Car tries to die because of heat?
06-29-2012, 12:45 PM
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Car: 1986 camaro Sports Coupe
Engine: L31 350
Transmission: 89 700R4
Axle/Gears: 3.42 gov lock
Car tries to die because of heat?
Here lately out temps have been around 100 degrees and over that with the heat index, could this cause out cars to not want to run at idle? Reason I ask is because if my car is in gear and idling like at a stop light it will start shaking and bouncing at idle and try to stall out. If I put it out of gear it idles back up alittle to like 550 and stops shaking. It's never done this before so I'm thinking it's just this extreme heat? Help
06-30-2012, 08:00 PM
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Re: Car tries to die because of heat?
Borderline partial vapor-lock? Is such a thing even possible? If so, that'd be my first guess.
06-30-2012, 08:55 PM
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Car: 1986 camaro Sports Coupe
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Axle/Gears: 3.42 gov lock
Re: Car tries to die because of heat?
Idk, iv wrapped my lines with aluminum foil to stop this because it vapor locked before so I wrapped my lines
06-30-2012, 09:47 PM
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Re: Car tries to die because of heat?
I'd expect it to be bad if trying to idle below about 650 RPM. A 550 RPM idle is barely possible even for a stock 350 in perfect tune. If you can't adjust the idle speed up, then you may have to try removing the TB and drilling a small bleed through the throttle blade. If that hurts rather than helping, epoxy it shut. Before that, how about the IAC valve? Does it even have one? If so, is it carbon-clogged? How's the setting on the TPS?
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Car: 1986 camaro Sports Coupe
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Re: Car tries to die because of heat?
i may adjust the tps tomorrow, its just weird because it was running fine, it use to run like this before i got my ac fixed, after i got that fixed it ran like a top so i quit messing with anything and left it, and now its just getting bad.
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