Subject: Idle Speed
Author: AJ Huff
Date: May 31, 2005, 9:04 AM
Post ID: 1718950374
I am struggling to maintain idle speed at a stop after the engine warms up.
If I am at a stop light with the throttle off, it dies. Sometimes if I
clutch in and brake to a stop, the engine dies and I coast in.
I am looking at the procedures for adjusting the idle speed and the first
part says to have the engine running at about 1000-1200 rpm. If you
happened to remember from last week, my tach is broken. I'm done with that,
having shipped it out. It will be, either repaired or junked and I will
cross that bridge when I come to it.
How else can I check the idle speed? Will one of these fancy automotive
timing lights with the tach built in work? I'd have to buy one as I have a
30 year old silver Craftsman that lacks that feature. Any other method? Or
do you guys just do it by ear?
Thanks,
-AJ
AJ Huff
'71 Ambassador
Three Rivers, MI
MGNOC# 19917