won't idle

bhuff30 said:

It is definately because of the idle control valve.

The idle control valve on my 97 has been sticking in cold weather. It does exactly the same thing as you described. If I drive it, once the valve gets some heat, it unsticks and idles properly. In my case, I removed the valve and cleaned it well. Seems to be working so far, but the best solution would be to replace it. I cleaned mine last winter and it worked great until the temps got into the teens again this winter.

So in short, replace the idle control valve. It's very easy. If you don't want to spend any money, you can take it off, and clean it up, and it might start working again.

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bhuff30 said:

It's mostly real gaskets. The idle control valve is a gasket. My gasket broke into a bunch of small pieces last time I had the valve off, and it doesn't seem to have any vacume leaks.

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