Good morning all,

 

I just purchased a 1989 Subaru GL wagon.  I have been having some problems accelerating.  Sometimes while driving I step on the throttle and the engine seems to bog down.  it is similar to when you are in too high of a gear and try to accelerate hard.  The difference is when I step on the throttle the car actually goes slower and slower instead of faster.  When this first happened I pulled over turned the car off.  I started it back up, and it ran fine for awhile.  The same problem has come back randomly.  Any help on this would be great!

 

Thanks,

 

Lewis  

Just off the cuff, have you done the basic, "I just bought a car and I don't know it's history" maintenance/tune-up items? Check the air filter (obviously) and change the fuel filter. 

**UPDATE**

 

The issue causing the problem was a bad coil.  I had previously replaced all the maintenance/tune-up items which did not solve the problem.  Replacing the coil was the ticket...