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Old Mar 19, 2001 | 03:59 PM
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would running lean at idle damage engine???

If the blm is at around 135ish in park and 130 in drive would any damage be caused. I was thinking that running a little lean with no load(in park) would not damage the engine at all. And would there be other times that one would want the blm to be a little lean??
Just curious to see what everyone thinks.


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Old Mar 19, 2001 | 05:37 PM
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by mike89z:
If the blm is at around 135ish in park and 130 in drive would any damage be caused. I was thinking that running a little lean with no load(in park) would not damage the engine at all. And would there be other times that one would want the blm to be a little lean??
Just curious to see what everyone thinks.
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It's not **lean**, it's taking a correction of enrichment to get to 14.7 is all.

Ideally you MIGHT want 128 but some engines for drivibility might like other then 128.


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Old Mar 19, 2001 | 09:24 PM
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I meant when you first start when it is in open loop.

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Old Mar 20, 2001 | 12:07 PM
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How are you determining a lean condition? What are your spark plugs telling you? You dont sound lean to me, 130 is a normal range that means the computer is not having to adjust much from whatever the programmed value is. At idle, my blm is 147, meaning mine is a lot leaner, and it is having to add more fuel to compensate.
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Old Mar 20, 2001 | 08:19 PM
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You'll have a miss if the ECM isn't compensating for the lean mixture.

Paul
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