Haudi, The ol' beater idles at 1600 ISV connected, ~850 disconnected (AC off, alt load low). I'm still Bentley-less (go SANTA!), so could someone provide insight to my failure mode? Bad multi-sensor, etc. tia and cu James '87 4kq (alias "late-B2 90q") '89 200q (K26, torsen, flush handles, no bag) '86 4ks, lives on in memory http://netnow.micron.net/~marriott Boise, ID, USA