Early 90s cars were very problematic with bad capacitors, they would leak and eat traces off the circuit board. It seems like the ECUs from the 80s had better caps in them than those later ones. Although my experience is from Mitsubishi vehicles of the era. If Nissan used Panasonic caps of that era I would replace them all! I have worked on electronics from the mid 80s with them and they caused tones of issues!
I was basically yelling fuel pump at my screen from the start of the video. Especially when you said replacing the fuel filter made the problem worse. Glad you figured it out!
@@HelloRoad sounds like it was marginal where it would provide just enough pressure to run but not enough flow to maintain acceleration. Some parts can test ok but fail under load.
Yay! Glad your little Stanza is back on the road again! I love seeing rare quirky beasts like this staying on the road :) Sad that you're selling it though! :( Maybe somebody from the Radwood community that can give it a new loving home?
Damn it. The first video for this car was my introduction to your channel, I saw blown away by how well it was done - the VHS look, the fantastic music paired with it, etc. I'm very sad to see the Satanza go, it was by far my favorite car of yours. I love those weird, boxy stumpy proportions. I hope the new owner takes good care of it. Godspeed.
One golden rule for owning any youngtimer / oldtimer car: Do not buy the last one... it will be a nightmare to maintain. You need a reliable community to support you. Happy to see the car is now running properly again. If you sell it, what will be the replacement? :D
my mom had one of these, got it when I was 14 and it got totaled when I was in college. I think hers was an 87', and it was a standard trans, I loved this car! I drove it a bunch. thing was crazy reliable right to the end. I always remember looking it up on Consumer Reports, the auto trans got terrible reviews, the standard got great reviews, so she bought it, in 1990. thanks for the nostalgia!
My first thought was the fuel pressure regulator. It’s very common for the vacuum diaphragm to go bad and then fuel will bypass into the vacuum line and flood the engine out or cause a bad miss at idle. I’m glad you got it running. I just finished replacing the head gasket on one of mine. They are kind of a pain to work on with all the brackets and vacuum lines.
I had a 79 toyota that would stall behind red lights, and it was because of pluged up carburetor passages, your car is fuel injected I think, but sometimes a stuck open egr valve leads to hesitation and stalls, newer cars don't have egr any more, great job fixing your car ethan.
Ethan, this is going to sound weird, but a past time of mine is making words from plates. Yours is 1PUN655 If you add the 6 and 5 you get 11 which is the K so your plate is 1PUNK5
I loved mine, 4x4 wagon. But parts support was near zero. The final straw was needing transmission work; got almost impossible to engage 4x4. The trans parts had to come from Japan and was told it would take up to 12 weeks. Sold the vehicle because of that. Probably would still have it if parts were quickly available; could handle as much bulk as a small pickup, seat 5 people and worked well in the snow.
It's good that you're at least willing to work on your own vehicles. You actually have a decent idea of what you're doing :) That's also one good thing about having older vehicles
look into the egr system for stalling, could be a blocked or partially blocked port on the head or intake, a set of bristle tube brushes from harbor freight and a can of carb cleaner to help remove the buildup. Also throttle body shaft seals could be leaking and might need cleaning, could also be idle air control valve if equipped, but the shop likely would have caught these items or thought about them, also a compression test won't hurt just to see what the overall engine health is but carb cleaner will help remove any gummed up ports/parts and tube brushes are cheap, also might be unrelated but i hear lifter tick so might have to adjust the valve lash if possible.
Haha thanks for watching! I'm not sure. They actually did check the fuel pressure. Apparently their measurements were within spec, though I don't know under what conditions they tested.
Back in the early 90’s my parents said they going to go get a newer car, used but better than what we had from a Mercury Lynx. When they drove up over the hill and we saw this min space shuttle my brother and I, being in our early teens, looked at each other and realized we were never going to get laid…
Ethan, I believe the ancient philosopher Kenny Rogers said - You've got to know when to hold ' em, Know when to fold em', Know when to walk away And know when to run . Start running!!!!!!!!!
