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- From: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
- Subject: Re: Why does car stall when going downhill or sudden stops???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.000006.8436@tandem.com>
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- Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug14.144423.15095@gvl.unisys.com> <26612@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:00:06 GMT
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- In article <26612@life.ai.mit.edu>, pwu@pop-tarts.ai.mit.edu (Peng Wu) writes:
- |> car are more venerable than others. In fact, I have a 85 Ford Tempo which
- |> some time stalls when I break at idle, especially while parallel parking and
- |> the power steering is at full load. I haven't figure out how to fix the
- |> problem since the idle speed is not adjustable on this car.
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- If your car has the 2.3L fuel injected engine & automatic transmission
- send me some e-mail. I have figured out this problem on my 1987 Topaz
- and solved how to adjust idle speed. Hint: there is an idle speed
- throttle stop adjustment screw that will raise idle speed under
- certain conditions.
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