cj3waker Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 (edited) Hey guys, I read a bunch of old posts but registered an account here as I am still at a loss, and hoping someone smarter than me might know what's up. Old family subaru has been sitting for a bit, I don't know the whole story but I think it was running til parked a few years ago. I trailered it back to my house to try and get it running. I've got it to where it will crank very hard, and run as long as you spray starter fluid into the throttle body, or it even self sustained off fuel leaking directly into the cylinders when I had the injectors pulled. Injectors were pulled, tested, and pop hard outside the vehicle Fuel system was cleaned and new filter and good fuel is making it to injectors, but no fuel is getting through them at any point. With key on all 4 injector leads are reading 12v. I have yet to get any injector to spray from a key on or keyed start, only when bench tested outside the vehicle. Resistance of the injector leads back to the battery ground were 4/4 ~1ohm on the ground side. The ECU is reading 0 codes....which seems....suspect Now Reading P0201-P0204 (injector circuit open) anyways I'd appreciate any help Thanks, Chris Edited February 22 by cj3waker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj3waker Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 (edited) Redid a bunch of grounds and it will fire now. Has a hard time starting without starting fluid but sometimes will. Idle is verrrrrrry rough and it is stall happy and hard to start again. I shimmed the throttle to about 1800 RPMS and it will cycle up and down to about ~1000 and back. Sometimes it will do it for 10 mins sometimes it will stall in 30 seconds. When it stalls and sometimes on starts it goes into straight chugga chugga chitty bang bang mode, Torque won't read RPMs when it's doing that but I bet its 100 lol. I'll post a vid of this shortly. https://youtube.com/shorts/zbMP1h83yhI?feature=share Just ordered plugs and wires, and am gonna pull the timing cover tomorrow. If I end up buying a timing kit is the CA vs non CA thing critical? I believe this is a CA subaru Edited February 24 by cj3waker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_freddo Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 AFAIK a timing kit is a timin kit. Just make sure you get a phase 1 or phase 2 kit as needed - and ensure you’re getting the correct tensioner design as they swapped in the phase 1 era and ran with that tensioner ever since. When you reconnect the battery and start the engine you shouldn’t touch the throttle - the ECU will change engine speeds as it works out it’s idle. I believe this is set as the engine comes up to full running temp. If it’s still stalling at times something else is at play. Clear and check codes again. If the fuel pump wasn’t replaced also consider this could be the issue. When a fuel pump dies it can do it randomly then start again, or it could completely dies. Also stale fuel can be problematic with getting the engine started. If it’s really bad you will smell a varnish like smell from the exhaust. Other thought with the poor idle is a sticky idle air control valve. Could be worth pulling and cleaning up. Do not remove the top cap as that’s the idle set from factory. Apparently you can adjust this once the engine is up to full temp to set the engine idle speed - but it typically doesn’t need to be touched. That’s all I can come up with - I hope some of it at the least is useful! Cheers Bennie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocei77 Posted Friday at 10:51 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:51 PM Make sure the cam sensor is not covered in muck. O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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