HELP!!!!!!!

[insanity007]

I have a '93 WRX.

Ok so I was heading along the motorway in 5th. I dropped it to 4th to accelerate and the car just killed, the same death as when it governs. So I put it back into 5th and eased off but it kept doing the same thing every time I accelerated.

I pulled off into a petrol station to check what was wrong suspecting a pipe had come off somewhere in the air system because the way the car was receiving air felt like the computer was going mental.

I looked and found nothing except one pipe coming out of the bottom of this meter with nothing attached to it. I tried to find it's mate but found nothing:

What meter is this anyway?

I looked at the check engine codes and got 2 long and 3 short beeps which I think is code 23, which is my Air Flow meter or Circuit.

HELP!!!! :-[

[insanity007]

I'm not sure if it's code 32 (Oxygen Sensor) either.

Not sure which way around the code is supposed to be read.

[RAYDEO]

long flashes are 10's and short flashes are 1's...

so long, long, long, short, short, would be 32

[Disruptz]

Checked for any blown fuses?

[kamineko]

*looks* like that is the wastegate solenoid bleed/return

it should go from the bottom of the thing with red sticker in the pic, to the side of the intake baffle box thats just prior to the turbo hose

it shouldn't cause u so much trouble tho, so its quite possible your AFM is indeed at fault.

it may be a cracked solder joint which is fixable, or it could be reading lean

[insanity007]

Ok so I found the problem (after buying a new AFM :-S).

The hose under the BOV connecting from the intercooler to the engine came off.

I've replaced the AFM and put the hose from the intercooler back on but she's still idling really erratically and hesitating like mad, but otherwise at least she's not killing at 2k rpm and is boosting.

I've unhooked the positive terminal to reset the computer. I hope that works.

Do I need to reset the ECU in a different way?

Could it be anything else?

[Guest Rugged_RS]

Yeah you need to reset it if you lodge a afm code into the ecu or it runs like sh#t.

Same trouble with mine... do you know how to reset using the plugs?

[insanity007]

Hey dude... I used the terminal off the battery method and it reset and didn't bring up any error codes after reset so I know the reset worked.

Still runs like sh*t :-(

don't know what to do next :-(

[off2harrys]

take it to your mechanic they norm have a quick look find a loose hose connect and your outta there,they know what they looking for most times shouldnt cost you anything if youve got a good one,a similar thing happened to me was just the vacuum line to the turbo i think