Jonathan, you can't get the right idle on a 1.9 unless you have the timing correct. When the timing is right on, idle should be around 1 turn CCW back on the idle screw. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:49 PM Subject: adjusting idle on 1.9
> i was trying to adjust the idle on a 1.9 today and wasn't having much > success. i had the idle screw all the way backed out and i couldn't get > above 1000 rpms. right now the idle is hanging around 800-825 and the > idle seems real choppy to me. some additional information is that the > throttle body has some light scraping on the bottom where the butterfly > plate is starting to scrape on the throttle body housing. this is also > an automatic and i haven't played with automatics before. any ideas and > information that you can provide is appreciated. > > jonathan |
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