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Old 01-18-2006, 12:07 PM
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yesterday i went to start my car and nothing, not even a click. i jump it and it started right up but the idle was around 2200 and wouldnt drop below unless i would put it into gear and begin to engage the clutch. the car did seem to run fine while driving except when i would shift it would have a slight rise in rpms (w/o pressing the gas). i did check my tb and the cable and everything looked to be fine. plz help if you have any idea
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Usually there is a relearn period after power to the PCM is disrupted. But the idle should return to normal after some driving and a restart or two. There is also an OBD idle re-learn proceedure you can do to speed the process, but it should relearn on it's own with some driving and re-starts.

Is it still doing it? Are you getting any SES light? Done any recent mods or replaced any parts lately?
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if its not what rpm said,u may wana start looking for and vacuum leak that will cause it to idle high and eratic too,hope this helps
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u may wana start looking for and vacuum leak that will cause it to idle high and eratic too
Yep. That's happened to me before.
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thx for the help it was a vacuum leak, i fixd it and its running fine again. just so happened that the battery went bad at the same time. thx again for the help
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Originally Posted by RedLS1Iroc
thx for the help it was a vacuum leak, i fixd it and its running fine again. just so happened that the battery went bad at the same time. thx again for the help


Glad you got it figured out.
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glad we could be some help to ya




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