My god I feel you completely. I have 11 cars and so many broken ones. I want to sell some but I don’t. When something works I sell it snd if it doesn’t work I drive myself nuts.
@@HelloRoad Ethan, you should stop trying to discourage people from buying a lot of cars. The more cars they buy the less cars go to junk yards. Also, you don't have enough. if you don't have mid 2 digits, you need more. I would say low 3 digits, but that would be too many for you and your neighbors.
We sold ours in 2000. It was the most utilitarian car we ever had. However…. support from Nissan was not very good. The Nissan mechanics just weren’t very good at fixing problems when they would develop. So I wound up tending to it. Quickly I learned to take failed parts with me whenever I needed to buy replacements because the counter men at the parts retailers (dealer or aftermarket) would NEVER get the right part on the first try. Also…. The muffler would only last about 4 years and was hard to find and unusually expensive. Interesting that it had one hot and one cold spark plug in each of the4 cylinders. The 4WD was awesome. Even with all season radials it would just plow through the snow. I really regretted it when the time came to sell it but the herd needed to be culled…….
Congrats on getter her running again. Dare I even say reliably?!? Every single time I see the license plate on the Stanza I want to badly to come up with a witty and crafty pun on the name Stanza, but I think you've already done that with your reoccurring pattern of love and hate for this car!
I remember when my father bought a brand new tan Stanza wagon back in the 80's. Us kids were so amazed on how the side doors were both opened like a van but it wasn't considered van. That damn thing lasted forever and been everywhere. The older I got, the more I realized how ugly it really was 🤣
These are called a Nissan prairie in japan. Some are AWD. you could swap in a CA18DET or a NA CA16DE or CA18DE. you can add a jumper to the secondary coil to get a lil more power. no much. you could boost this CA20E with CA18ET parts.
The shop should have definitely tested the fuel pressure while driving. For that concern with it stalling after driving around I’d test the fuel pump first. See it a lot where I work where the car cold starts ok and runs ok till it gets warm and while driving it will stall. I must have done 10 or more fuel pumps for that concern.
I had an older, low mileage Ford car that always stalled when the rpms got below a certain point. It was a free car, so I didn't really look into the cause. I just gave it enough gas to stay on. I got it for Christmas one year in high School and it lasted to the following summer before enough was wrong with it where I just gave up and sold it for scrap
I'm floored. The Z24 engine should be easy to work on. Most mechanics don't even realize they have 2 spark plugs per cylinder. Have the mechanics found any trouble codes? Have they checked? I know it's not OBD-II, but there is a way of getting trouble codes.
My family and I had a white 1986 Nissan Stanza Wagon. It was a good vehicle, until the transmission went out. We got rid of it after owning it 10 years. How do you like your Chevy Nova?
We had one from 1991-2001. Was in the Air Force then and went back and forth from Baltimore to Vegas a couple of times. Would love to have another. My wife loved it too. You still have it?
Mój tata ma takiego nissana, od dwudziestu lat nie zmieniał oleju, tone płyt do bagażnika a dwie tony na przyczepę i daje radę. Nie do zajebania. Polecam
Unfortunately one fell off recently, I think the shop didn’t put it on tight enough. 😫 Impossible to find original hub caps so I’ll probably go with some aftermarket ones…
I don't know how california works but where I'm from we just swap a carburetor and kill all the efi system if it gets too difficult to get parts. We actually have some stanzas in peru
My very first car was a Tan Stanza Wagon, I got it around 1997. It had the same stalling problem. After a year of trying to figure it out, I sold it. If I knew then what I know now...
What controls the fuel injection? Is there a computer? I came across a Stanza at a dealers auction back in the '90s, which was around the same year as yours, and it wouldn't start unless you connected a box of some kind to stimulate the injectors. That was the last Stanza I ever considered.
You should restore the Stanza exterior plastics with the heatgun method too, it would transform the car. I've done it on my Volvo it looks like new since 2 years
I just purchased a 1986 Nissan Multi (The Canadian Version) 2 days ago, running and driving. I'm excited to fix it up and make it more reliable! I cant find a replacement windshield in Canada for it though... Any suggestions?
