oldmanscooby

Bought a wheel boss kit for 1987 R reg impreza non turbo but now not needed change of plan boss kit only no wheel included no horn push but have resistor to beat air bag light Looking for £ 25.00 and will add FREE subaru original tool kit in the deal cash sale Crawley West Sussex

17 mm size of centre nut so i read

centre steering wheel nut size s need to get right socket thanks

only strange thing is how two plugs came a tad loose on one side sure cured the problem though yesterday was first chance to give it some welly since owning it maybe just shakedown glitch but sorted so thanks for advice

UPDATE ====================================================================================================== turned out both left hand spark plugs were a little loose half a turn nipped up ticking noise gone didnt take the credit entirely luckily in asda at 06 30 am this morning bumped into an old school mechanic who diagnosed problem ========================================================================================================

will have a look sound of ticking sounds under the power steering reservoir

check oil levels regularly especially after longer runs and dont burn oil this ticking sound just appeared not overly loud with bonnet closed more pronounced bonnet open sounds like something touching but checked belt and seems ok only recently adjusted it thought dry bearing on alternator or something

1998 impreza non turbo looking into engine compartment engine ticking over mystery ticking around power steering pulley originally suspected alternator but ticking more to the left no oil leaks fan belt adjusted ok doesnt get any louder if you rev engine noticed left hand plug gap tops vibrating in direction of mystery ticking but right hand side not vibrating took left hand ones off individually and pushed down firm but there is minimum up down play on those on left engine not misfiring so caps must be well seated onto plugs any clues appreciated just came on about 100 miles into a 250 mile journey ======================================================================================= UPDATE Turned out both left hand plugs were a little loose half a turn nipped up and clicking noise gone =======================================================================================

happy with exhaust but same reason on long journey bit tiring but i just love that sound even looked at them mr gasket butterfly valves and electric cut out valves but a bit of noise never bothered me after years of straight thru 4x4 s etc

taken last week camera date not set

just a couple of scooby art pics.

Tried an exhaust bung today assuming might just knock a few decibels of the jap can but whilst i think it appeared better with some back pressure couldnt ever live with the exhaust note maybe that cracking n popping on over run needs to stay hence bung taken out and forgotten about forever Any one any input on bungs ?

welcome great forum to be involved with

the exhaust on when i bought car as standard headers cat converter a small 12 inch < silencer > then a straight through back box exiting 3.5 inch rear pipe so id assume not completely straight through so with some back pressure originally fitted apexi and on two identical runs it ran better without it but that was with apexi bolted direct to maf wheras i can now use a short 76 mm id silicon hose connection between maf and filter this leads me to wonder if it would make any difference if not apexi will be sold and idea shelved

sourced the right inlet adaptor for the new apexi laying dormant in its new box considering giving it a second fitting as before it was bolted direct to maf maybe this time round with new better quality gaskets it might show some improvement my theory is i have a fairly free flow exhaust fitted so the whole idea way back was just to improve the breathing without other mods will reset ecu after fitting