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1996 Subaru Legacy engine studders when stopping

Tiny
JHAPSTER
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  • 1996 SUBARU LEGACY
  • 4 CYL
  • AWD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 168,000 MILES
When slowing down from high speed to a stop light, the engine studders and sometimes stalls. Other than that it runs fine. We changed the plugs, plug wires and fuel filter and ran several bottles of injestor cleaner through. The engine light came on once with a code of lean mixture but the shop I went too had no idea what to fix other than the above. I'm thinking vacuum leak most likely in the advance system but thats a needle in a haystack and it runs fine at idle in the garage so there is no way to test hoses. Is this a common issue?
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 AT 5:51 PM

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Tiny
DONNA MURPHY
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Mine had same prob. Spent $8000 trying to fix it then finally listened to my brother. I took out the mass air flow sensor, cleaned with fuel injector cleaner, dried and replaced. That improved it for awhile so I replaced the sensor and fixed the problem. We had it to 12 garages and every one said they didn't believe it was that sensor. I've talked to quite a few people who had the same prob; they tried this and it was the sensor so i'm guessing it is pretty common.
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