Hello, I Have Searched These Forums, Numerous Times, For Numerous Issues. First Time Actually, Posting... I Have Owned 2 Subaru EA82's, And My Very First Was, A EA82T. I Have Traveled Many Miles, 4x4 Trails, Dirt Bike Trails, Cross Country, and Only Let Down A Few Times, EVER! Only, Have Had The Luxury Of Lifting One, To In Turn, See Her Go Under Ridiculous Circumstances.. 

Have Learned Enough With These Beasts, I Can Proudly And Confidently Say, I Can Work On Them Blind Folded! (For The Most Part, Obviously...) Anyways, Just Bought Myself A 1983 (11/82) Subaru GL Wagon, EA81, Has The 1.6L(?), 4-Spd, Dual-Range 4WD. $400 Drove It Home, Here N There, To Now Barely At All. (Over Tinkering/Diagnosing, Chasing My Tail!)

Anyways, I Believe I Have Narrowed It Down To The Distributor... I Can Start The Car, Runs All Day, Full To Empty. It Goes Up And Down In RPM's, Smoothly. At Times I Can Go A Mile, Down The Road With No Issues, To 200 Ft. Where It Then, Falls Completely On It's Face... 

It Will Act As If It's, "Starving For Fuel" or Being "Choked Out" - I Have To Let It Die, And Then Start It Back Up, No Porblem. Just To Gamble Distance, and Repeat Again.... 

I Have Downloaded, Studied, And Seen Every Video To Everything Related To "Symptoms.." (To The Best Of My Knowledge...) Everyone I Have Asked For Help, or Their 2-Cents- I Might As Well, Just Asked The Car Itself!

 

1: Have Gone Over, and Through, Every Vacuum Front To Back. Looked At 20 Different Diagrams, For Multiple Years, (Trying To See Similarities..)

2: YES! I Have Checked, Flushed, Replaced, & Re-Checked- Fuel Pump, Fuel Filter, Fuel Vapor Emis. Crap, Fuel & Water Seperator, Side Glass On Carb. Itself, and Carb/Choke Cleaner (Tomorrow Is My #1 - SeaFoam Cleanse!) Even Ran My Own Wire From The Fuel Pump Conn. To Ign. System (Did Toggle Too...) 

3: I Have Inspected, The Entire Harness From The Tailights/Trailer Plug, To The Headlights! Under The Carpet, Etc. For Janked Up Wiring. (One, Which I Replaced And Is Now My, " Fuel-Pump' Hot Wire.. Blue/Red Line.)

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As For My Determination, For "Disty.." -

A: I Get Periodical Spasm/Surging(?) Activity, Through RPM' Gauge. (Wire In Wrong Spot? Vacuum Adv. Failure/Premature? Disty Play?) 

B: I Can Literally Hear & Feel, The Distributor Making "Noise" As The RPM Gauge Fluxuates In Seizure. - I've Adv./Retarded, New Rotor, And Checked Wire Conn. Order- Tis' Correct. 

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As Anyone & Everyone's Awesome, Amazing, and Reliefs Of SUCCESS!' Comments (Hopefully) Appear...

I Am Doing: (Waiting On Arrival 10am For - *Wires, And Cap*)  New Plugs, Wires, Cap, Rotor, Oil Change, Air Cleaner, And SEAFOAM* (I Periodically Run Premium Fuel, Anyways..) Sorry, For Alot, Thanks For Any/All Input, Info, 2-Cents, Laughs, Diss'es, Whatever... lol 

following this

Rebuild the distributor (Philbin manufacturing) and replace the stock carb with a Weber. 

GD

Oh, those pesky ol' Hitachi carbs.

check your ground wires from the body to the battery to the motor to the dash to everywere theres alot of those grounds for a reason

Thanks, For The Info. Well, I Kinda Finally Lost My Sh** With This Car. Exhausted To Much Money, Into it. I Had Believed To Have FINALLY. Got It All Situated... After Replacing The Plug Wires, Cap, Situating The Disty, And Then Running Seafoam Through It... Started Up Just Fine, Ran WAY Better, More Smooth, and Quieter. - This Time Around, Without Ever Once Having Issues With Charging... No Matter What I Did, No Lights, Charge Light On, and Cas Soon Failed Everything I Accomplished... TBH? I Swear To God, Somebody Is Toying With It. (Frriends, Enemy, Neighbor? Pulling A Prank, Long Story.... ) -- (Before Adjusting Disty) I Noticed The Distributor Cap Wobbling, While It Was Running. After Situating, It Wasnt Anymore. 

36 years old.  Got to expect a lot of things need attention.   Who knows how well maintained it was?

True, So Very True! I Swear There Are Things Missing, Improper, Or/and It Really Just Leads Back Down To The Disty... heh

I Am Currently, Working On Obtaining Another Subaru. There Are Two, I'm Looking At. 91' Loyal, And An 84' GL. Both Have Miner Issues. So Depending On How It Goes... Planning To Do A Cross Exam. Or Make One Work! Lol $400 For 91', and Offered My, Stihl MS-311 Chainsaw For Trade, For The 84'... 

86 GL- 93 Loyale are almost all interchangeable parts, or tiny differences.  Except carb VS SPFI VS Turbo

Earlier ones, I am not sure of, I jumped from 76-78 to 86 and up.

 

is the distributer grounded if not ground it take its phone away and dont let it play with its freinds for like 2 weeks everything should be fine after that lol

or maybe not