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Explanation of car stalling

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AmBo

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Got in my car last night, drove about 45 feet to the end of the street, went to go turn right and the car just stalled...I just rolled into the middle of the street. Thank god no oncoming traffic was coming...

The RPMs just dropped, the car sputtered and

What are common reasons a car will stall like this? Alternator? Vaccuum leak? o2 sensors?
 

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was this after you put your foot on the clutch and weren't giving it any gas? Will it start up and stay running while giving gas then die if you stop giving gas? If so check you IAC, mine went bad@ 60,000 miles...simple swap.
 
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There's been a few people saying the same thing. I've had it happen to me the odd time,even before the cam swap. No known reason or cause,unless it happens all the time.
 
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IAC
 

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Red2000GT said:
There's been a few people saying the same thing. I've had it happen to me the odd time,even before the cam swap. No known reason or cause,unless it happens all the time.
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Yea, 2nd time in a year and a half. Horribly scary too. I can't imagin if it was during rush hour! I would have rolled right out into the street!
 

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Car stalls at Idle, eiter IAC as mentione above or maybe a vacuum hose de-attached.
 

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Car stalls at Idle, eiter IAC as mentione above or maybe a vacuum hose de-attached.
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I think I'm going to replace my IAC just to be on the safe side. Droptop, did you do this and it helped your idle?
 

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I think I'm going to replace my IAC just to be on the safe side. Droptop, did you do this and it helped your idle?
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yeah, my car was stalling and it just came out of no where...one day was perfect...next day car wouldn't stay running without foot on the gas pedal. I came on one of these stang forums and asked if anyone was having this problem and like 50 people all said they had the same problem. Its no biggie! took me like 20 mins to swap it out and put the new one on. I think it was like 3 screws or so...I think they sell for @50 dollars. you can handle it.
 

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droptopponynj said:
yeah, my car was stalling and it just came out of no where...one day was perfect...next day car wouldn't stay running without foot on the gas pedal. I came on one of these stang forums and asked if anyone was having this problem and like 50 people all said they had the same problem. Its no biggie! took me like 20 mins to swap it out and put the new one on. I think it was like 3 screws or so...I think they sell for @50 dollars. you can handle it.
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Rock on. It'll be my next cheapie project
 
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