Car won't idle!

GrandmaLS

GrandmaLS

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I rode home this weekend with the gf so I gotta roll in the winter ride, the GrandmaLS, for the weekend! :rockwoot: But it won't idle now.... It starts fine if you are on the gas some but once you go back to idle it dies. When you rev it up it hesitates for a second then raps up like normal. Last winter I had a similar problem and it was the IAC sticking. So instead of cleaning it for like the 4th time in a year I went and pulled the one off my brother's wrecked F150 but nothing improved. The gas was at 2gal (digital fuel gauge) so I went to the barn and put in 6gal but the same results. The fuel filter is less then a year old too.

*Edit* It started doing it last week when my mom was at work. She took the car to work and it drove fine, on the way home she backed out of her spot and it stalled, went to pull out onto the road and it stalled while she was sitting there, and so on. Nothing let up to it, it just started stalling at idle.

Any Ideas?
 
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GrandmaLS said:
I rode home this weekend with the gf so I gotta roll in the winter ride, the GrandmaLS, for the weekend! :rockwoot: But it won't idle now.... It starts fine if you are on the gas some but once you go back to idle it dies. When you rev it up it hesitates for a second then raps up like normal. Last winter I had a similar problem and it was the IAC sticking. So instead of cleaning it for like the 4th time in a year I went and pulled the one off my brother's wrecked F150 but nothing improved. The gas was at 2gal (digital fuel gauge) so I went to the barn and put in 6gal but the same results. The fuel filter is less then a year old too.

*Edit* It started doing it last week when my mom was at work. She took the car to work and it drove fine, on the way home she backed out of her spot and it stalled, went to pull out onto the road and it stalled while she was sitting there, and so on. Nothing let up to it, it just started stalling at idle.

Any Ideas?
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Throttle pos. sensor same thing happened to me! lite peddle pressure and it keeps running fine.

Tom
 
Sounds like the idle air control. That went bad on my truck and you had to 2 foot it all the way home and back to the part store.
 
BB71Mopar said:
Sounds like the idle air control. That went bad on my truck and you had to 2 foot it all the way home and back to the part store.
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It was the IAC. I thought it was so I put the one from the F150 on but from it sitting like 3 months it froze up a bit. I pulled it back off, cleaned it, put it on and the car runs like a champ! Mine was shot, the F150's was just dirty....
 
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