MX3 gods, please help me...
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MX3 gods, please help me...
Hi everyone. I've scoured the forums to find something like this, but i think I have a new problem here...
So my idle sits around 600 - 650... i went through the following steps:
Start her up, warm her to normal operating temperature
Shut down
Jumped GND and TEN with a paperclip
Start engine, adjust screw to desired RPM (i wanted to set 800, so i did that)
It ran fine, so I pulled the paperclip out, she immediately drops to ~500 for approx 10 secs
Turned it off.
Started again, rpm @ 600...
Am i doing something wrong? Or is something broke?
So my idle sits around 600 - 650... i went through the following steps:
Start her up, warm her to normal operating temperature
Shut down
Jumped GND and TEN with a paperclip
Start engine, adjust screw to desired RPM (i wanted to set 800, so i did that)
It ran fine, so I pulled the paperclip out, she immediately drops to ~500 for approx 10 secs
Turned it off.
Started again, rpm @ 600...
Am i doing something wrong? Or is something broke?
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
I'm sorry I'm confused... What exactly is wrong with your car? Idle is supposed to be right around 600.
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
The idle usually drops once you exit diagnostic mode, so you set it a couple hundred rpm's higher than your target.
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Ha that's funny. With the V6 we set it at 650 and it goes to 700 out of diag mode. The opposite of the BP.
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
Lol... yeah, i was reading the manual on the engine, and everywhere i read suggests 750-800 for the B6, so i was working on attaining that... i'll try setting her a little higher tomorrow. Thanks for the help ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
Tried it again today - same thing happened ![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
set idle RPM to be 1000, pulled the paperclip, shut down the engine. started it up again, and it went to 1000 for about 5 seconds before reverting to 600 and sounding like it was gunna die...
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set idle RPM to be 1000, pulled the paperclip, shut down the engine. started it up again, and it went to 1000 for about 5 seconds before reverting to 600 and sounding like it was gunna die...
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
have you tried cleaning your IACV? or check your cooling system as well, could have air bubbles in it messin with your idle valve. good luck bro ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
Your not supposed to pull the paperclip out while the engine is running you have to shut it down the pull it out. Its kinda like By-passing the electronics to manually adjusting the idle without the computer knowing.
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
Wrong. Shop Manual94mx3precidia wrote:Your not supposed to pull the paperclip out while the engine is running you have to shut it down the pull it out. Its kinda like By-passing the electronics to manually adjusting the idle without the computer knowing.
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
So in a continuing fit of weirdness, on the drive to work, the idle was still 600.... 11 hours later on the drive home, the idle was 850, but dropped to 700 when i was in neutral with the clutch out
I am so confused lol
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I am so confused lol
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
Sounds like a wonky IAC to me, I could be wrong though....
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Re: MX3 gods, please help me...
ya thats what i thought too, maybe just a cleaning could fix it, but check cooling system as well.
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