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Date:         Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:07:12 -0700
Reply-To:     "Tom L. Salicos" <TomSalicos@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         "Tom L. Salicos" <TomSalicos@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Idle Stabilizer Stability (2 Parts)
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For an '87 2.1 WBX:


Part 1:
My van had started to die after starting from cold recently.  It would start right up and idle okay, but die at the first stop sign 250 feet away.  I had bought an idle stabilizer control unit on Ebay, so I put it on.  Now I notice a difference.  It does seem to work okay, but the idle seems to be right under 1000, and pulsing up and down a couple of hundred RPM, maybe twice per second.  


I am wondering if this might be a difference in how the controllers work from different years, or if my "new" one has a different kind of problem.


Part 2:
Does anybody repair and test these things?  I'd rather have mine repaired than just keep buying unknowns from used vans.


Thanks,


Tom Salicos
'87 Westy Syncro
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