Sounds like what was happening with my old 95 Ford F-150. It would hesitate and die all the time. I took it all over and had multiple mechanics look for issues and no one could ever figure it out. Ended up trading it due to that and the gas mileage.
Did you not have an OBD1 scanner capable of talking to the computer? Sometimes you can dump codes with a paperclip or by cycling the key 3 times. A failing fuel pump might have set a code for an unexpected lean condition.
"Please, please do not buy a fleet of mostly broken cars..." uhh, oops! hahaha. I have a 6th broken car on the way to provide parts for the 5th broken car...only two of the cars are currently usable...my only regret is not having space for MORE cars. (well, and not having the money to properly fix all of them at once!) :D
Thats funny cuz i kept a huge fire extinguisher in my old 75 Fury. And theyre making parts hard to find to force people to junk these cars and spend buttloads of money on something new.
@@HelloRoad Yeah :'( I will buy a new one at the beginning of september (if the granny succeed to put the title in her name) this time with no LPG Autogas aftermarket conversion that probably ruined the engine
@@mexicanspec The other cylinders are probably half bad too. When it is finally hot after 30 minutes i can leave with it without stalling too often but it runs super rough
We had one and it kept stretching the belt that turned the water pump.needed replacing about every 2 weeks.3 mechanics couldn’t figure out what was causing it.sold it for next to nothing
Bro, been a mechanic for most of my life (I’m 40). You need to find a new shop. If they can diagnose a pump when it’s making noise, they don’t care about your business or they are a terrible shop. 5 min pressure test could have saved you so much time and money.
Dumb idea: it's injected, not carburetted? I'd recommend finding air mass flow sensor (probably somewhere between throtle and air filter) and clean it up.
if you replace the fuel lines it should run even better, after 30 years at least the rubber on the inside is in bad shape and the lines got full of muck clotting the line from running the fuel properly.
Bro , box on wheels was the term used by Mr K to Porsche when developing the Datsun 510. 150000 miles for a 35 year old car isn’t enough. Too much carbon.
Hesitation and you replaced everything but the fuel pump,check your injectors.You could have a dead one and it could cause it to hesitate and stall from lack of fuel.
Lol your fuel pump sounded horrible and you were losing power? Sorry to be captain hindsight, but dang dude, seems pretty obvious. A pump that makes unpleasant noises is either going bad or is ruined already. This is why it's so important to me to remove any unpleasant sounds in a car. If your car makes unpleasant noises, resolve that shit.
It was obvious to me as well, that's why the fuel pump was the first thing I had my mechanic check. They flow tested the pump and it came back fine. Apparently they didn't test it properly!
@@HelloRoad honestly that mechanic failed you. Any mechanic when informed you're having intermittent issues with your engines power while a fuel pump is audibly making unnatural sounds is dropping the ball extra hard. BTW I wish I had a shot at buying it. The Stanza Wagon was my family's vehicle when I was a kid. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for one.
So, my Plymouth TC3 had a weird problem like that. Something to do with an "apirator valve". Not sure if this car has anything like that. I made 2 videos on it. th-cam.com/video/BVsMaOCYkPk/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Zy8zG4NRuf0/w-d-xo.html
Failed capacitors in the ECU can cause strange gremlins like this, and will stump most mechanics. Glad you fixed it!
Early 90s cars were very problematic with bad capacitors, they would leak and eat traces off the circuit board. It seems like the ECUs from the 80s had better caps in them than those later ones. Although my experience is from Mitsubishi vehicles of the era. If Nissan used Panasonic caps of that era I would replace them all! I have worked on electronics from the mid 80s with them and they caused tones of issues!
You’re alive?!
"Laughing maniacally because my car isn't stalling. Ah, I need new hobbies."
Aaand now my lemonade is in my sinuses.. thanks!
I was basically yelling fuel pump at my screen from the start of the video. Especially when you said replacing the fuel filter made the problem worse. Glad you figured it out!
Thanks for having a realistic fleet of hoopties. So refreshing! And thanks for dealing with the overload of vehicles for our sake 😆
Funny that the mechanic didn't try the fuel pump fix. Glad you got it running better!
