l75eya Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 This has been going on for a month now with my GL (weber, 87) Long story short, it stalls and won't start again for some time. Seemingly out of nowhere. On a few occasions I was doing some city driving, going down a block, 2nd gear, and it'd start bucking. Then it would just die and I'd be able to start it again and it would idle for a few seconds and die again. If I tried giving it gas it would choke and die. After waiting a little while it would eventually start up and run perfectly normal. Last night I came out at 3am and started the car. Started up fine, I'm sitting here letting it warm up, foot on the gas barely, to hold it at 1200 rpms. About 4 minutes in to this and it sputters and dies. Restarts once and stalls. Won't start again. Today I go out, turn the key and it starts right up. Needle is just starting to move off the c. Been running for 8 minutes now. Smooth as silk. I'm thinking maybe my fuel pump is getting flaky, I'm hoping it's not my distributor or coil. I have very crappy, loose battery terminals that need replacing. Does anybody have their own ideas or things to try to narrow it down? When all this happens, it doesn't smell flooded. My timing is fully advanced. A few months ago I dialed back the timing because the car was flooding out shortly after starting, or so I thought. Maybe it was the same thing, though it never did it after running for awhile like it has now. Either way I've since set the timing back to fully advanced. Think it could be a timing thing? Sucks not being able to trust her. No long drives for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomRhere Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 One thing I can suggest if you think it's fuel flow related, is to install a clear fuel filter under the hood. You'll be able to tell at a glance if there's fuel or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l75eya Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Good idea. Going to check the plugs as well. Maybe fouling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee2 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Certainly sounds like a fuel pump problem to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Does this have a ignition amplifier and a pickup under the cap (I forget what subaru calls them). They can fail in this method and drive you nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l75eya Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Nip, I can say for certain that the distributor cap is the clip on type and the rotor has no screw. I don't think it's an optical distributor but I will check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ennbenn72 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I'd start with fuel pump. If the dizzy was having issues it would be more consistent. As far as it sputtering and dying when its cold, that's not a huge surprise with the Weber. My suby doesn't have one, but my LUV does and it hates running cold.. I always have to be pumping the gas, I can't just hold it in one place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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