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Update: Pouring a spoonful of gas got it started, and it stayed started. I noticed that it is pushing out quite a bit of black smoke. The front bumper on the car parked behind the Subaru turned black with soot. This makes me think I was right about that guy adjusting the wrong screw. And this would explain why the plugs were so overcarbonated. Now to figure out how to undo what he did. (And keep looking for the fuel filter.) <Luckily, I found this in the trunk so that may help Click to See Image> The car was my wife's grandmother's - she bought it new off the lot in ~1982 - and apparently she bought that book somewhere along the way. Thanks again to everyone.

Yes. That's the choke. It's for starting the car. The process is to set it by pressing the gas pedal, take foot off the gas, and crank. Repeat until start without feathering the gas like was being done in one of your videos. All you do when you do that is flood it out. This is NOT like starting a modern car. When you check for a burst of fuel, which gets sprayed at cold start from hitting the gas pedal and also setting the choke, it goes into the PRIMARY bore- the bore with the choke valve, red rectangle side in your pic.

does seem more like a relay.....

Bennie, Thanks for clarifying, I thought it might be the case rather than a variable reading that it was more of an on/off switch. I’ll try measuring the resistance needed to properly run the EJ sending unit to control my gauge as I found in This thread. The fans fit snug but with clearance all around, I’m happy with how it turned out. The two smaller fans were chosen to use space around the crank pulley as much as possible, and it all drops in without a fight or squeeze. With the desire to install AC and keep my cyclops light there just isn’t much room for pusher fans.

I use to pull the coil wire and crank it until the oil light went out. All the above opitons are good.

If you had used Assy. Lube, just start it. Easiest way to pump oil through it is to crank it. It is a little slow, but it works. If the starter solenoid has a 1/4 inch spade connector, get a piece of 12ga wire and crimp a female spade connector on one end and plug it in to the solenoid and hold the other end on the battery positive and let crank for 10-30 seconds. That way the key is not on, so no fuel to worry about. Many years ago, I made one with a push button switch and alligator clip for the battery and different connectors for starters. Wires were long enough I could sit in the seat and with the MT is first or reverse I could move it around.

They are supposed to have a double roll pin. I generally knock them out together. GD

Here in the US it is illegal to deny warranty for not using the dealer service department or parts. Subaru oil and filters are garbage BTW. GD