Crazy Idle,help!!

[Windveil Blues]

Hey man, get a can of carb cleaner or brakeclean and start the car up... while idling, hose the shit out of your vacuum hoses. That rough idle is a big sign you may have a vacuum leak. I have found MANY a leak on MANY a Ford.

Good luck,

Jim

 

[beejay31000]

i think we had him check all of the hoses before and they were all okay.

 

[Gawthle]

while idling, hose the shit out of your vacuum hoses.

spray the lines with carb cleaner while its running? whats that gonna do? or rather, what am i looking for while i do it?

 

[Windveil Blues]

When you spray the vacuum lines while it's running, the carb cleaner or brakeclean will momentarily plug any leak, and the idle will change immediately. Then you'll know which hose you're after or at least suspect being bad.

Jim

spray the lines with carb cleaner while its running? whats that gonna do? or rather, what am i looking for while i do it?

 

[Gawthle]

When you spray the vacuum lines while it's running, the carb cleaner or brakeclean will momentarily plug any leak, and the idle will change immediately. Then you'll know which hose you're after or at least suspect being bad.

Jim

oh wow. what an awesome tip !

thatll help me with my 66, too !

ill try it after class and let ya'll know


any ideas of which hoses, or what general area i should start?

 

[Windveil Blues]

Cool... please do...

Jim

oh wow. what an awesome tip !

thatll help me with my 66, too !

ill try it after class and let ya'll know

 

[beejay31000]

try the ones near the TB first.

 

[wickedstangs]

oh wow. what an awesome tip !

thatll help me with my 66, too !

ill try it after class and let ya'll know


any ideas of which hoses, or what general area i should start?

PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND DO NOT ACCIDENTALLY SPRAY YOUR HEADERS... TRUST ME PLEASE BE VERY CAREFULL DOING THIS.... BUT IT DOES WORK....

 

[beejay31000]

so....what happens if you get it on your headers??

 

[wickedstangs]

so....what happens if you get it on your headers??

I know they are suppose to be Non-Flammable but, some are..
MSDS

Remember the car has to be on to do the test and if you accidentally spray the hot headers FIRE FIRE...

 

[Gawthle]

Remember the car has to be on to do the test and if you accidentally spray the hot headers FIRE FIRE...

i've had my share of engine fires, but ill be careful

 

[beejay31000]

oh....

 

[Gawthle]

oh....

haha. and old junk yard motor we decided to fiddle with...it ended well for everyone involved, i think...just the middle part was sketchy, HAHA

 

[beejay31000]

sounds like fun....the closest to an engine fire ive ever been was when we rally'd a geo metro til it died then blew it up and had a party around it....fun times

 

[Gawthle]

ok, so finally found the battery for my camera, so here are the very delayed pictures

im hoping you guys will see something way out of place or obviosuly messed up and it will be a 2 second "plug that in"

i wish life were that easy:bs:

 

[beejay31000]

hmmmm, i really cant tell. its hard to really see everything in the pictures

 

[Gawthle]

and then here is the mess under my dash.......

 

[Gawthle]

hmmmm, i really cant tell. its hard to really see everything in the pictures

ya i know. it was night when i took em, and theres so much crap, i didntknow what to focus on

 

[wickedstangs]

Here are a couple of things I noticed.

 

[wickedstangs]

What is all that crap for? If you don't need it remove it. Looks like an alarm system, Which probably doesnt work anymore. Right