82GLF

This car doesn't have an igniter or crank angle sensor. I think that's on fuel injection. I haven't checked to see if the tach jumps or not. Is there a test I can do for the module? Something I just noticed yesterday... Just before it dies, the volt gauge drops to 12 volts or a hair below and the batt light comes on. Then after a few minutes of cranking, it acts like the batt is dead. Then later, it will crank right over and start as nothing was wrong without charging the battery...... Now, I know it's not the batt since I tried the battery out of my truck with the same results. I'm not sure about the alt, but it did show it charging and the belt is good. I placed my meter to the batt and it showed I was getting a charge, even when the gauge showed 12v or less. Also, the car still doesn't get spark even while jumping or with the batt charger on.... What could make the gauge show a low batt when in fact it isn't??

82 GLF 1.8L carb / Electronic ignition / Auto Having a problem tracking down the cause of intermittent fire from the coil. This problem occurs without warning, as if a switch was flipped. It doesn't matter if it is idling in the driveway (cold) or at highway speeds on a flat straight away. It just dies and will not restart until it decides to. This last time (last night) I tried restarting it 2 hours after it died, it would not restart. This morning I was ready to tow it home, but it fired right up. This isn't a fuel problem or battery problem. It cranks over fine but there isn't fire out of the coil (tested with good plug and wire straight from coil). Once I see spark, I plug the coil wire back in and it fires right up. I naturally ASSumed the coil was bad, so I tried a new one......nope. Then I removed the batt and cleaned the post's and cables / all grounds to no avail as well. When running the batt shows around 14 volts, so I'm (I know!) ASSuming the alt is fine. I checked the coil post's and read 12volts at both terminals with key on (run position) when it wouldn't start. At the moment it's firing so I'll have to wait until it stops firing to test this while cranking. I wiggled the ignition switch while cranking but this did nothing either. Right now I'm not too sure what else to check for the sporadic nature of the fire problem. (relays???) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Shoot some oil in that cylinder and retest the compression. If it goes up it's either stuck/broken or worn rings. If it doesn't come up it's either a hole in the piston or a timing problem - the leakdown test will pinpoint as mentioned. Good luck.

Well, I'm on the southern coast in Coos county.

I'm in Oregon.

That's what I was talking about. Thanks again!

Just wanted to say thanks for a great board! I never knew there were so many Subaru fans. I just searched for one because my sisters '82 GLF has some very bad habits. I did a few searches of the board and it led to the fix. The problem; It would start cutting out on acceleration just as if it were running out of gas. I took it up a steep hill only to have it die and not restart until I backed it down to level ground. This had me thinking float problem in the carb. Then I did a search on here and found out there is a fuel filter next to the fuel pump. I changed it and now cruise up that hill. Now I need to find that tranny regulator to fix the shifting problem (will shift manually). I read on here about that too but having problem locating it, but I'll post that another time. Again, thanks for the wealth of info from this great board!