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I'll give it a look twitch, I was negating that before because there was power (though no neg) to the coil and the starter was turning.

So today I give her another go, set the ignition to on and jump the starter while looking for a spark or some noise that makes me happy. so I tried jumpering the coil, no joy. making absolutly certian all my conections were good, nadda. jumpering again, nothing. making sure the disty was lined up right. nothing. Light a cigarette, spill a little beer on the truck accidentally, swear a little then kick the tire. Then I crawl in the cab, defeated, to pull the key out of the ignition and say to myself "self, you might as well, chances are you're an idiot and it'll work this time" so I decide to turn the key and see what happens before I give up. brup brupbruuump (insert violently shaking, and me being worried I did something horribly wrong. EA81's on a single cylinder start with nicer noises:eek:). I figure, I'll give it one more time it was making noises that were more than just turning over afterall... and if I did something wrong, it's probably already done. then... brum umumumum... I think the awesome noise was the disty being off a bunch the last time I tried it. Thanks for all the input. I'm going to look around one more time and make certain yet again nothing is lose before I trust her.

okay, so got my disty in the mail (thanks bratman18), and finally got around to putting it in, along with new schucks coil. I can't get a spark. Postive power to the coil, no negative. though my understand is that should be the way it works. pulling the disty and manually turning it while the ignition is turned on produced nothing. hooking up a timing light (trigger tied back, after I remembered I needed to) and trying to start got me nowhere. How can I go about just testing the distributor (ND)?

care to share the source?

So distributor maker is limited by coil right? If my coil choices are no name/pn (as far as I can tell) and msd, I'm not really limited as I should replace both coil and distributor, right? Any cheaper sources than the $300 kits for the pickup coil/Ignition Control Module/other awesome names? Also with all of these names, am I correct in I need to go shopping by picture? (some of those ignition control modules look significantly different) I'm looking for something like this one, http://www.napaonline.com/Search/Detail.aspx?A=ECHMP1206_0193302670&An=599001+101985+50068+2068002

That was my first thought today, popped the hood and yanked the air filter... nice and warm and gassy smellin. atleast that was how I noticed it icing up in my hatch a few years back. still might just be freezing up, although I let it sit (well, let it sit and tried to start it) for about 2 hours.

happened again, seems to be less fuel issue and more electrical issue. Couldn't get sparks outta the sparkplug wires.

she's running okay now, still a touch high on the idle rpm (I didn't do anything). the resistance in the pedal seems to be when the throttle engages the arm that pushes some rod that appears to mess with the choke plates. shined a flash light down inside the carb, no plastic... not sure where It'd get in there from. To the best of my remembering subarus ability I don't have that valve.

there's probably a few dozen threads out there, but my quick search didn't come up with anything. Figured I'd make a post while waiting for morning to pass before I got make a bunch of noise for my neighbors. yesterday while driving back from duck hunting the brat kept dying on me [weberized ea81] the first time about 5 minutes into driving, tried getting her going again while moving under momentum and that didn't work, pulled over and she fired right back up. Just wrote that off as a fluke. Then again about 5 minutes later while on the freeway, pulled to the side and fought with it for a few (fighting with = simply trying to start it). It did start, and I drove the shoulder about 1/4 of a mile. after that a few times of pop the hood, look confused, fiddle with stuff try starting for 10 minutes, it starts and drive a few hundred feet to have her die on me again. then she fired back up and got me home. Noticed what I can only describe as a gassy/oily/burning electrical smell in the cab... sorry can't describe it better. Heck that could've just been memories of the lingering smell that was in my hatchback (I'm a recent born again ea81 owner). now she's backfiring a bit on shutdown, and idling at 1200 (the day before it was 7-800). and the gas pedal seems to mechanically stick at 3/4, requires a little extra umphh and functions past that (could've been there previously, just noticing now, could also be that I was wearing waders). The previous few days I've noticed a little extra gassy smell from her. any ideas before I play blind idiot with a screw driver? edit: I should add dying was, running good then suddenly the engine stopped, no loss of power or slow death... almost like I pulled an important wire or something.

very cool, nice to see parts of my heap doing something good.

I'll work on it, i have finals this week... time is in short supply, and i still have to find it.

and here's the pic. (there was a big ol trooper on the other end) warn (I think it was) had this nifty thing with chains and a channel so you could hook the winch around a tree then put the hook on the cable on you're car... lazy mans come-along.

happy birthday scott... gonna grow up now? sorry i didn't make it out this week, girlfriends sick...

my car's still in some pain from christmas break (i broke it over the break...hehe) however, it looks like i'll be riding with my boss (red trooper guy) will be going so i'll ride with him...