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surging, then stalls

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  • Start date Start date Jun 4, 2007
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quick86

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What would cause the engine to surge? When driving, it is fine, then I come to a stop sign and put the clutch in and it surges to about 300-400 rpms. Sometimes it will stall, sometimes it will catch itself. What could this be?
 

90blacknight

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http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=698148

Here is the link to the surging idle checklist.
 
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bentley429

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Yea take a look at the checklist and pull the codes. Whats the car idle at? My car did something similar and I adjusted the idle to about 900 and it never happened again.
 
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