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The leak in the main seal is a common occurrence. I had one for several years, just remembered to watch it. Those cars gave Chrysler a bad name.
The Cummins-Turbo Diesel got Chrysler back in competition again.
Actually, the A-bodies were built pretty well...but their replacements (the F-body Aspen & Volare) emphatically were NOT!
I had a 1977 Plymouth Volare station wagon that I drove across the US with that same rear end leak. I then later discovered I had a bad fuel filter. I attributed my poor gas mileage to the cheap Chrysler product. My dad started buying Chrysler products after Studebaker went out of business.
No, no rear end leak...rear MAIN SEAL leak: the oil seal at the back of the engine. Unfortunately, changing it requires removing the transmission.
When my mother died, I inherited her 1982 Plymouth Volare. It had a constant cut off problem. It started like a champ, but you could be driving down the road, and the thing just cut off on you. There went your power steering, the whole bit, and if you were on an Interstate, God help you. I had to run it in idle for about 10 minutes with the hopes that it wouldn't cut off. I sold it to my best friend. I told him everything about the car. He had one of the best mechanics at his church to look at it, and nobody could fix the cut off problem. Yeah, we tried a carburetor tune up kit, but that didn't fix it. Later, somebody discovered that the vacuum hoses were put on wrong, and that occurred in the factory because the dealership never could fix it for us. They just kept blowing us off. If I remember correctly, the lemon law had not yet come into effect, otherwise, we would have sent that one back.
If you had a 1982 Volare, it was a VERY rare car: one of zero built! The last Volare was built in 1980. The problem sounds like an ignition module just starting to go out.
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