Jonathan, you can't get the right idle on a 1.9 unless you have the timing
correct.  When the timing is right on, idle should be around 1 turn CCW back
on the idle screw.

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Farrugia" <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:49 PM
Subject: adjusting idle on 1.9

> i was trying to adjust the idle on a 1.9 today and wasn't having much
> success.  i had the idle screw all the way backed out and i couldn't get
> above 1000 rpms.  right now the idle is hanging around 800-825 and the
> idle seems real choppy to me.  some additional information is that the
> throttle body has some light scraping on the bottom where the butterfly
> plate is starting to scrape on the throttle body housing.  this is also
> an automatic and i haven't played with automatics before.  any ideas and
> information that you can provide is appreciated.
>
> jonathan