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Spuratic stalling (kinda long)



> Kervin came by a while back to loan me a deep well 13mm and noticed some of
> my vacuum lines had come undone. When the car started stalling every time I
> pushed in the clutch I figured I better check it out. Well, everything has
> been reconnected with new hose, and we raised the idle speed to 1k RPM. The
> drive home was fine, but then the next day it started again. One of the
> connectors wasn't gripping the hose snuggly so I switched that one out too
> and let the car run about 20 minutes, revving and letting it drop with no
> problem........Well, it's now 3 days later and it's doing it all again. I've
> checked all the connections and they're tight. Some times it recovers and
> idles at about 750, roughly, other times it just drops and dies. It seems to
> get worse the warmer the engine is.
> 
> Any ideas? I'm clueless.....

  idle stabilzer valve on the back of the intake manifold? replaced one
in my '85 and my idling problems went away. need to do the same thing on
my '84 now.

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