SHE is ALIVE! Got my STI back up and running

diabloadsit

diabloadsit

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Well got back from Canada and on the way down stopped in at Evergreen and picked up my new Fuel Filter for the car.

Got home and started ripping everything apart. Guess what I found. It was indeed my Fuel filter that was the problem. Not that it was clogged but because it felt like taking itself apart in the tank of my car!

Regardless I put the new fuel pump in the car with the new fuel filter and she is golden. I did throw a CEL after she fired up though. Got the AP out and found it was an PO119 code. So used the AP and reset the ecu and reflashed my map back on the car. Took her for a spin.

Here is the pic of the fuel filter. I can blow though it and feel air coming out of the messed up o-ring spot. So I was loosing pressure though back into the tank.

Sometimes I do surprise myself at my badassness. Maybe I should become a Subaru Master Tech instead of my current job. LOL. Now if I could just get the parts to fix my motor.

Ohh, by the way I have my used Walboro pump with a brand new never opend install kit for it if anyone wants to buy it off of me. Will sell it for $25 picked up. Sells new for $100.

 
Yeah? The Walboro isn't the busted one? Is it the 255lph? Let me get in touch with my friend and I'll get back to you tonight.

EDIT: Oh, it was the filter that was bad.

 
i bet that's what cooked your engine!(long debate... i know) drop in fuel pressure= no friggn good.lol

glad you found it.

 
yeah that would definitely lean out an engine way too much which heats it up way too much which.... yeah you get the picture.. could have been the culprit. I love it when something that seems huge was easy.

 
Nice!
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i bet that's what cooked your engine!(long debate... i know) drop in fuel pressure= no friggn good.lolglad you found it.
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Woody I was thinking the same thing. There is another guy on iwsti that caught his in time. Tuner tried to do a tune and found that the car was running super lean and was pulling timing to make up for it. So the guy starts fishing around when he got his car home. Come to find out the filter was clogged. So he replaced it and went back for the tune and everything was golden. I am sure this has something to do with the motor. Car is running strong right now. Felt good when I drove her down the road.

 
Actually, if he doesn't want it ... I'll take it.
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Ok man just let me know. Have the pump and the kit. comes with a new sock and all new hose and clamps. I wouldn't use the sock it is pretty small. Not the same size as subarus. Guess this is well documented on iwsti.com that you shouldnt use the sock that comes with the install kit.

 
Woody I was thinking the same thing. There is another guy on iwsti that caught his in time. Tuner tried to do a tune and found that the car was running super lean and was pulling timing to make up for it. So the guy starts fishing around when he got his car home. Come to find out the filter was clogged. So he replaced it and went back for the tune and everything was golden. I am sure this has something to do with the motor. Car is running strong right now. Felt good when I drove her down the road.
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This scares me...... i think im going to ***** can mine soon.

 
The really good news for me is that when it decided to go all the way. I was at idle so it just sputtered out. Thank God I wasn't into any boost at all. That would have sucked to be advancing timing that much with that much boost then Boom no fuel when she really needs it the most. Then I would have had huge problems.

 
Yeah, he said he wants it. He's justdontcrash on here ... I'll try to remember to tell him to get on here.

 
Congrats on getting it working again! What are the remaining problems being discussed here? I either misread something or I'm out of the loop
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Wait, I thought the fuel filter was in the engine bay. On the drivers side shock mount...the canister that the fuel line goes through...

 
fuel filter replacement is a routine maint item, should have been done long before it clogged and made car go dead by side of the road. don't get me wrong, not trying to go nyahh-nyyaah, coulda-woulda-shoulda here. good work finding the issue.

but, those qauint little things in the glovebox called "service books" DO have some value if ya read em and make sure that basic work gets done BEFORE it causes problems.

 
actually after rereading recent posts, it appears his replacement pump came apart and caused the plobrem

as for Subaru 'not knowing about filter in tank,' stock pump doesn't have a filter per se, tho it does have a screen over the intake to keep driftwood and small dead animals out of pump. how was subaru to know he'd swapped out for a walbro already unless he told em.

none of this changes comments about keeping ahead of routine maint tho!

 
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