>Date:    Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:07:00 -0800
>From:    Tom Young <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
>Subject: Re: Bad Idle Stabilizer?
>
>Only because you didn't explicitly say it, I'll ask.... You did tighten the
>distributor locknut before starting the engine the second time, right?

Yes!

>There's an actual procedure in Bentley for testing the idle stabilizer but
>I've always figured it was working if the timing was "jittery" after it was
>plugged in.

The timing is jittery, but it's also about 5-10 degrees advanced from
where I set it w/o the idle stabilizer, which just seems wrong to me.

Further info: This is an 85 with digijet (in case that wasn't clear).
I went ahead and disconnected the idle stabilizer, reset the timing
and idle, and drove it around for 30 minutes, leaving the idle
stabilizer disconnected.

It ran fine -- the only problem was that when I returned home and the
van was fully warmed up, the idle was high.

So I'm leaning towards the conclusion that something is wrong with my
stabilizer.