Re: 4ks...help my car idle!

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <029b11103130ca8UPIMSSMTPUSR04@email.msn.com> "Brian Winsett" writes:

> Okay, now I'm confused.  I go out to do something for my car ('84 4000 S, 5
> speed) and it thanks me by taking a nap.  An assistant and I were changing
> the air filter.  I was lifting the top part of the airbox/fuel assembly, the
> assistant sliding out/in the air filter.  When finished with this, I took a
> pair of vise-grips and gave a little wake up tap to what I guess is a cold
> start injector.  (It's the big, fat-looking injector-looking thing hooked
> into the top side of the intake manifold.)  Not a very hard tap at all, just
> enough to communicate that I am displeased with the sometimes hard starting.
> Oh, and one other thing I did was replace the blown-for-a-month radio,
> domelight, trunk light, etc. fuse.

The cold start injector is usually screwed into the inlet manifold at
an oblique angle and is held by two Allen screws.  It has both electrical
connections and a fuel pipe going to it.

The idle stabiliser valve is mounted on the upper rear of the manifold
and has electrical connections plus two air hoses, which are its main
or only means fo support.

Idle stabilisers don't like being tapped with fingers, much less
vice-grips.

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 Phil Payne
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