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I have a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero. It's in great condition. It had the motor replaced at about 150,000 miles, now has about 189,000 miles on the truck and around 39,000 on the motor. I purchased it about a month ago and drove it around 80 miles home. I then took it on a weekend trip of about 200 miles or so. It has demonstrated some electrical problems with the windows (back right window must be rolled up from back right door panel instead of master panel, sometimes windows short circuit and will not roll down or up). About a week after I got back from the weekend trip it sputtered and died on the way home so I ended up pushing it the last block or so.
I replaced the fuel filter hoping that was the issue. It wasn't, so I replaced the fuel pump and have put HEET in the tank to dissolve any water that might be there. It's still doing it. I can start it up and drive it for a few blocks then it sputters and dies again. It acts like getting warmed up is fouling something. I can put it in park in my driveway and rev it up forever but when I take it out it sputters and dies.
After it dies, it won't start back up for several hours (but it does start back up). I've heard it might be my distributor coil (whatever that is). I don't have any idea how vehicles work honestly. I'm competent enough to take parts off, put parts on, and diagnose a great many issues as I've driven a lot of beaters in my day, but I'm trying to keep this as a decent reliable vehicle.
I'm losing my mind here trying to figure out what's going on (and spending a fortune on parts). So any help is SO greatly appreciated.
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