I decided to try to smooth my idle out before work...I followed the instructions, now my car won't start....during the adjusting, my RPMs were around 600, the tech article says it should be at 450, so I kept moving it down and down...well, I stalled the engine and...now my engine won't start...any ideas?


- Dave

Did you make sure you reconnected the iac, removed the jumper in the aldl terminal and did you try giving it some throttle when you tried starting it. Did you try opening the blades by turning the set screw the other way after it stalled?

yes I did all that....the battery is reading 12.76...but its like the current isn't strong or something...because the door locks are weak, the chime for when you leave your keys in isn't that great...could I have killed the battery? The fan was running whenever I had the A and B connections in...and I had it running for a while...I don't know, its really wierd.

So the engine won't even turn over? Check your conections at the battery and if that dosn't work try jumping it.

nope, won't even turn over....I have the charger on it now...I hope that I didn't fry my ECM or something like that :/

The computer has nothing to do with it turning over so no need to worry about that.

Well, just got back from work, what I'm thinking is somehow testing the ECM, to see if its bad or not in the first place, and then checking all my fuses. My dad messed with it a little bit and he said that whenever the charger charged the battery to full, only the dome light would come on my (BRAND NEW!!!!) stereo wouldn't work, headlights wouldn't work, wouldn't even hit the starter....so I'm thinking checking all the fuses / fusable links tomorrow, I'm sure this isn't a big deal it just kind of pisses me off......thanks you've been a help