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Re: high idle

Start by puling codes.....will give you a starting point,
Avi


At 07:01 PM 12/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Hope everybody had a pleasant holiday. Thanks for your advice concerning my
>86 5kcst high idle.After a thorough inspection of the intake manifold I
>have discovered an unused hole (about 10mm dia) in the back of it facing
>the firewall. Thought it could be responsible for my woes as a path for
>unmetered air. Plugged it but made no difference. To make long story short,
>I still have a couple questions:
>1. Is my 86 5kcst equipped with an auxiliary air valve?
>2. How can I get my mixture ( and plunger) back to approx. right position?
>3. Could the fuel pressure or throttle potentiometer be a problem?
>
>The car is hard to start cold, picks up to about 3k rpm after starting,
>then stalls after about 1 min. Impossible to restart when hot. The exaust
>looks and smells rich, but any attempt to lean stalls the engine. No
>reaction to idle screw or ISV disconnect. IMHO, no vacuum leak. Sorry for
>the wasted bandwidth.
>
>Vytas
>
>86 5kcst(time guzzler)
>87 5ks  (working for two)  
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