i set up the timing and now it will start but wont idle - Page 2 - GTcarz

true_playa via CarKB.com · 2006-07-11 02:09:22

true_playa via CarKB.com wrote: > sorry my bad it is a 98 honda civic and i am positive that the cam and the > crank were perfect it just doesnt idle i will try the idle adjuster and i > will check the distributor i remember - you needed to tighten the timing belt. adjusting idle really is last resort here dude. once basic setting is made, it's all computer controlled so it shouldn't have to be touched during the life of the car. double, triple, quadruple check everything to ba absolutely certain before adjusting idle. sorry to labor the point, but if the belt's been done, it's really quite easy to be a tooth out. that'll account for your idle problems much better than the throttle body suddenly being out where it wasn't before. it'll make for different ignition timing too - another idle factor. > > jim beam wrote: > >>>i set up the timing exactly the way the book tells me but i start my car and >>>it wont stay idleing i can rev it and it will run but it just wont idle so i >>>dont know where to start one of my friends says that it might be the screw in >>>the distributor but i have no idea where to start >> >>you shorted out the timing adjust connector when setting timing, >>correct? and the cam timing's definitely correct? if so, and you've >>done nothing else that could cause this problem since the car last >>worked properly, proceed to setting the idle speed. disconnect the >>eacv, then adjust the idle screw on the throttle body. set it for the >>specified rpm, [750 on my civic], then reconnect the eacv. > >