Erik: Sounds like classic vacuum leak symptoms. Check around the four 2" rubber tubes that connect the head castings to the central air manifold. I sprayed carb cleaner at the suspect area, since it is NON flamable the RPMs dropped when it was sucked into the leak. Drive Safely & Good Luck Ken Lewis 86 VW Transporter Three Door Pickup 60 Porsche T-5 Coupe 85 VW GL Vanagon<Elvis>awaiting engine On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:28:13 -0500 Erik Rhodes <ErikRhodes@platsoft.com> writes: > The idle is too high when it's warmed up (not before, it >tends to be too low then) and when I hook up the tach meter and try to >adjust it down to 950RPM, it falls down to around 650--700. I try to >adjust it up to 950, it flys up to around 1300. It won't stay at 950. >Erik
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