bakerpbanc

My 85 GL has an quite a temperament with its ea82 and hitachi carb. Some days it's perfect, some days it dies at every light. Most days, when running well, it idles around 1800RPM. I have the idle set that high because... when running poorly it tries to idle around 600RPM before dying. Every once in awhile it feels like its stuttering when I give it throttle. And at other times it idles around 1000, mainly when warming up, and idles super rough... On long trips, greater than an hour, it tends to begin stuttering, lose power and die at least once. I pull over, she starts, runs normal... Also, the carb seems to be spitting gas at idle, I do not know if that's normal. It causes a very slight stutter in idle smoothness. I'm fairly new to wrenching on my GL. So as detailed as possible is great. I've cleaned the carb, checked vacuum hoses, new plugs and wires and replaced a very nasty fuel filter. I'm tempted to replace all the vacuum hoses, thoughts?

My thoughts exactly. I'm in the process of doing all of that this week.

So, maybe this is too simple. But I ordered the air filter and it finally came in (shipping takes forever to Alaska). Swapped it out, took the car out, took it up to 6 grand and back down to idle while driving around, did this a few times. No problems whatsoever. The old air filter was probably the dirtiest air filter that i've personally seen. As soon as I pulled it out, pine needles and other junk started falling out of it. Does this make sense? I plan on replacing the fuel filter this weekend, which I figure to be the culprit, I took a look the other day and it was pretty nasty.

85 Subaru GL. 77k original miles. An Alaskan beauty.

Hi All, I've recently acquired my first Subaru, a 1985 GL Wagon (and I love it!), 77k original miles. Though, i've been stumped by a motor issue. As long as I stay under 3500 RPM the car runs PERFECT but if I budge over 3500 the car bogs down and dies. Or just bogs down and runs like junk, bad enough it doesn't have enough power to move the car. Then, if I stop the car after going over 3500 RPM and immediately try to go again, it just dies. But, if I leave it sit a few minutes it starts up and drives like nothing happened (but I still have to stay under 3500 RPM). Any thoughts?