This thread details this beast what I've done, and still outstanding issues:
but simply put: 210K mi's, just had a tune up and it idles low, ~600-620.
Monday noon drove it about 35 highway miles home (~72mph, hit 80-85 a couple times), parked it for 6 hours, ran it for two short 5 minute trips parked it until Wednesday, 2PM.
7/8 tank of gas in it, it started right up, then shut right down. 4 times. 5th and 6th time I tried pumping the pedal a couple times before the start which made no differnce. 7th time I held the pedal to about 2K rpm's for ~15 secs, then eased off over the next 10 seconds and when I let go-- it shut.It was as if it had no idle at all.
Several minutes later (after fiddling with the plug wires by pushing down on them firmly, on both ends) I tried to 2 more times (in the manner of the very
1st attempt) and it just shut.I decided to try one more time like time #7 before calling a tow, and this time, it stayed running-- with the normal (for this car) idle.
10 minute discussion with my mechanic led to the possibiltiy of IAC-- which I cleaned very well only a few weeks ago. Could the IAC get "stuck", perhaps be going bad? I postulated the fuel pump (bad pressure perhaps-- which could also be the source of my low idle).Any thoughts?
Thanks.