Let the Tweaking Begin

[houndman]

checked all the fluids in my new 07' 2.5i 5M Impreza wagon. Have to
learn all this new fangled stuff, so I can drive the dammed car.

Evened and lowered the tire pressures to factory specs, and ran the
motor. Hear a faint knock from the front of the motor. Sounds like
around the idler pulley for the alternator belt. Sounds harmless, but
will want to know what it is. Motor has a little shake, and think they
say the Boxers Do That. Gona have to convince me. They Say 4's aren't
as smooth as 6's or 8's, even a close mechanic friend, but I got my
4's smooth. He was a 4cyl man, and I amazed him.

VF

 

[kaboom]

checked all the fluids in my new 07' 2.5i 5M Impreza wagon. Have to
learn all this new fangled stuff, so I can drive the dammed car.

Evened and lowered the tire pressures to factory specs, and ran the

**My Subie mechanic told me to run them all at the same psi. I had the
fronts at 31-32 and the rear at 29 as was stated in the manual ('05 5M
Impreza RS wagon). One of the back tires lost significant air (nail)
and, as I was bringing it in for an oil change, I asked them to look
at it. When I returned to pick up the car, the supervisor said to keep
all of the tires at the 31-32 mark and not at 29. He stated that they
would wear correctly and last longer.

motor. Hear a faint knock from the front of the motor. Sounds like
around the idler pulley for the alternator belt. Sounds harmless, but
will want to know what it is. Motor has a little shake, and think they
say the Boxers Do That. Gona have to convince me. They Say 4's aren't

**My Subie does that little shake. My brother-in-law's ex-STi did the
same thing also.

as smooth as 6's or 8's, even a close mechanic friend, but I got my
4's smooth. He was a 4cyl man, and I amazed him.

**I like how it sounds

kaboomie

 

[houndman]

**My Subie mechanic told me to run them all at the same psi. I had the
fronts at 31-32 and the rear at 29 as was stated in the manual ('05 5M
Impreza RS wagon). One of the back tires lost significant air (nail)
and, as I was bringing it in for an oil change, I asked them to look
at it. When I returned to pick up the car, the supervisor said to keep
all of the tires at the 31-32 mark and not at 29. He stated that they
would wear correctly and last longer.


**My Subie does that little shake. My brother-in-law's ex-STi did the
same thing also.


**I like how it sounds

kaboomie

Scared me for a sec. I thought Kaboomie, was the sound, or what
happened because of the shake.))

Probably can't change much like the old cars, but I used a vacuum
gauge often to set the timing. 4's aren't supposed to pull as much as
6's or 8's, but I could set them to pull the vacuum that 8's were
supposed to, unless the guage was bad.

VF

 

[kaboom]

Scared me for a sec. I thought Kaboomie, was the sound, or what
happened because of the shake.))

**Nah I just picked up that nickname from a cereal that I used to
love when I was a kid (if anyone remembers Kaboom!).

Probably can't change much like the old cars, but I used a vacuum
gauge often to set the timing. 4's aren't supposed to pull as much as
6's or 8's, but I could set them to pull the vacuum that 8's were
supposed to, unless the guage was bad.

**I had the hood open on my car and my Dad had a look-see. Then he
opened up the hood on his '66 El Camino and we had to laugh. It was
the epitome of simplicity.

kaboomie

 

[houndman]

**Nah I just picked up that nickname from a cereal that I used to
love when I was a kid (if anyone remembers Kaboom!).


**I had the hood open on my car and my Dad had a look-see. Then he
opened up the hood on his '66 El Camino and we had to laugh. It was
the epitome of simplicity.

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Yea, used to be able to See the ground around the motor on the older
cars.

VF

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

Yea, used to be able to See the ground around the motor on the older
cars.

VF

Yep, ONE (yes 1 ) vacuum line!
Remember oil bath air cleaners? owned 2 cars with them.

I think one of my cars had over 30 Zerk fittings!

cars nowa days are kinda 'binary'. They work - then they don't start
(well, since the 90s anyway computers and CEL codes DO help) but in the
old days the car would slowly start running worse and worse until you
did a 'tune up'. At least you had some warning before it went bad.

Carl

 

[houndman]

Yep, ONE (yes 1 ) vacuum line!
Remember oil bath air cleaners? owned 2 cars with them.

I think one of my cars had over 30 Zerk fittings!

cars nowa days are kinda 'binary'. They work - then they don't start
(well, since the 90s anyway computers and CEL codes DO help) but in the
old days the car would slowly start running worse and worse until you
did a 'tune up'. At least you had some warning before it went bad.

Carl

Yea Carl,

I remember those goodies, and the oil filters in a container putside
the motor that you could put a roll of toliet paper in, and glass
bowls on fuel pumps. At least Sube looks like changing a fuel pump
doesn't need dropping the gas tank.

A Howe 2001 computer isn't my idea of a Good relationship. I have
changed things before, to make things work better, but now a days it
looks like it will take someone with a Bigger brain to figure fixes. I
have a CRT front projection TV, and it can have a problem and someone
figured that a jumper wire on the circut board will fix. I imagine the
ECM on a Sube is all IC's. I used to work for a co that made materials
used in them, but don't think that will help. We worked on developing
materials to use in emission controls for Fiat's electronics branch,
but our testing was to put them in a tube furnace, and shooting
hydrogen and nitrogen into the tube, to simulate a rich and lean
mixture.

VF

 

[nobody >]

checked all the fluids in my new 07' 2.5i 5M Impreza wagon. Have to
learn all this new fangled stuff, so I can drive the dammed car.

Evened and lowered the tire pressures to factory specs, and ran the
motor. Hear a faint knock from the front of the motor. Sounds like
around the idler pulley for the alternator belt. Sounds harmless, but
will want to know what it is. Motor has a little shake, and think they
say the Boxers Do That. Gona have to convince me. They Say 4's aren't
as smooth as 6's or 8's, even a close mechanic friend, but I got my
4's smooth. He was a 4cyl man, and I amazed him.

VF

Sube's do shake a fair(but not bad) amount at idle and very low RPM.
Once the r's are up (~800-1000 rpm), they smmoootth out. Had an '82
Toyota pickup that wasn't that nice, it shook loose alternators,
starters, carb adapters, sparkplugs(!?). It never did anything
internally really nasty tho, 250K and still going when I sold it and
nothing major had ever done besides exterior gaskets

 

[houndman]

Sube's do shake a fair(but not bad) amount at idle and very low RPM.
Once the r's are up (~800-1000 rpm), they smmoootth out. Had an '82
Toyota pickup that wasn't that nice, it shook loose alternators,
starters, carb adapters, sparkplugs(!?). It never did anything
internally really nasty tho, 250K and still going when I sold it and
nothing major had ever done besides exterior gaskets

I added gas, and maybe a different brand than the dealer puts in, but
things Seem to be getting smoother. Been playing with tire pressures,
and the ride is improving, and doesn't always make sense based on the
pressures, and I wonder if the surge is bad with the AC on? A lot of
new things to get familar with while driving a new car in a big city,
and not driving a manual for 25 yrs it is hard to figure what is going
on. I Think I may have been driving at night with the daytime lights,
since I could flash the high beams, but they wouldn't stay on.
Checking it out, it looks like the headlights Weren't on.

VF