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Subject:Re: Idle hunts except when in gear
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:36:36 -0400

At 10:26 PM 3/16/2011, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>that the throttle switch makes contact at idle is a very important input ..
>It's almost rare that I find them working correctly on these 25 year old

However - if the switch *is* working and the idle is high, the
deceleration fuel shutoff kicks in much earlier than it does on the
2.1l, not that much above 1000 rpm.  On an '84 with no tach I think
you could easily have an idle high enough to trigger it without it
sounding too unusual.  And if you're nibbling at the edge of the
decel mode, that will make the idle hunt for sure.

Yrs,
d