iowanine

This evening after I had gotten off of work, my car acted up on me. I started it off just fine, but then the idle started riding really rough. After about two minutes of it being on, it died on me. I attempted to restart it, it started over fine with a little bit difficulty but then died out again. Tried it again, this time I attempted to gave it a little bit of gas and it seemed a little fine, was up to about 2RPM but then shot down to .5 when it killed out. On the drive home, I was able to get it about 60MPH fine without pushing on the gas too much. If it would get a little above 2RPM then it would start to feel like it would die. After I was done driving it, I picked up the throttle from the engine itself not through the pedal and it was fine. I tried it again through the pedal and acted up. So what could the possible issue be? I can not really check anything else further now because its the middle of the night. I had noticed when I had first left, there was a little bit of water from the exhaust when it was first started up. But after about 15 minutes of driving, there was none and no white smoke, so I figured the headers are fine. Could it possibly be a sensor or something?

phalcrow

Check for air leaks in your intake.

Airman21

clean your IAC see if that fixes it... most idle problems are from the IAC

iowanine

what is exactly the IAC?

GT_Bob

Idle Air Control Valve.

Check your engine bay closely for a vacuum hose that might have came lose, cracked or other-wise f'ed up.


The water from the tail pipes is just condensation and your gas pedal is connected to the same thing that you were pushing under the hood via a cable.