94touring

I'm not sure what caused it to do this but here is what happened. I was driving along about 50mph and I put it in neutral to cruise to a stop at a light, well instead of the revs going down to about 1k rpms, they jumped between 2k and 3k rpms and kept revvin up and down. Didn't matter if the clutch was all the way in or all the way out it would idle radically. If I put it in gear it and gave it zero throttle it would try to rev the motor. I pulled over and it kept doing it, cut the car off and back on and it still did it. Cut the car off again popped the hood and gave the throttle cable a few yanks and checked the dashpot screw, cranked it back up and it was fine. So what in the world caused it do idle like that?

94touring

I just installed a new throttle cable not too long ago too if that matters.....

pengaru

sounds like vacuum and/or bacv issue, but i don't know jack about fd's.

94touring

What is a bacv?

9BASE3

Mine did that same ghey ****. I sprayed the throttle cable with cleaner, and yanked the **** out of it. Hasn't done it since.

vosko

sounds like sticky throttle cable.... adjust tension i guess ?

j9fd3s

the throttle cable should have some slack in it (1/4-1/2") they leave it loose to keep it from hanging the throttle open



mike

94touring

Well it worked fine today, i'm leaning toward what you guys are saying about the throttle cable. It stopped once I gave it a yank anyways.

j9fd3s

yah, if its a little tight it might randomly idle wierd



mike

Turbo II

its jealous of the mini.