HI, this is my first post. I have a problem that's driving me nuts and that the local Subaru specialist can't fix. I have an 82 GL 4wd Wagon, 4 speed, 222,000 miles, rebuilt Hitachi carb, good battery, rebuilt distributor (thought the distributyor was the problem). When I drive the car, just as the temperature gauge needle is moving onto the scale as the engine warms up, the car will stall out. No matter what you do, it will not start for about 10 minutes. Then it will start and run fine after blowing out a puff of black smoke out of the exhaust. It you crank while it is "stalled", it may or may not chug a little and then die. While this is happening, the coil is getting voltage -- happened once when I happened to have a meter in the car. It does not happen everytime I use the car, but is happening more frequently with time. Ideas anyone? It's winter here in Colorado and I need to get this fixed somehow. Thanks.

Sounds like a nice car! (apart from stalling...).

Does the enigne have either an automatic choke or an automatic hot air intake? The black cloud sounds like it is flooding itself........but this could also be caused by trying to start it when the spark plugs arn't firing.

I presume the ignition points have been replaced when the distributor was recond.?

Could also be the condensor.

 

Does the car run well when it is going? If this were a spark plug, points or ignition lead prob it would run poorly all the time. This is not necissarily true for the condensor though.