They said they tested it! Apparently didn't test it enough! :)
@@HelloRoad sounds like it was marginal where it would provide just enough pressure to run but not enough flow to maintain acceleration. Some parts can test ok but fail under load.
Yay! Glad your little Stanza is back on the road again! I love seeing rare quirky beasts like this staying on the road :)
Sad that you're selling it though! :(
Maybe somebody from the Radwood community that can give it a new loving home?
I love how I always get auto parts ads when I watch Ethan’s videos. It just makes perfect sense to advertise them here …
Damn it. The first video for this car was my introduction to your channel, I saw blown away by how well it was done - the VHS look, the fantastic music paired with it, etc.
I'm very sad to see the Satanza go, it was by far my favorite car of yours. I love those weird, boxy stumpy proportions.
I hope the new owner takes good care of it. Godspeed.
One golden rule for owning any youngtimer / oldtimer car: Do not buy the last one... it will be a nightmare to maintain. You need a reliable community to support you.
Happy to see the car is now running properly again. If you sell it, what will be the replacement? :D
my mom had one of these, got it when I was 14 and it got totaled when I was in college. I think hers was an 87', and it was a standard trans, I loved this car! I drove it a bunch. thing was crazy reliable right to the end. I always remember looking it up on Consumer Reports, the auto trans got terrible reviews, the standard got great reviews, so she bought it, in 1990. thanks for the nostalgia!
As an owner of many older Alfas and Fiats over the years, boy do I know the feeling! The desperation and the exhilaration. Mostly the desperation.
Nissan preria 1982 ! Good! 7 seats, twins sparc! Thanks 4 video, wish you success!
Take it to radwood or local shows if it's alright to drive its definitely one of the coolest cars you got
I would honk because I love your channel and the Stanza Wagon. 😅🚙❤️
Yesssssssssss
My first thought was the fuel pressure regulator. It’s very common for the vacuum diaphragm to go bad and then fuel will bypass into the vacuum line and flood the engine out or cause a bad miss at idle.
I’m glad you got it running. I just finished replacing the head gasket on one of mine. They are kind of a pain to work on with all the brackets and vacuum lines.
I had one and loved it. Mine was a four speed manual…..2wd. Had good success with mine.
I had a 79 toyota that would stall behind red lights, and it was because of pluged up carburetor passages, your car is fuel injected I think, but sometimes a stuck open egr valve leads to hesitation and stalls, newer cars don't have egr any more, great job fixing your car ethan.
Dang i wish i watched this 2 years ago. I desperately need a car. I woulda bought that Stanza up.
I love it when a 80s car comes back again
Awesome it’s running great and fixed. Shops should have known and checked if it was the fuel pump
Ethan, this is going to sound weird, but a past time of mine is making words from plates. Yours is 1PUN655 If you add the 6 and 5 you get 11 which is the K so your plate is 1PUNK5
I loved mine, 4x4 wagon. But parts support was near zero. The final straw was needing transmission work; got almost impossible to engage 4x4. The trans parts had to come from Japan and was told it would take up to 12 weeks. Sold the vehicle because of that.
Probably would still have it if parts were quickly available; could handle as much bulk as a small pickup, seat 5 people and worked well in the snow.
Please keep making content. I love it
Thanks for watching! :)
It's good that you're at least willing to work on your own vehicles. You actually have a decent idea of what you're doing :) That's also one good thing about having older vehicles
I feel you though I have a 1989 Nissan Sentra sedan and parts are hard to find as well
look into the egr system for stalling, could be a blocked or partially blocked port on the head or intake, a set of bristle tube brushes from harbor freight and a can of carb cleaner to help remove the buildup. Also throttle body shaft seals could be leaking and might need cleaning, could also be idle air control valve if equipped, but the shop likely would have caught these items or thought about them, also a compression test won't hurt just to see what the overall engine health is but carb cleaner will help remove any gummed up ports/parts and tube brushes are cheap, also might be unrelated but i hear lifter tick so might have to adjust the valve lash if possible.
Yes, it is so satisfying to fix your own car!
