grasshoppak

So I will borrow a timing light to see what it says in the next couple days and I'll let everyone know

that's the part I didn't understand either because he said that nobody has touched it and it just died on him leave his house he pulled it back to his yard for over a year and that's where it sat until 3 days ago and I thought that it was weird when he just picked up the distributor just enough to rotate the rotor back towards #1

what is the average idle rpm for these , because in park and neutral its about 800-100 then as soon as i put it in drive the rpms drop to bout 1-300

I get that these are not very powerfull engines but and by hills im only talking "MAYBE" 5-15 degree slopes, i cant fathom that i would can only go 10mph up it when i got traffic going 60+

What would be the correct procedure to set time correct , just incase we did mess it up?

It has a new cap and rotor put on it, i think the timing is correct because when we were orginally messing with it we undid he dist bolt and slowly moved it around as much as we could then it fired that is how we were under the assumption the timing was messed up.

Hello everyone i am in need of some help, im new to the subaru world and i just picked up a 84 4wd gl wagon, and the guy told me that it needed just a fuel pump , well i changed the fuel pump out, stupid of me for now follow my own diag steps, anyways wasnt the fuel pump turned out to be the timing well the guy aka one of my inlaws that i bought it from said he knew what the problem was since it wasnt the fuel pump, well he rotated the engine over til tdc and picked up the distributor and rotated and set it back in, it took a couple of tries to find the sweet spot but in the end he got it started and driving, now on my adventure home which was an hour away, the car ran great on level roads but AS SOON AS an incline showed up i lost all engine power to where i had to slowly drop gears to keep the rpms up so it could make it up a hill at one point i was going up a decent hill on the highway and i could only go about 10mph in first gear up the hill, , if i left it in drive it would just back fire like crazy,am i looking at pulling the engine and doing a timing job or is it something much more simple, Im sorry for being so scattered , if i need to give any more info just let me know