Stalling, bad idling, where to turn?!
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Car: '91 Camaro RS
Engine: 3.1 V6
Stalling, bad idling, where to turn?!
'91 RS with the 3.1 v6.
New fuel filter, fuel pump, thermostat, distributor, plugs, wires are good, fixed the EGR(maybe something still wrong with it). Checked vacuum lines, they seemed ok. No recent codes, I did have a 43 before with was ESC. (electronic spark control) but now, even with the stalling, no codes are shown. The car has 145,000 on it, and she was sitting in a garage from 2000 to about 2008, with front end damage. Airbags blew, front smashed in, no hood. Then it sat outside in the conditions for about a year. Until I got my hands on it, then I fixed the body and now the motor is giving me hell.
The issue is that it misses under 2000 rpms. The idle only lasts for 5-10 seconds and then it dies. Starts back up pretty good. When I give it a constant flow of gas it runs fine. The motor is strong. When Im going down the road real slow, she will more than likely stall on me. If I come to pretty much any stop, she stalls. Sometimes she will sit there and idle like a champ for 5 minutes and then start her bitching. The gauges all read right too. I also ran a bottle of injector cleaner, and dry gas through it. Now Im running the **** out of it through the roads around here, trying to get something to give. I cant think of anything else that it could be.
If you need anymore info, I got it all. I'm really stumped right now, I just cant think of what the problem could be. Thanks for any thoughts and opinions.
New fuel filter, fuel pump, thermostat, distributor, plugs, wires are good, fixed the EGR(maybe something still wrong with it). Checked vacuum lines, they seemed ok. No recent codes, I did have a 43 before with was ESC. (electronic spark control) but now, even with the stalling, no codes are shown. The car has 145,000 on it, and she was sitting in a garage from 2000 to about 2008, with front end damage. Airbags blew, front smashed in, no hood. Then it sat outside in the conditions for about a year. Until I got my hands on it, then I fixed the body and now the motor is giving me hell.
The issue is that it misses under 2000 rpms. The idle only lasts for 5-10 seconds and then it dies. Starts back up pretty good. When I give it a constant flow of gas it runs fine. The motor is strong. When Im going down the road real slow, she will more than likely stall on me. If I come to pretty much any stop, she stalls. Sometimes she will sit there and idle like a champ for 5 minutes and then start her bitching. The gauges all read right too. I also ran a bottle of injector cleaner, and dry gas through it. Now Im running the **** out of it through the roads around here, trying to get something to give. I cant think of anything else that it could be.

If you need anymore info, I got it all. I'm really stumped right now, I just cant think of what the problem could be. Thanks for any thoughts and opinions.
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Re: Stalling, bad idling, where to turn?!
Only thing I can think of would be the ISC (Idle speed control). Check your grounds one may have been kocked loose in the wreck.
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