Your Stanza runs great man! I'd love to have one haha, love weird vehicles too! Your fleet is amazing imho.
Glad to see you got George CoStanza running better
Glad it's running again! But we need more probe videos!
Sooooooooooon!!!!
Phew, what a great and satisfying fix! Wonder why the mechanic didn't figure that one out?
Haha thanks for watching! I'm not sure. They actually did check the fuel pressure. Apparently their measurements were within spec, though I don't know under what conditions they tested.
@@RetroCarsForever Yep, that's what I was wondering!
Back in the early 90’s my parents said they going to go get a newer car, used but better than what we had from a Mercury Lynx. When they drove up over the hill and we saw this min space shuttle my brother and I, being in our early teens, looked at each other and realized we were never going to get laid…
Ethan, I believe the ancient philosopher Kenny Rogers said -
You've got to know when to hold ' em,
Know when to fold em',
Know when to walk away
And know when to run .
Start running!!!!!!!!!
Hahahah!
The legacy next, please.
My god I feel you completely. I have 11 cars and so many broken ones. I want to sell some but I don’t. When something works I sell it snd if it doesn’t work I drive myself nuts.
Maybe we should trade. I'll give you some of my problems, I'll take some of yours 😆
@@HelloRoad Ethan, you should stop trying to discourage people from buying a lot of cars. The more cars they buy the less cars go to junk yards. Also, you don't have enough. if you don't have mid 2 digits, you need more. I would say low 3 digits, but that would be too many for you and your neighbors.
We sold ours in 2000. It was the most utilitarian car we ever had. However…. support from Nissan was not very good. The Nissan mechanics just weren’t very good at fixing problems when they would develop. So I wound up tending to it. Quickly I learned to take failed parts with me whenever I needed to buy replacements because the counter men at the parts retailers (dealer or aftermarket) would NEVER get the right part on the first try. Also…. The muffler would only last about 4 years and was hard to find and unusually expensive. Interesting that it had one hot and one cold spark plug in each of the4 cylinders. The 4WD was awesome. Even with all season radials it would just plow through the snow. I really regretted it when the time came to sell it but the herd needed to be culled…….
On the bright side, at least you’re able to fix most of the mechanical issues on the Stanza wagon before selling it
Congrats on getter her running again. Dare I even say reliably?!? Every single time I see the license plate on the Stanza I want to badly to come up with a witty and crafty pun on the name Stanza, but I think you've already done that with your reoccurring pattern of love and hate for this car!
Haha! Yeah when I see the license plate, I realize that the joke's on me!
A little polish, fresh hubcaps and it’ll look mint ready for sale👌
have you consider checking out the fuel injectors 🤔
I remember when my father bought a brand new tan Stanza wagon back in the 80's. Us kids were so amazed on how the side doors were both opened like a van but it wasn't considered van. That damn thing lasted forever and been everywhere. The older I got, the more I realized how ugly it really was 🤣
These are called a Nissan prairie in japan. Some are AWD. you could swap in a CA18DET or a NA CA16DE or CA18DE. you can add a jumper to the secondary coil to get a lil more power. no much. you could boost this CA20E with CA18ET parts.
The shop should have definitely tested the fuel pressure while driving. For that concern with it stalling after driving around I’d test the fuel pump first. See it a lot where I work where the car cold starts ok and runs ok till it gets warm and while driving it will stall. I must have done 10 or more fuel pumps for that concern.
I had an older, low mileage Ford car that always stalled when the rpms got below a certain point. It was a free car, so I didn't really look into the cause. I just gave it enough gas to stay on. I got it for Christmas one year in high School and it lasted to the following summer before enough was wrong with it where I just gave up and sold it for scrap
Nooo not the Stanza Wagon it was the car that led me to sub to your channel.
I bought a 1986 Stanza Wagon and it is failing smog with really high NOx. Any tips for passing CA smog?
I will miss the Stanza for sure
Me too 😢
I'm floored. The Z24 engine should be easy to work on. Most mechanics don't even realize they have 2 spark plugs per cylinder. Have the mechanics found any trouble codes? Have they checked? I know it's not OBD-II, but there is a way of getting trouble codes.
