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Warm-up idle problem 200 1984

posted by  Kolb on  Fri Oct 24 04:52 CST 2003
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I'm having a similar problem on my 1989. It starts and idles erratically and then dies. If I rev it up I can keep it going until I put it in gear and start driving. Once in gear and going it's fine and at the next stop the idle sounds perfect.

If you lived in California I would blame the problem on low fuel vapor pressure (CARB III gasoline). I have tried cleaning the throttle body, new spark plugs, check for vacuum leaks, check for air leaks, new fuel injector seals, proper idle adjustment. Nothing has worked. Recently I moved my throttle positioning switch so it would not click and that seemed to help a bit. I'm going to wait till the winter blend of gasoline to see if the higher vapor pressure makes a difference.

good luck,
Jason






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