Hey all-

I just bought an 82 245 with the weird LH1.0 and Chrysler distributor/ECM- when I first drove it home, it idled quite rough from the start and even after it was heated up and would just want to die if I let it do it's thing.

Since then, I found out there was a vacuum hose to the charcoal canister to the TB completely missing, the TB was filty, the IAC was filthy and a couple other vacuum hoses were rock hard, and the MAF to TB hose had holes in it. I fixed all of those things, buttoned everything up tonight and a couple things happened-

1. It started right up and the idle stuck around 1500 rpm.
2. As it headed up, it worked its way down to what looked to be just under 1000, but a fairly rough idle.
3. When I turn the car off and restarted after it was all warmed up, the idle shot up to almost 2000 and wanted to stay there... it had a very tough time wanting to come down. It seemed very odd to me that it wanted to go back to such a high idle... even higher than before after restarting the car
4. If I tap the brake, it seems to have some effect on the idle- it makes it drop slightly to a decent amount... . Occasionally. Not sure if this means anything.

I do know that I have one more really bad vacuum hose from the intake to the black box Chrysler ECM that needs to be replaced, and I will be replacing the brake booster hose/check valve as well, however:

Do I need to go through the grounding-the-blue wire resetting the idle procedure? I still don't really understand how this works/when one needs to do it after doing quite a bit of reading. Additionally, I have a vacuum switch on this car instead of a throttle switch. It's very possible the TB has been adjusted to compensate for all the air leaks, though there is a little bit of paint on the adjuster screw/nut that says someone put it there for a reason. I cleaned the crap out of the IAC with it off of the car, but I imagine it's still questionable if it's working.

Other items: my spark plugs look nasty.. Planning on replacing them asap. What's the deal with the resistor stuff? The sparkies on there have threaded ends and the replacements I bought have the knobish end.

I'm not really sure of the next step order of operations- if anyone can give some input, that would be excellent.