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Sweet cheers dogma. I'll just tap from the in side of the foglight side of it. Found a whole heap of wires undrr the dash with an inline fuse that doesn't seem to go anywhere, looks like it may have been for the jap toll box road pricing thing.

Ah no worries cheers for the offer i'm thinking of using as little as possible on that side and putting the little switch box on the firewall The fight resumes tonight when i get home

Boo i know, it's a ball ache to get to as i have to remove the cubby box thing. i was halfway through testing all the wires under the dash when my multimeter died on me, it's already been tapped into to run the rear fog so i'll hook it up tomorrow and see what happens. Gauge pod should be at home when i get back from work too

Forigive me if i'm being really stupid but i guess the wire going to the parking light switch is perm live ?

'Records Management' posh title for Archivist or if you filter it down i'm a bloke in a van that delivers boxes of paperwork, basically i do the whole lot, drum up business where i can look after 25000 boxes put them away scan stuff pull it and deliver it, invoice my customers and much more, believe it or not i work for a national company but i'm the only person within the group that does what i do so subsequently it could be so much better given a bit of investment but the main focus is on other things, at the end of the day it's a job i enjoy what i do and who i meet

Big thanks to gambit and his family for the hospitality yesterday :) Good day out bar the sunburnt heed and driving home wondering why my fuel gauge was dropping like a stone only to find i'd had my non working aircon running for the duration haha !

All being well i'll see everyone tomorrow :)

Don't mean to hijack the thread but... antilag ! Yes please mmm

Forgit to add, is an ethelyne glycol antifreeze suitable as i've a load of it in the basement

After two day monitoring cold level seems to be halfway between min and max on ex tank and hot is on the max line. This sound abiut right ?

Fingers crossed i want to come out to play on sat :) just had a drive out on a mixture of roads and everthing looks ok i'll just keep an eye on it

Spent an hour uderneath car and generally trying to work things out. Topped up resivior and leveled expansion bottle from cold started car up rad cap off nothing untowards squeezed bottom hose for ages loads of bubbles came out continued to top up. Repressurised system ran for a bit fans kicked in bottom hose got hot no leaks from anywhere underneath. Temp gauge stayed where it always has Bit of white smoke think its condensation so off for a test drive, hopefully it's all good fingers cossed

Haha. Yeah i nipped home on me dinner to see what i could see. Bottom hose appears to go into pump just off centre to the right as you look at the car. I reckon once i've removed the undertray i will be able to see if there is any water leakage from the pump housing as it's easier to see from underneath don't think i'll have to remove the belts either : ) The chap says as the rad had to come out check condition of the bottom hose and fit while i'm there I take it gravity will play it's part and the water will leak from the bottom if there is any

!Removed! ! I'll take under tray off and see if anything drips or i can see leakage from there. Which aux belts is it ? A/c and ps ? I really didn't want to start puling everything apart

Miggis that is correct :) once i have the more pressing issues sorted i'll attack that

The car has lost a little water overnight Spoken to hebden bridge subaru on phone today and the have said check water pump as i've had all the belts changed. And some times this causes the pump to fail. Or leak, How easy is it to get the plastic surrounds off to see everything ? They also said a sniff test won't show much up on subarus. Something about water to water pressure so if the gasket does go more likely to have over flowing expansion bottle.and general badness but not much coolant loss. I'm hoping it's something cheap ish as opposed to engine out job. So i'm gonna hav the car on stands tonight follow the advice he's given me anout expelling any unwanted air and check the water pump

Cheers guys, one last thing beforw i head to bed and have horrible nightmares. Which hoses need to come off for the belt change ? I've been downstairs and run it for 10 mins it got warm and the top hose was hot. A few little bubbles appeard in expansion which makes me think air lock too. I'll check the levels in the morning and if needs be put heaters on and burp the bottom hose see if that fixes the problem

update, car sat for a couple hours, under rad cap is full but it's drunk just under an inch from expansion bottle, if filled it up and am going to let it sit all day and walk to work, check it again in the evening that way i can be sure there isn't an external leak, i've just scared myself silly by googling head gasket failure, car doesn't smoke and there didn't appear to be anything in the oil so fingers crossed

sorted wiring (i think) i want to keep the dummy light stock sender and just put a pressure one in has anyone got any experience of these ? http://rspec.co.uk/b-gauge-adaptors-b/subaru-adaptors/subaru-remote-oil-pressure-dual-sensor-adaptor-remote-kit i'm assuming i just undo original sender screw this in then replace sender at the end of the tee and after market sender on the side ? sorry for all the questions, i don't want to take everything appart only to find out i'm short ! haha

how full should the 'radiator tank' (one with the pressurized cap) be ? seems fine touch wood i'm gonna go check it now it's been sat for a couple hours

Just found me expansion tank empty. Should i be worried ? It was full when i bought it in june now the cars had all it's belts changed at start of month so could they hav not topped it up after service ? There's been no sign of leakage parked up no mayo n oil cap and the temp gauge hasn't ever gone above half way. Just stopped and bought some de ionisd water topped back up. Off to dentist so i'll check what th leves are like when i get back out. Am i being over paranoid ?

Tell me about it! Turning out to be a righg ball ache locating suitable places to tap into wiring. So far it's the two wires that go from foglight to ignition for ground and 12v acc power now i've just got to find the right perm live one. If the clock wasn't mounted in the headliner this would have been easy and done already

cheers for the measurements totally pointless though as i tried removing the cubby box this evening and found out that the air vents are attached to it so it's a none starter :(

cheers, from what i can see using my basic electrical knowledge i need to locate and tap into these top three and a ground then i'll be laughing, 12v constant, black/white to white ignition harness 12v ignition wire black to green ignition harness 12v accessory wire black/blue to yellow ignition harness if i'm wrong someone please shout. i was gonna use the clock loom but i can't find where it disappears into the headliner which is annoying, i may just cut the clock wires at source and splice the gauge into it and run it back down the a pillar

Just having a poke around to see where to run the oil pressure gauge from, can anyone tell me whats what with the wiring ? All the loom under the dash has little grey spots on the various wiring. As well as a mix of colours. I was hoping for solid grey red yellow black etc