Piggysniffer

Right peeps, what oil filters are we supposed to use, I just get a pattern one when I buy the oil, I'm hearing that we should only use the Subaru blue ones, but on googling that fact there are a lot of people saying absolutely don't use the Subaru ones as they are awful

Didn't need to as there was no cel on so the car still thought it had a working maf, if it was a case of the maf being a bit under par but not actually broken mine would have ran the car fine

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Yeah, I think that's the next thing to check tbh, possibility of tps sensor also, I've not had any dealings with the iacv or whatever it's called on a scooby roo so can't be of much help mate, I'm pretty sure it can be cleaned tho

Nice to meet ya mate, shame we didn't sort it, had to go home and polish my car after seeing yours lol mine looked awful

If you have a boost gauge it may show up as fluctuating boost as it does it, really is an easy job to do the waste gate arm, the ball ache is taking the turbo shield off which is a pain on its own, but you also have to take off the intercooler (I think) to get at it, I suppose the other thing it could possibly be is the boost solenoid and restrictor pill, maybe both could do with a clean with electrical contact cleaner, there's stuff on google for the doing of above operations, basically just connect your green connectors together under you dash/steering wheel/foot pedal area once you've removed solenoid, taken pipes off (remembering which goes top/bottom, with the connectors connected and ignition on the car will start cycling the fans and that solenoid will continuously open and shut, while its doing that you buzz the cleaner through it, and restrictor pill is in pipe coming from turbo snail (I think) and pipe needs to be removed and cleaner squirted down there to clean the pill/brass restrictor

Yeah same as mine mate

You can check wether the pumps working on a cold start by listening to it, it should sound like a Hoover for about 30-45 seconds and then the secondary air system solenoids should close and the Hoover noise should get louder for a few seconds as it builds pressure and then it should stop blowing/turn off, when this is done you can then disconnect the rubber pipe that feeds the secondary system from the snail of the pump while the car is running to make sure the solenoids have shut and that there is no exhaust gasses blowing back through the system (not good)

I didn't have a cel when mine was seized, but my ecu kept resetting itself every couple of days, yours could be waste gate flutter, that's another thing that will cause hesitation coming on boost as its trying to set the pressure but can't as its flapping open and shut, you can adjust the length of the waste gate arm to put a little more load on the Spring and if it is flutter due to spring fatigue that should sort it

oh, not sure, what years your car, would have to have a look at the number on the top to be certain

Now I don't know what to think .... 😆

that's cool mate, I can meet you in Worthing bout 10am tomorrow if ya want

I'm in Chichester, just thinkin wether I could meet ya half way or summat to try the maf

Who , me or will ?

I did also read that if your secondary air pump seizes up it can create so much load on the ecu that it can actually damage it and cause running problems

I have got a noise like that when mine starts pulling timing as it comes on boost, the only way I can describe it is it sounds like something moving/spinning is touching something else very slightly and it sounds like it's happening inside a tube, I know that sounds odd, but that's how it sounds to me, it may be that the noise is a product of the timing having been pulled tho, and not a reason for it, it's odd tho

Where bouts are you ?

I f@kin love you two lol

Good heads up there mate, thanks 👍

The unplugging of the maf test is pure garbage, it doesn't prove anything either way, it's another thing I have googled the cra p out of trying to diagnose my car When you unplugged the maf did the revs change at all, and did they change when you plugged it back in, did it put the cel on

Morning all does anyone know if the retractable load cover/parcel shelf from a newage wagon will fit a hawkeye wagon 🙄

haha, awesome

Ha ! And I suppose also my car probs ain't the best to take as an example lol

Nope, fixed air leaks didn't stop mine, nor did knock sensor, o2 sensor, maf, plugs, throttle body, electric throttle pedal, air filter etc like I say, I had months of it and I trawled the net for months, its a sign in ringland damage, it's a sign of bad avcs, bad plugs or gaps, fuel pressure problems etc etc, but the more I trawled the more a certain thing popped up and that was the transition of closed and open loop being a big factor due to the tune, and from what I can remember mappers I think were changing something to do with that altho as usual, you only have the people with a problem posting up mostly so don't really mean it's a hawk thing I suppose ? As 8 out of 10 hawk owners might not have it

I did air leaks religiously, and then found more so treble checked.... And found more.... Cable tied and clipped everything, thing is as these age the pipes harden and then leak a little tiny bit, but there are so many pipes on the engine that can leak and make up a rather impressive total leak, barring any holes splits or popped off pipes of course