Hello great Sportage owners!
I gots a Q on me sporty. I've been having this intermitent stall issue lately. Usually while I'm on the trail: As I come over a knoll, I'll lose power - IE step on throttle and no more gogo. It's like you turned off the key. If I let the engine stop and restart she fires back up, like normal. Last week dad and I went over one of our favorite trails and it died once out there and then again after turning left while driving through tombstone. It didn't show up again till eirlier this week while just cruzing at 45 - again, just dies like there's no ignition.
Another side note - my coworker was following me tonight and he said I was billowing black smoke out the tail pipe when the engine is cold. I just checked the codes and there's no codes stored. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
95 SOHC 5sp.

Any ideas, oh, great sportage gurus?

I just ran into something similar with my subaru - step on throttle and nothing. That turned out to be the needle valve assembly had unscrewed itself and weged against the float causing the carb to overflow the float bowl and flooding the engine. That was fun.