vacuum leak? On 12/12/06, Florian Speier <groups.florian@gmail.com> wrote: > friends, > > I have a 1997 ford crown vic as replacement vehicle for the van during the > subie conversion. have some trouble with it. is there a crown vic list > someone knows about? > > > in case someone here is an expert and would pm me, this is the problem: > > intermittent tooo low idle > on some days, the engine would stall whenever i take my foot of the gas (in > the middle of an intersection usually), so the only way you can drive the > thing is with one foot for gas and the other one for brake. not very > pleasant. if the problem is there, it will be there for the whole ride. it > is not dependent on whether the engine is warm, even happens after stretches > of highway. > most of the days it runs fine, and the engine idles rather too high. you > know how the idle increases when you shift the tranny from drive to park? > this does also not happen when the problem is there. i think the problem is > more often occuring on wet days. > > thanks for the bandwidth. > flo > |
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