Intermittent Low Idle, Stalling
Talk to us about the history -- was it driving/behaving fine and all of a sudden with no warning or slow degradation it just started doing this?
Does nobody have any further suggestions?
Further suggestions -- see my questions above....#42.
Just a few days ago, the car ran really well. Strong through all throttle settings, no issues except at a stop when I put the car in neutral. That's when the RPMs would drop to 400 and hunt back up to 900 and go back and forth a few times. Sometimes, it would stall when the RPMs got too low.
Also, I noticed that the RPM fluxing ONLY seems to occur as I'm rolling to a stop...as soon as I actually stop moving, then it seems to settle in at 900 RPM. I don't understand the correlation of engine idle RPM between rolling and not rolling. Some have mentioned the VSS....but what about it and how it relates, I'm not sure.
So I decided first to clean the throttle body. I removed the throttle body, sprayed a little bit of throttle body cleaner and wiped out some minor carbon buildup on the butterfly and the inside of the throttle body. After putting it back together, it operated the exact same as before.
Then, I thought maybe I had a fuel delivery issue and I changed out the fuel filter/regulator. That's when the troubles started that you're seeing in the videos.
I thought maybe my fuel pump wasn't delivering enough fuel pressure but as you can see, I get a solid 58psi no matter what RPM the engine is running at.
I get no check engine lights.
That's pretty much the history of how I got here.
Last edited by leblanc1; Jun 23, 2017 at 06:49 PM.
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I did no work on the car up to the idle RPM flux issue and since then the only things I've done are throttle body clean and filter/regulator change.
I took the car for a quick spin up the road. I still get the RPM flux at idle. Riddle me this...it only fluxes if the car is rolling. As soon as it comes to a stop, the RPM settles in at 900 RPM. But as I'm rolling to a stop, it's hunting between 400 and 900.
Notice in the video I roll into a 2d gear start and punch it....no hesitation, no lag, just power. Don't mind the grind into 3d....oops.
Andrew
The hunting RPMs at idle when I come to a stop seems to have improved....doesn't happen as often. But the prevailing concern is misfiring under load.
If I punch the gas, the nose of the car dives for a second like the engine misfires then the power kicks in all the way through 6500 RPM. But every time I hit the gas in the 2000-3000 RPM range, it can't seem to respond to the demand and the power disappears for a second, then comes back.
Still not getting any codes.
Surely somebody has some ideas of what else to look at.
Last edited by leblanc1; Jun 27, 2017 at 05:39 AM.







