Date:         Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:56:54 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Timing and hot starts (not)
Comments: To: Skip <skiplaubach@COMCAST.NET>
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At 10:11 PM 7/12/2012, Skip wrote:
>that my idle seems on the low side right now, and I'm trying to
>figure out how, on a 1.9, to adjust the idle up.  I loosened the
>screw a few turns without any change in idle speed.  I think that I
>need to first tighten up the accelerator cable to achieve just zero
>clearance at the screw, then adjust as needed.  As is right now,
>when I loosen the screw three turns it still rests on the metal strip.

I wonder what screw you're talking about.  The idle adjust screw is a
plug about half an inch across with a big screw slot in it, inserted
in the throttle body where it straddles the closed throttle
plate.  If you've been messing with the throttle plate stop screw
that's a one-time setting done with a feeler gauge at the factory and
theoretically never changed.  Bentley has the procedure to reset it.

In any case your idle stabilizer module should be adjusting timing on
the fly to keep idle rpm to the specified 750 (Federal) or 850
(California) rpm (one module is green and one black, but I forget
which is which).  The base idle has to be set with that bypassed as
specified in Bentley.

Yours,
David