09-09-2013, 01:39 AM
Need some help please. Just sold an 89 Tracker to a guy who lives 150 miles from me. He called to ask about an intermittent stumble/electrical problem while cruising on the freeway in 5th. Said it did it a handful of times on his way home but it would go away and run fine in between. He described it as a loss of electrical which would reset the radio and then the engine would stumble and run really rough at idle after pulling over. Car will restart normally and idle fine after glitching. I don't have much history with this rig as I bought it as a project with a blown head gasket and have driven it little after redoing the head,timing belt etc. He initially told me he thought it was a vacuum leak but why the intermittent ? The 2 VSV ? valves are not hooked up as the PO seemingly bypassed what little emissions are on the 89. I told the guy I sold it to I would throw out these symptoms to this site and see if I could direct him where to look. I feel bad as I represented the rig as accurately as I could but never had it glitch as he is describing. Any help is appreciated.