First and foremost, as the best defense is a good offense, no women are involved, no exes, no friends, no women at all, and if any try to involve themselves, I will tell them to do push-ups.
I am not doing this out of the goodness of my heart for anyone, but for the simple conclusion that cars sell for more money when they run properly.
I will sell the car to whichever stranger offers me the most money in a timely manner.
Ready to talk about my car? Let's go!
First of all, she runs rough. A mechanic said that the usual cause is a problem with the spark plugs, but with the Boxster engine, the spark plug wires extend out in a big H, with each one going right to a spark plug. The wires are not crossed, so unless there is a problem with the plug or wire, I do not know what the issue could be. Everything seems tight and I am not receiving any relevant CELs.
Then I read Pgfpro talk about grounds in
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post491239 and remembered that I had one ground and I did not know where it went, while I had a bolt and I did not know what was supposed to attach there. This grounding wire barely reaches, but if it were supposed to go there, it would not be as tight. I have been trying to find diagrams:
When you pop the hood, this little guy greets you:
According to the (dirty) vacuum diagram, it does not exist!
All that I have found so far is
missing hose identification (pic) - 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX - Ultimate Subaru Message Board, where the owner found a bare nipple, without a hose, and they told him just to cap it, but he had a 96 engine swapped into a 99 Impreza.
If I look at the parts diagram:
It shows part 26486B bolt-joint, which looks like it connects to this hose:
but that is for a 1995 model!
If you look at the repair manual, it says that my system takes 9.8 quarts of coolant. I took a poor picture, so I retyped it, although that does not seem very legible to me, either:
I think that I had poured in about half of what I expected when it started spilling all over, so I started burping the hose, which was difficult, it seemed like there was too short of a distance between the radiator hose and the fuel cap. I needed to fill the hose, but it was extremely difficult to stop there. I tended to get it too high to burp, so I needed to remove a little. When I went out, I could squeeze the hose hard and hardly saw any coolant, but it only took about one cup.
I am also getting P0117, Engine Coolant Temperature Circuit Low Input. I looked into it and someone said that you could trigger that with insufficient coolant, although the car has not been overheating.
Perhaps that has been distracting me. Right now, I think the ground is the most important issue, affecting drivability, but I am not having any better success figuring out where that ground goes than anything else.
Of course, it could still provide a ground, while another ground is the problem.