[svxistentialist]

Originally Posted by manta

I bought my SVX in December. I drove it from Detroit to Houston with no problems. After a while the car started to die for no reason, on the highway and at the stoplight. If you revved the engine you may keep it going, but most of the time not.
I changed the fuel filter, fuel pump, both water temp. Sensors, cleaned MAF, swapped with known working MAF (wouldn’t even start). Nothing worked, it still would die whenever it wanted to. I thought maybe this car was possessed, like the old show My Mother the Car staring Jerry Van Dyke, but no this is just a machine. I thought maybe it's the TPS, so I bought a new TPS and took it to a Subaru dealer to have them swap out with the old the TPS. They ran a diagnostic and it said the problem was the MAF and it would cost 500.00 dollars if they could find a new MAF. They said that they would go a head and change out the TPS for 95.00. I sad never mind.
Remembering the second part of cleaning Your MAF, I took the top off of the MAF and took the MAF to a local electronic repair shop and showed the man what to re solder according to the instructions. (I took a copy with me.) One minute and 10.00 dollars later he finished. I replaced the MAF and the car has not died on me ever since.

That is absolutely brilliant, Manta. Thank you for letting us know.

Your scheme of going to an electronics shop to get the soldering done, very clever, very cheap, and a very good tip for the members at large.

Nice one dude.

Joe