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1995 Camry, idle issue

I have a 1995 Camry LE wagon with the 4 cylinder engine. On several occasions, the engine has almost stalled when I was stopping for a red light. All of a sudden the engine RPM would drop below 750. If I shifted to neutral and applied gas, the engine would recover and the car would have no problems for the rest of the trip. The times (4) that this has occurred, the engine was fully warmed up (often after driving at highway speeds). It only happen right before coming to a full stop on level payment. My mechanic tried cleaning the throttle body but it didn't help. Any ideas? This has happen 4-5 times over the last 6 months.

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noname87
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The car has 130K miles on it, a automatic transmission, no check engine lights are on, no other trouble lights are on and o/d light is not blinking. The transmission is in the normal mode (overdrive on, power setting off). Of the two times it happen to me (the others happen to the wife), once was stooping at a light coming off a highway and the other was when I was pulling into a parking spot after drive on local roads for 10 minutes after coming off a major highway.

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noname87

This sounds like it could be the Idle Air Control valve(IAC) is binding, and needs to be cleaned or replaced. I've had symptoms like that with the engine right after cold start and warmed up engine. I am not familiar with the 95 camry (I have a 97), but if it is anything like most of the 4 cyl engines that powered the camry in the

90's... (Being that my expirience is with the 97 4 cyl. the described locations on your engine might be different.) remove the air hose that goes to the throttle body, in the throttle body (bottom towards the front) you will see a "squarish" hole, this leads to the IAC valve. My remedy was to spray throttle body cleaner(USE ONLY a solvent that is Oxygen sensor safe) into that hole(Engine OFF) let it soak for a few minutes, repeat 2 or 3 times than put everything back and start the engine. If that did not help, run the engine and spray the solvent in(a small amount at a time) as you accelerate/decelerate it. HTH JerryR
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yjrybano2spam

Sounds like the idle air control valve. Google on how to clean this thing, it's below the throttle body. Not bad for all the miles, the newer ones, maybe because of higher engine temperature required for low emissions status, gums up every year or two.

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johngdole

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