Durania

Its most to do with a ground issue. On mine, there is a blue wire inside the dash on the left side of the steering wheel that was somehow making contact with the collumn. My best advice is to stick your hand up there with the motor running and try and wiggle some wires around until you have the expected outcome. My father wiggled some wires with his arm inside the dash about 3/4 the way and I watched the voltage meter while he was doing this. It helps to have a friend to help and a good deal of patience with this. What are your symptoms aba? Kyle.

Yes! We did infact use the zip ties to fix the wireing the dude I got it off wasnt the best person to do electical work and it looked super tacky. When I bought it my foot would get tangled in the wires underneath the dash. We secured them properly up inside the dash. It is infact, like driving a new brat. This is a great weight taken off my shoulders' to finally have the electrical issues in the brat fixed. Next thing is the wiper motor and the driver's side axle cause the boot is busted and I will be set. As long as my patience and love for this board holds true......

Ever since I bought the brat I had the issue of low voltage, dim lights, non-functioning fuel gauge, and a door chime that would only dong, not ding. I replaced the alternator still with little luck. My gauge cluster looked like this twenty four/seven. Me and my olde man yesterday after changing plugs, wires, distributor cap, and rotary button. After finishing up, we decided to take on the task of why my voltage just plain sucks. Previous owner believed it to be related to distributor bushings but, I refused to believe that. We traced the problem down to a small wire in the dash grounding out against the steering column draining half the voltage and making the voltage gauge read at half, like shown in the picture above. We reset the wire into a better spot by wedging a piece of my plug wire box up there and the results were immediate. My radiator fan blew like a STi turbo, my lights lit up like meteors, and my fuel gauge took its respective position at half a tank. I am tickled to death to finally have this problem solved.

I second the pics.

Good Lord:eek:

Which one will rust out first?

You should call and see if that dude still works at said dealership.

Kudos to them pretty blue axles.

The dude says its a garret turbo but the tag looks to say "Turbonetics"

Just buy a used STi and save yourself the headache.

This is the brat that was for sale on here a few months ago. Everyone in the southeast was contacting the guy trying to purchase it. Heres some pictures of it. The tailgate is the worst part on it, thank goodness. This one is my favorite even though it was taken with a cell phone camera.

Next time im there ill try and grab it for ya.

I prefer the white spoked wheels anyday. Unless its a set of gold enkeis.

Im sure you can meet plenty of single women in a mustang. Subaru's arent widley accepted as "lady getter's". Unless your driving an STi maybe.

I can get you the number to the junkyard its about 40 miles from where I live. Also I can give you the name of the guy to talk to and maybe hope he can help you out.

It would be hard for me to afford an STi while going to college, I plan on purchasing one when I get out. I have yet to work out some issues on my fuel gauge. I think theres a ground somewhere but havent got the chance to check things out. I appreciate you guys complimenting on my gauge cluster, I take great pride in my brat, that thing is my baby. Here are some more pics of the adventure today. I seen this in the junkyard as well as a better pic of the scavenger brat.

I assume the picture shows the windshield popped open and with about a quarter inch crack on the side. That is probably the cause of your dilemma.

I got up early this morning and decided to run to the local junkyard in hopes of finding a wind deflector for the passenger side t-top for the brat. Luckily the dude that runs the place has been friends with the family for years. I asked him if he cared if I looked around he said to me:"You know where all the subarus are better than I do, go have fun". Not being able to say "no" to this I decided to set out with my ratchet set and girlfriend's digital camera. Here is the only BRAT they have in the junkyard, sad to say its seen better days. I grabbed the piece I needed and noticed that it had something I had only seen on here. I considered grabbing it and the switch and selling it on here but would wait till a later date. I headed back down and asked the guy how much do I owe him for the piece, "I don't know what that is so just take it with ya". The response everyone loves to hear. There is a Subaru dealership about ten minutes from there so I decided to take GD's advice and try and purchase some plastic clips for the brat to hold my center caps on. $11.24 a piece talked me out of it for a while. I considered that since I was there I would have my picture made with an STi. Talking to the salesman a little more, I managed to talk him into letting me drive that black wrx as seen on the left side in the above picture. First time driving a turbocharged car and it made me believe in a higher power:banana:. Wrapped things up and decided to head back home on the way my brat hit 232K. A great sight anyday of the week. Hope you all enjoyed my narrative of subaru adventures in eastern Tennessee.

Its pretty bad being in the southeast. 70% of the board is located in the Pacific Northwest. Id love the idea of southern subaru meet.

My main question was if the turbo brat was still autotragic or was a dual range swapped over?

Bingo!

So what did you finally find to be the problem?

Make the wife/girlfriend eat more organic foods.

The bulbs that I got said 74 on them. I believe they were sylvania. About the size of a booger.

We should call that number and tell todd there was a major f-up.