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Old Nov 18, 2008 | 12:50 PM
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slugish take off

well this has been a problem fopr a while and it never relly botherd me till now what its diong is when stoped the car will sometimes just stall and if at a light and i try to just slowley come out of the stop it will act slugish if i floor it she goes and tester day with the car running i poped the hood and moved the thrittle by hand and after 1/4 inch or so she droped in rpms and after 5 or 6 sec she sputterd and backfired and as soon as i let the throttle go back to idle thr ran fine eny ideas would be awsome thanks
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Old Nov 18, 2008 | 03:02 PM
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Re: slugish take off

The first thing that I would try is to clean your throttle body. It usually causes it to idle rough when it's dirty. Just go to the auto parts store and pick up a can of throttle body cleaner for fuel injected throttle bodies.

I see you live in dunnellon and that you're a student... do you go to CFCC, if so I think you were in my english class last year. I know he had a red 2.8 firebird that looks just like the on in your picture.
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Old Nov 18, 2008 | 04:23 PM
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Re: slugish take off

yep good idea to clean out the throttle body and iac passage while cleaning.. check the tb gasket. a leak there can cause rough idle/ hesistation also
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Old Nov 19, 2008 | 01:04 PM
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Re: slugish take off

yep thays me going to cfcc il try to clean the throttle boddy out a bit and see that hapens thanks
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