rough idle after a year of no driving

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Jul 3, 2009 | 10:13 PM

FungusMungus05

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rough idle after a year of no driving

Is it normal to fire her up after a year of not seeing the streets and the idle be pretty rough. She was fine before as it was tuned by a reputable shop here in town and was running fine. Now she shakes pretty bad while letting it idle at fire up. All I did was battery to rear, ac delete, abs delete, tcs delete, and line lock mods. Just wondering if I need to get her back on the street and everything will be okay. I have lights come on, but thats expected with the deletes. Also, anybody ever get the brake light on after line lock mod? Would a bad ground cause bad idle?

Any help will be appreciate as I am no tuning expert.

Jul 3, 2009 | 11:12 PM

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Yeah, probably need to drive it around some just so your pcm relearns again, and get the fuel trims where they should be.

Jul 4, 2009 | 06:35 AM

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recheck plug wires and make sure all connectors are connected.

Did you let the gas tank sit full for a year? Try some new gas.

Jul 4, 2009 | 07:32 AM

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Yeah, it sat as is with the gas. I left it with a little less than a 1/4 of tank. I'll look into the plus as well as new gas.

Thanks!

Jul 4, 2009 | 03:36 PM

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being that low on gas and sitting that long i'd bet condensation formed in the tank. throw some stabilizer in there and fill it with 93 and give it some cruising.

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