You need to clean your Idle air control motor. Mine does the rough idle,
never had it stall though. I have an auto, that may be the difference.
They are prone to carbon buildup and dont seat properly when they are dirty.
Its always worked for me. On my 4.7 and my 5.2. Since I dont stall, I dont
worry about it too much, It actually sounds cool, like a high duration cam.
Hence I call it "The Cam Fairy".
Boog
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Owens" <sowens01@rochester.rr.com>
To: "DML" <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 7:53 AM
Subject: DML: sputtering and stalling when cold
>
> Well, my '01 4.7 (4500 miles) developed it's first quirk a couple of weeks
> ago. When I first start it up in the morning, it ran rough for a few
seconds
> before it finally smoothed out. It wasn't bad, so I didn't think anything
of
> it until it stalled last Saturday. It started right back up, and ran fine
> for a while after that, so I simply thought I got some bad gas. However, a
> couple of days ago it started running rough again first thing in the
> morning, and it stalled again yesterday.
>
> I thought I read here that getting rid of the POS Champion plus and
> replacing them with the Bosch 4417's would fix the problem. Is this true?
> Anything else I should look for/try?
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
>
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