mention below.

 

there are DOZENS of possibilities, i doubt it's your timing belts. that's why you need to answer the questions...remember, we can't see it, hear it, touch it, smell or anything. even after owning more than 20 XT6's diagnosing over the internet is still hard, give us information and answer questions.

 

check engine light ever come on?

check the codes in the trunk - this is EASY - there's no reason not to look, pop the trunk and count the flashes of the green LED.

 

after that - check for spark and fuel.

 

how old is the gas?

My money is on the fuel filter - classic symptoms. Idles fine, runs OK but can't get out of its own way.

Yep, I'm at work now so I can look at it, I hate this stupid Honda Stealership, Just had to Mark down a gas cap for a customer from 38.95 to 15.00 Dollars because another dealership had sold her one 7 months ago for that price!! (didn't want a customer Complaint)

 

Had a CEL yesterday when the Fusible link went. but it did not come back after replaced cel.

how familiar are you with subaru's? if the CEL comes on again, immediately get the code in the trunk. on an XT6 - as long as that CEL is on the green LED in the ECU is flashing the code for you, all you have to do is look at it and count.

Fixed!! Sprayed the maf its clean as a whistle and re did the Temp sensor and it is running again although I noticed that the Throttle cable needs to be replaced and the waterpump to!