fxmonk

haha ok thanks because google wasn't any help (surprisingly)

On 7/7/2014 at 8:32 PM, treefern said:

Just posting here in the hope it might help someone else. My 2004 Subaru Outback auto would not go up hills. Foot to the floor, it would not rev over 3000. Always regularly serviced, my great mechanic couldn't figure it out - replaced fuel filter, still only two thirds fuel pressure coming through. Well, get this, it was something to do with the onboard computer that runs the engine (sorry for lack of technical details here) which apparently has some connection between the fuel circuit and the brake light circuit. I watched him fix it, by pressing the brake pedal, and while pressed, changing both of the rear brake light globes for different ones. He said he found the solution on some technical forum somewhere. It's like I've got a new car. Good luck anyone who has this problem. It's a real pain. Sorry I can't give any more technical detail, but it might point someone in the right direction.

What do you mean by brake light globes?

I have the following car:

In the FSM, floats on item (8) and item (25) are both "floats". 8 is the fuel level sensor, and 25 is the fuel sub level sensor. see the attached.

Awesome. Thank you so much