Pushing on the Clutch loads engine?

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

Normally, disengaging the clutch loads the engine slightly, as it has to
spin the input shaft on the tranny. I suppose a thrust bearing issue or
misalignment of the tranny to engine might cause the inverse to happen.

I would check and make sure you still have all tranny to engine bolts
installed (that rear one has vanished on me on nearly every 16v I've owned).

Also, if something that small can throw the idle into such oscillations that
it can actually cause a stall, I would think the feedback is a bit high on
the idle circuitry.

HTH
Al


> I have been trying to tune my idle (TEC 2) and was noticing that at stops
> lights when I pushed in the clutch it strated osillating but if I put it
> in
> neutral and let the clutch pedal out it the idle would imedialty
> stabilize.
> Back at home I tunned it to get the idle very stable even with all lights
> on
> and the fan kicking in but as soon as I push in the clutch pedal it starts
> occilating and if I blip the throttle it stalls when trying to recover
> from
> the drop in idle. What's going on?