Tough on a cold engine, hard on the clutch, increases gas consumption,
and is just a thorn in the side purely because it's a machine that is
not running like it'supposed to, which is for the serious (make that
anal) owner or mechanic  , pure anathema.

Mines doing the same thing, so I'm going to work on it this weekend.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Vicki Derrer wrote:

> Hi all you gurus,
>     What would be the cause of a consistent, unwavering idle of 1900
> rpm on
> a manual transmission 85 Westy with 130K miles and a rebuilt engine?
> In
> discussing this with my mechanic prior to taking it in next week, he
> says it
> "could be" one of two parts, each costing about $150 without labor,
> and
> possibly both of them.  And, how bad is it to have such a high idle,
> anyway?
> What damage does it cause?
>     TIA, Vicki

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