4000s, 4cyl, rough idle on restart

[Huw Powell]

"S. Jaworski" wrote:
> 
> My sold 85 4000s is haunting me. The new owner said it has a problem on
> restart. Something to do with cold weather, it worked ok when it was warmer.
> 
> Its a 4 cyl, non quattro car.
> These are the symptoms:
> 1. Starts ok, runs ok . . go to store . .shut off engine.
> 2. Come back to car in 15 minutes . . it starts up . . idles rough . . bogs
> down when gas pedal stepped on . . no power.
> 3. 30 seconds later . . it all clears up and engine runs fine.
> 
> I cleaned out the isv valve before I sold the car, cleaned the contacts, put
> stabilant on them. Car has new plugs, new wires, new cap, used dist from
> Shokan(old dist had bad hall effect sensor).

might be time for new injectors.

maybe he should also start waiting for 30 sec before driving after a
warm start in cold weather...

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Huw Powell

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