turboxtman

I'll keep trying guys , I'll let ya know what happens next time i get a day to work on the soob. thanks

last time i connected the green plugs and wasnt able to start the motor it filled my cylinders with fuel and then was hydro locked with fuel until i took the plugs out and threw all the gas out by cranking motor over, so i guess i will have to figure out some other way to do it .. on another note ive tried turning dist both ways as far as it can turn after setting flywheel to 0 and pointing rotor to #1 and it did nothing , so i guess i need to move flywheel by hand ... i dunno

to set the timing that way you say I have to start the engine , but my engine wont run... I guess i will have to remove the distributor turn crank til flywheel shows 25 and then reinstall dist pointing rotor to #1 ?

ok cool, so to change it to 25 btdc i turn flywheel to 25 then move rotor to point to #1? i think ur right about stuck injector on #3 cylinder... how do i check fuel system pressure? and the car was almost empty so i added a gal or so of new fuel

so with a lil research I found that this is the knock sensor ? can someone take a pic of their knock sensor plug so i can tell which wire to hook onto which post I guess i will have to use barrel connectors since its seems i'm missing the harness top... If this sensor is bad would it not allow car to start ? I'm getting so frustrated , I got good spark after replacing coil and plugs, getting fuel to the engine cause i checked in front of filter and know for sure its at least getting to cylinder 3 cause it was flooded when i checked for spark, but car wont even sputter or fire at all and its driving me bananas:banana:

lol i was getting ready to install a battery shut off switch , well after i'm able to get the car running lol,,,

the "sensor" is between the throttle body and the flywheel opening to check timing

installed new sparkplugs and ignition coil and car still wont fire sounds a little bit closer tho , I was looking around engine to see if anything was disconnected and noticed a sensor or something that someone had added butt connectors to so i lifted one of the wires going to it (black and white) and it was barely sitting in the connector. so it prob wasnt working at alll ... would this keep the car from starting ?

that fixed it sorry for being such a soob noob

yea do yourself a favor and look up mile's art of subaru maintenance videos on youtube, they were a real lifesaver for me

ok i'll look tomm for that switch cause all i had seen was the switch to left of steering wheel , thanks

I checked the other spark plugs and the rest either had very weak yellow spark or no spark at all , so i replaced the coil with an accel coil and i'm getting alot better spark and its sparking on all plugs. It got dark before i was able to gap all the plugs and try firing it up again tho. I also discovered when i was testing the #3 plug that there was alot of gas in the #3 cylinder as it came shooting out of the cylinder into my fathers face when i was cranking it and he was watching for spark.... do u think the injector maybe stuck open ? or maybe it just had gotten flooded by trying to turn it over when it has really bad spark ?

my running lights turn as soon as i put the battery teminals on , they stay on even after i go press off on the button... any ideas?

yes thats what i meant

ok so heres update , cam timing was good... when i checked both sets of III notches on the flywheel the cam notches lined up , when i turned flywheel to 0 the rotor was pointing away from #1 cylinder so i lifted distributor and turned it to #1 but car still wont crank . Was I supposed to connect green connectors before i lifted and turned distributor ? I guess next step would be to check the rest of the sparkplugs and make sure they are all getting spark (I had only checked #1 plug) distributor might be bad? I can tell that the rotor button and dist cap are new, and the plug wires are new, the sparkplugs could prob be replaced tho p.s. sorry about run on sentences I never really paid much attention in english class, the girl that sat in front of me was waaaay to hott! lol

northwet, rotor is still keyed but it turned well when i cranked car ,,, and miles i bought it in almost perfect cosmetic condition from a kid that was gonna scrap it he said that he thought it was a carb prob but apparently he had no clue what he was talking about because it fuel injected, i can only assume also that he tried to fix the timing belt as it had a made in mexico timing belt and someone had also marked on the cam pulleys where they were supposed to line cams up , tomm im checking the notches on the fly wheel ... i was looking on the front of the motor for the notches until i just watched your video

my 86' turbo xt has 56k original

i'm gonna go ahead and tear the whole front of the motor off so i can see the marks on the flywheel and make sure they are lined up and time it all from there if they are off... were the timing belts that came from factory on these cars made in mexico or would that mean its been replaced before and possibly timed wrong ?

rotor turns freely when dist cap off, i took sparkplug out of #1 cylinder closest to front bumper on pass side ? i used straw and im almost certain that its tdc now and the rotor button is pointing away from #1, do i need to loosen and lift dist then turn rotor until it points to #1 then push dist back in and tighten it ? or do you think the passenger side timing belt is broke ? when #1 is at tdc where are the marks i need to look to make sure they are all aligned? all i can see is like 7 indented circles on a pulley...

btw i checked the codes , not sure if i did it correct because when green wasnt plugged in and also when it was plugged in i got the same code 12 and someone said that just means system is ready ?

i moved the distributor to other positions and it still wont start , so im gonna go out and check that the plugs are in right firing order

i just bought a 86 subaru xt turbo for $500 and i cant get it running , the car cranks but won't fire up i thought it was starving for fuel cause i couldnt hear the fuel pump when i turned the key so i jumped the pump with a 12v batt and its working , i then did some research on this site and found out when i connected the green connectors it would pulse fuel pump so i removed the fuel line in front of the fuel filter (which is new btw) and i'm gettin fuel the the engine when i connect greens as i put a bottle on end of line to see if it caught fuel.... so my next step was to check spark , i pulled one plug from front left side of motor and am getting good spark there , do i need to check all the other spark plugs now ? or would a good next step by loosening the distributor and moving it back and forth to see if it will start in a different position ? anything else i should be looking for ?