Immobiliser emulator out there to suit some of our Subarus?

[Steptoe's photos]

I am wondering if there are any immobiliser emulators out there that will work in bypassing suspect factory immobilisers.

I have had an intermittent, momentary engine cut that seemed to be load sensitive at times, BUT now going over the whole thing chasing the issue, other tiny things are happening, to the point I now have a no start, cranks over but no start.

The 1999MY EJ202 Forester AUDM owner manual says you can do a check of immobiliser function by observing the key shaped light anti theft warning light with just the IGN ON position. If it glows (or flashes) we have a problem. Mine checks out OK. But, due to no start, I need to rule more sheisse out of the equation.

At this stage, I won't be doing an EJ conversion to my EA81 bodies

[Crazyeights]

A decent scan tool and DVOM in the right hands are the first things that you will need. Like they say "some diagnosis required".

Edited April 30, 2023 by Crazyeights

[Steptoe's photos]

These things use an OBDii socket for the Subaru Select Monitor access, the manual by Subaru refers to it as the OBDii socket, but got no evidence they were OBDii compliant at this date. I can very occasionally get access to a Snap-On tool , about 2019 version. It would not be in the right hands   although I once put it through a 92 wire TT Supra ECU for some amazing insight to it working. Very happy sitting in my EA82T without an ECU as it is  !! 

 

Oh, DVOM another acronym for a DMM ?  Been doing that before the beast decided to play up on me 200 km later. If it ever runs again, I plan to patch into those three wires to see what traverses along them. Already picked out matching colours with correct trace colour for the patch

Edited April 30, 2023 by Steptoe's photos