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Installed new HB. . . dies at idle

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deadlast

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ok heres how it goes. sunday i changed my pvc valve, cleaned the filter element, cleaned my IAC and put in an IAC restrictor, and cleaned the IAT sensor. i also hid some wires. i ran the car for around a minute, because of my bad HB, and every thing was going great. yesterday i pulled out my fan and coolant resevoir to make way for the HB which came today. So today i change it out (after buying 2 pullers) while im at it, i got rid of my hp pullies because i thought it might help my charging issue. I didnt want to use my original ones since they were rusty, so i used some oem ones from my old 1994 gt AODE convertable. so i bolted those up, reinstalled everything else and fired her. nearly instantly she was running crappy, low idle (500) and dropping a little now and then. regardless, i take it for a spin. every time i came to a stop it would die. i dont know what could be causing it. Im also dripping something, but only when the car is on. I wasnt able to locate it because i dropped an IAC bolt so i cant bolt it back up, meaning i cant turn the engine on to see where its dripping from. So any ideas where to start from?
 

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here is what i moved around, the major object being the motorcraft thing. i also put all the wires into the fender. im 100% they are all connected
 

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please explain the iac restrictor and why you need it. i am confused.
 

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Reset the pcm

You now have a different voltage at idle

Give it a few days to settle down

Might wanna loose the iac restrictor

Grady
 

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resetting pcm is done by unplugging neg on bat terminal correct? i was also thinking on dumping the restrictor, or opening it up more
 

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deadlast said:
resetting pcm is done by unplugging neg on bat terminal correct? i was also thinking on dumping the restrictor, or opening it up more
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Yes on the reset.

You will need to leave it discoed for about 20 mins
OR
While it is discoed, turn on the h lights, honk the horn, step on the brake, etc for about 5 seconds and then reconnect the cable.

The idle bleed screw will usually work pretty good between 1 to 2.5 turns out. If it is too far out, you sometimes get a hanging idle after decell.

Good Luck

Grady
 

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ill just leave it off overnight.. if this doesnt work, as well as the iac plate what are my other options? when i drove it it seemed fine, but whenever i let off the gas and the rpms dropped, engine would die. could i have possibly messed up my IAC while cleaning it?
 

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I changed my HB friday and I noticed it started to "miss" under 1500 RPM and it would die sometimes at idle untill it warmed up. I coukd see the voltometer going up and down then it would die.
 

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Did I see that your IAC is not even properly attached (due to a missing fastener)?

Im with Grady on this. As Ben asked, did you have a hanging idle before (hence the IAC restrictor)?

Nothin like 5 or 6 variables to churn up the mix. It should sort out pretty quickly.

Good luck.
 

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yea see, i thought it may be the iac plate too, because the car worked fine everywhere except when i was completely off the throttle. so i decided to take off the plate. upon removal i dropped one of the bolts and its lost forever, so i wasnt able to check to see if that was the problem. Hopefully a ford dealer has a similer bolt for sale....
 

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ok i took out the iac restrictor and reset my pcm, problem still persists. it will run fine when i turn it on, but after 30 sec. of warming up, rpms stutter and it dies. I try turning it on again, it will run for a sec then die. So the same thing as yesterday. I also noticed my steering wheel vibrates, more than often which makes me thing i didnt install my HB correctly? Also, when i took the hb off yesterday it was pretty oily around the seal, making me think i should get a new one. im going to try and increase my idle, because if i hold down my gas just a little so it idles at ~700, it wont die. However, it still doesnt run as smooth as it does when its over 1000. think rasing my idle will fix the problem?
 
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