by niceold600 » Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:31 am
o.k. ... took me a long time to get after this problem, but i finally did. the engine also developed other problems in the meantime , namely : when coming to a stop it wanted to stall but would usually catch itself in time and idle back up; when reversing up an incline then letting off on the gas it would stall every time; fuel consumption was TERRIBLE; and finally, i had a no-start one rainy night but it eventually decided to start up after a few minutes.
after much reading of links i decided to swap out the distributor pickup; that cured the no-start situation.
for the high idle and stalling i was thinking along the lines of fuel pressure regulator and/or AIS motor and/or fuel injector and decided it would be simplest just to grab a throttle body from the wrecker since all of those are bolted to it, swap it out and cross my fingers.
got lucky, the throttle body swap solved all my problems. not the best trouble-shooting in the world, but if someone else is experiencing similar issues this may point them in the right direction.