My family and I had a white 1986 Nissan Stanza Wagon. It was a good vehicle, until the transmission went out. We got rid of it after owning it 10 years. How do you like your Chevy Nova?
We had one from 1991-2001. Was in the Air Force then and went back and forth from Baltimore to Vegas a couple of times. Would love to have another. My wife loved it too. You still have it?
I just sold it a month ago!
Mój tata ma takiego nissana, od dwudziestu lat nie zmieniał oleju, tone płyt do bagażnika a dwie tony na przyczepę i daje radę.
Nie do zajebania. Polecam
Any chance of getting a matching set of hubcaps for that gem?
Unfortunately one fell off recently, I think the shop didn’t put it on tight enough. 😫 Impossible to find original hub caps so I’ll probably go with some aftermarket ones…
Speaking of boxy cars, how's the xB? When is the next video on it??
Sooooooon! At paint shop now!!!
XB XB XB. YEAH !!
I don't know how california works but where I'm from we just swap a carburetor and kill all the efi system if it gets too difficult to get parts. We actually have some stanzas in peru
My very first car was a Tan Stanza Wagon, I got it around 1997. It had the same stalling problem. After a year of trying to figure it out, I sold it.
If I knew then what I know now...
Ah bummer!!
Did you get the codes from the computer?
What controls the fuel injection? Is there a computer? I came across a Stanza at a dealers auction back in the '90s, which was around the same year as yours, and it wouldn't start unless you connected a box of some kind to stimulate the injectors. That was the last Stanza I ever considered.
I think putting on some miles would help a bit!
3 day old comment and video is 6 minutes old???🤔🤔🤔
@@ruthlessuk6313 yup, I saw this on patreon 3 days ago 😆
Oh😂
You should restore the Stanza exterior plastics with the heatgun method too, it would transform the car. I've done it on my Volvo it looks like new since 2 years
Yes! I did this on a Jeep WJ. It came out great.
I just purchased a 1986 Nissan Multi (The Canadian Version) 2 days ago, running and driving. I'm excited to fix it up and make it more reliable! I cant find a replacement windshield in Canada for it though... Any suggestions?
Oh nice!!! Sorry, no idea on the windshield. I have to imagine they’re hard to come by everywhere…
It's a shame your getting rid of it, I love Nissans, especially older quirky ones.
Was going to recommend a new fuel pump glad you fixed it, how much would you sell it for?
I ended up listing it for auction here, if you're interested! bringatrailer.com/listing/1986-nissan-stanza-2/
Cool ride
Thx!!
Do you still have this? We had one and my wife Loved it, but we hit a deer and totaled it. I’d love to get another one 😊
Sorry no, I sold it last year!
HOLD ME CLOSER, TINY STANZA
I'm curious what the scenery will be when I park my 1989 Nissan Sentra next to your Stanza Wagon. 🤗🤭
Sounds like what was happening with my old 95 Ford F-150. It would hesitate and die all the time. I took it all over and had multiple mechanics look for issues and no one could ever figure it out. Ended up trading it due to that and the gas mileage.
I would love to buy this car.... can't believe your selling it.
Did you not have an OBD1 scanner capable of talking to the computer? Sometimes you can dump codes with a paperclip or by cycling the key 3 times. A failing fuel pump might have set a code for an unexpected lean condition.
You have a Chevy Nova Twin Cam!! :o
"Please, please do not buy a fleet of mostly broken cars..."
uhh, oops! hahaha. I have a 6th broken car on the way to provide parts for the 5th broken car...only two of the cars are currently usable...my only regret is not having space for MORE cars. (well, and not having the money to properly fix all of them at once!) :D
Hey man. Test the o2 sensor.
Edit.. Terrible habits of commenting before the vid is over and spew random suggestions lol.
It still might be. We don't know it stopped hesitating for good.
Oh what a Beauty !!
Thats funny cuz i kept a huge fire extinguisher in my old 75 Fury. And theyre making parts hard to find to force people to junk these cars and spend buttloads of money on something new.
