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Subject:Re: Idle control valve and very cold weather?
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:15:30 -0800

WBX Idle Stabilizer is fine at any temp, 1.9 and 2.1 both - but you have a
non-standard engine so...

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

>  It the idle control valve prone to problems during cold weather?  I
> replaced mine with a new one last fall..and today it again started doing
> the
> "1500 rpm.....down to normal idle....1500rpm.....down to normal idle...
> cycle.  Zero degree weather overnight and not going above about 10f all
> day.  Van would not start without a bit of throttle either, first thing
> this
> morning...The cycling of the idle speed was this evening..and lasted for
> about 10 miles until the van was really up to warm temps.  Exact symptoms I
> had from a failed Idle Control Valve...One shouldn't fail in under one
> year,
> right?  Hope not they are not cheap .
>  Do these things ice up or get sluggish in extreme cold?
>   Don Hanson
>

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Jake

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