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Engine will not IDLE....... HELP

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Old 03-15-2006, 02:51 PM
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Default Engine will not IDLE....... HELP

Before anyone says it I have searched every idle thread I could find. My problem is, the car starts fine, idles fine then if I blip the throttle it will die. Then it will not want to idle for a few minutes. If I play around with the throttle I can get it to idle. It also does it when I am driving and push the clutch in. I just did the Trickflow pkg. and removed the smog and AC. I am using a 72" belt and when I first put it on from the 73" belt I had it seemed to help and idled fine. The belt seems to have stretched some and If I jump on it pretty hard the low coolant light comes on. Would this cause my idle issue? I could probably drop one size of belt if I have to. Could the belt slipping on the water pump cause this? I am begginning to wish I had just carbed the darn thing. I do have a C&L mass air with a fenderwell CAI. Also I checked my TPS last night and it was reading like 2.13. I reset it but had to turn the Pro products TPS all the way to one side just to get .98. HELP I am ready to nuke this thing!
One other thing it seems to do this mostly when warm.
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Old 03-15-2006, 05:25 PM
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Anyone??
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Old 03-15-2006, 06:27 PM
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did you turn up the idle screw on the TB? so it does not idle? do you mean it just dies, or does it hunt for an idle surging?
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Old 03-15-2006, 06:30 PM
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When I had a trick flow intake on my stang, I had lots of problems with the way my car ran. Once i went back to stock I didn't have any problems. I'm not saying that your having problems because you have a trick flow package or nothing like that. I was going to suggest you look at your TPS but it looks like you have that where it should be at. I would look at all of your connections and make sure that they are all tight and connected. I hope that there is something that's not connected and causing you to have this problems. I have heard that those trick flow packages are great and I'm sure that you will have better luck than I did.
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Old 03-15-2006, 09:01 PM
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Have you pulled the codes?
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