My Previa stalls too ... sadly it is because it has absolutely no compression in one cylinder :(
Ugh! 😢
@@HelloRoad Yeah :'(
I will buy a new one at the beginning of september (if the granny succeed to put the title in her name) this time with no LPG Autogas aftermarket conversion that probably ruined the engine
It can't run on 3 cylinders without stalling?
@@mexicanspec The other cylinders are probably half bad too. When it is finally hot after 30 minutes i can leave with it without stalling too often but it runs super rough
Given the weather in california, I would suspect vapor lock.
We had one and it kept stretching the belt that turned the water pump.needed replacing about every 2 weeks.3 mechanics couldn’t figure out what was causing it.sold it for next to nothing
Bro, been a mechanic for most of my life (I’m 40). You need to find a new shop. If they can diagnose a pump when it’s making noise, they don’t care about your business or they are a terrible shop. 5 min pressure test could have saved you so much time and money.
They did a pressure test, the results were fine. But maybe they did not test while driving? Not sure
My first car was a 1989 nissan stanza sedan it was awesome but I couldnt find parts for it at all in junkyards or online so I ended up selling it
love it!
YAY!
Sounds a lot like the injectors are plugged up. When you replaced the fuel filter it could have allowed more debris to get past and to the fuel rail.
Dumb idea: it's injected, not carburetted? I'd recommend finding air mass flow sensor (probably somewhere between throtle and air filter) and clean it up.
Yep we did that :)
Time to change mechanics bro-they shoudve been able to diagnose the pump. Noisy for a start....
Awesome ride
if you replace the fuel lines it should run even better, after 30 years at least the rubber on the inside is in bad shape and the lines got full of muck clotting the line from running the fuel properly.
Bro , box on wheels was the term used by Mr K to Porsche when developing the Datsun 510. 150000 miles for a 35 year old car isn’t enough. Too much carbon.
u hv just proved ow reliable fuel injection rly is
You may want to find new mechanics if yours didn't bother to check for good fuel pressure
They actually did check. Apparently their measurements were within spec, though I don't know under what conditions they tested.
Hesitation and you replaced everything but the fuel pump,check your injectors.You could have a dead one and it could cause it to hesitate and stall from lack of fuel.
the fuel tank could also be rusty and dirty, contaminating the fuel
I had an early integra with no check engine light but it bucked and hesitated. Put an Oxygen sensor in it. It should be not be too expensive.
It uses the Mass air flow and the primitive O2 sensor to set the fuel trim. Obd1 cars act crazy and are harder to diag than Obd2 cars
Also just because you got a new part, doesn’t mean it will fix it. There is a rash of many bad “new parts”.
Lol your fuel pump sounded horrible and you were losing power? Sorry to be captain hindsight, but dang dude, seems pretty obvious. A pump that makes unpleasant noises is either going bad or is ruined already.
This is why it's so important to me to remove any unpleasant sounds in a car. If your car makes unpleasant noises, resolve that shit.
It was obvious to me as well, that's why the fuel pump was the first thing I had my mechanic check. They flow tested the pump and it came back fine. Apparently they didn't test it properly!
@@HelloRoad honestly that mechanic failed you. Any mechanic when informed you're having intermittent issues with your engines power while a fuel pump is audibly making unnatural sounds is dropping the ball extra hard.
BTW I wish I had a shot at buying it. The Stanza Wagon was my family's vehicle when I was a kid. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for one.
Get it to that detailer
The interior could really use a deep clean. The exterior won't likely look better without a repaint. Enjoy the patina!!!
So Mimi Vandermolen did not work on the design of this one? :-)
Haha not this one!!
So, my Plymouth TC3 had a weird problem like that. Something to do with an "apirator valve". Not sure if this car has anything like that. I made 2 videos on it.
th-cam.com/video/BVsMaOCYkPk/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/Zy8zG4NRuf0/w-d-xo.html
That car needs a One Day Paint paint job.
Valves need adjustment really bad
It always annoyed me that the one wheel didn't have a hubcap on it
One of the shops I took it to lost it :/