Re: Botched Idle!!!

[Christian Els <tiAn@usiw.net>]

That would be the Auxiliary Air Regulator, and it does allow extra air
into the intake, downstream of the throttle butterfly. 

This is a common cause of idle problems. Replacement, or at least a
thorough cleaning of the part with brake parts cleaner or its
equivalent, is in order. 


HTH,

tiAn
87 16V
stuff.



Paul Maione wrote:
> 
> Hey all.
> 
> Recently my car has been idling not properly and this
> is driving me nuts. When the car is cold, it seems to
> idle normally but when it warms up, it's disaster!!
> Goes up to almost 2 Grand, I've adjusted it with the
> screw in back of the TB, even with the screw
> completely closed it's still at 1100!! Today, I was
> screwing with it again, and I grabbed this tube that I
> think went in back of the Intake manifold, it was soft
> so I squeezed it, the idle dropped and the car shut
> off. I started it back up and start giving minor
> amounts of pressure on it and the tighter I went, it
> would drop.
> 
> I was talking to Nigel and he told me that there is
> some sort of valve on back of the exhaust manifold
> that helps with cold running and that it could be open
> all the time...
> 
> Does this make sense?
> 
> TIA!
> 
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