mikaleda

rockauto.com wants $65 a piece for front struts for my gl. i'm not going to spend that much on it i guess i will just have to do some educated guessing.

cool i will look into that i just don't want to spend a whole lot of money on this rig really. i am trying to save up enough money to buy the parts i need to do my head gasket on my legacy and this car keeps eating up my money:popcorn:

this may sound dumb, but i am new to struts. my 1980 gl needs front struts really bad. i want to get some out of a junker but, i don't know if they will be any better than what i have. is there anyway way to tell if the struts i am getting out of the junker are any good?

it sounds like a bad connection under the dash, possibly a ground.

are you talking about the main relay?

box end wrench worked good! thanks everyone for the tips.

cool good thing to know. thanks for sharing.

sounds like a fusible link.

if it is that far off it is probably a vacuum leak. i am not familiar with the ea82 do they have a vacuum operated spark advance? if so that is where i would start. your timing should be somewhere around 8 degrees.

i would do a filter before i messed with the tps. when you replace the filter run some more injector cleaner through it it again. running injector cleaner through a dirty filter will do nothing for your injectors.

i noticed the ticking at first but now that i have replaced the front oil seal and ran it (and also got rid of the rats nest in muffler ) they quit ticking and the engine defiantly has pressure now. this car has sat for three years so i have a project ahead of me i need a new muffler, ball joints and to finish the weber swap someone didn't finish and it will be a runner.

probably cats are alot in scrap because they have precious metals in them

don't mind me i am just posting so i can keep track of this thread. i have a 90 legacy too and i would love to get some more clearance out of it. :cool:

it sounds like he said that there was oil in the part of the valve cover where you access your plugs could there have been grounding out do to the oil? just a thought.

update. i went online and ordered a rebuild kit for my oil pump (it only took five min. to rebuild) and re installed but ended up being front oil seal. thanks to everyone for your help. p.s. i think the oil pump needed to be rebuilt anyway because as soon as i replaced after rebuild it actually built up enough oil pressure to start spraying oil everywhere (that's when i figured out it was the front seal).

i just recently had this problem, check your injectors. when this happened to me i ended up replacing the knock sensor, throttle positioning, fuel filter, and o2 before i finally figured out one of the injectors was shot. from the sounds of it you might have more than one out.

thanks to every one for tips i will post what i use to torque down the crank puly when i am finished

good idea i was worried about stuff breaking off like you said. i like the box wrench idea that should be flexible enough to bend before it breaks and i could really torque on it too. oh ya 987687 the reason i didn't try the starter to take it off i was worried about damaging stuff if the wrench slipped.0 i did try an impact to get the bolt off initially but it was an electric one and was not powerfull enough

i used a punch in one of the holes in the flywheel to break loose nut when i tried to torque back down it snapped.

i would try ultra copper rtv. that is what my parts store had in stock for the pump to block surface.

thats what i tried at first but i was using a cheapo so i might try a better one. i thought of a screwdriver to but the holes in this flywheel are so small a standard Phillips head screwdriver would not fit in the hole. am i just not looking hard enough? are there bigger holes than the ones i am seeing?

good tip i would not have thought of that. easy enough to do though i would just clean it at the same time as i change the filter.

cool i will try that thanks for the tip.

i just replaced a front oil seal in an 85 brat. i locked the flywheel through one of the holes, but the holes are so small i can't get anything substantial enough in them to lock it good enough to get the right torque on the crankshaft puly bolt. i keep breaking whatever i put in there, does anyone have a suggestion of what to put in these holes to lock it up good enough to get at least 40 foot pounds of torque on it?