1987 Buick Lesabre stalls and then is hard to start.

SHAYNTM

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1987 BUICK LESABRE

I have a 1987 Buick Lesabre that has been stalling and has been hard to start afterwards. If you go somewhere and shut the car off it has been hard to get the car started again. I have changed the fuel filter and replaced the fuel pump. I got a remanufactured ignition module from a wrecking yard, and I realize that there is no guarantee that the one I got was a good one. It does not seem wise to continually throw money at a parts house trying to get lucky as if trying to win the lottery. I went to the Library and looked at Michell's online automotive repair manual, but it is a lot of reading just to isolate what are the causes of a 1987 Buick Lesabre stalling and then being hard to start.

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ADVANTAGE1

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I have had a similar problem with my 1994 Buick LeSabre. So far I have diagnosed that it might possibly be the Emissions Control System. Check your charcoal canister. It is located under the hood in the very front, driver side corner. It is a large black cylinder that sits down into a hole. Make sure the fuel line is connected into the fuel port and the smaller vaccuum line is connected into the other port. On my 94 I have three ports and I am unsure of what port to use for the vaccumm line because one says purge and the other says air. I believe its just the purge port and the air port is left open. I found my lines unconnected. But other systems for the emissions might be causing the problem. For example I saw another post on here with someone and similar symptoms to you and myself and they solved the problem with a new camshaft sensor or crankshaft sensor. Try a new Mass Air Flow sensor as well.