Re: Idleing at 0 RPM!!!

From: Michael Meyerhoff (mmeye@umr.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 25 1999 - 10:42:33 EST


At 04:11 AM 2/25/99 -0800, you wrote:
>1996 v6 Dakota 4x4 20,000 miles 20 degrees outside:
>
>I left my lights on in my truck, so I tried to jump it. The starter
>had plenty of power and sounded normal but the truck did not start. So
>I pumped the gas and used the starter at the same time. The truck
>started. I let off the gas, the truck died. I repeated the proceedure
>and let the truck warm up on a half a gallon of gasoline. Let off the
>gas and the engine stalled.
>
>What the is going on here? It's like it wants to Idle at zero or
>something.
>
>Ryan
>
Have you cleaned your throttle body lately?? My 92 has had similar
problems and cleaning the throttle body (especially the Air Idle Speed
sensor) has fixed it.

l8r
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