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01-15-2004, 12:40 PM

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projekteg

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Re:Cold Starts

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Originally Posted by _46and2_

After checking the warm up idle this morning, I noticed that it idles at about 1800 RPM. I understand that 2000 helps it warm up quicker, but I fail to see what that has to do with my car dying in the morning. I let it warm up long enough to get a reading on the temp meter this morning, and still, the same problem

After driving it for a while it steady's out, and idles fine.

maybe fuel filter? dirty injectors? fuel pump going bad? if you haven't replace your fuel filter in a while, try that. try some injector cleaner too

01-16-2004, 10:43 AM

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Re:Cold Starts

maybe its so cold out that the car's gas still in the lines is like slushy ?

01-16-2004, 02:21 PM

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Re:Cold Starts

Gees I dont think that it gets that cold in Arizona.

01-16-2004, 02:28 PM

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Re:Cold Starts

i wonder if it has to do with the ecu, becuase if its an ef youre missing the dashpot action on the throttle plates.Just my opionion :P

01-16-2004, 02:39 PM

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Re:Cold Starts

What's "dashpot action on the throttle plates" ?

01-16-2004, 04:02 PM

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Re:Cold Starts

When you let go of the gas ; on a si ef theres like this little pluger hooked up to vaccum and it acts on the throttle plates. So when you let go of the gas the throttle valve does not close all the way, it keeps the plate a crack open ive been told it helps maintain idle.During these conditions.

01-16-2004, 11:51 PM

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Donald125

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Re:Cold Starts

it happened to me after i tighten the cold idle valve too much.

01-17-2004, 11:24 AM

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Re:Cold Starts

sounds like your fuel filter it maybe dirty and it takes a couple minutes of fuel flow to get everything moving right. thats what happened to my y7. every morning it was a bitch to keep running even had to ru a couple stop signs. after about two minutes or so or driving it went away.