*** How-To*** Clean Your FITV aka Fast Idle Thermo Valve
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chee_dog »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Is there chances of a bad FITV or IACV?? </TD></TR></TABLE>
Yes
Yes
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i just found something out... now days i usually start car cold with heat to the max... it idles fine for about 3-4 min then starts fast idling... i get in the car and turn off all the heat then the fast idle stops.. i assuming that if i dont turn the heat on after the car is warm, the fast idle will stop.... what could be causing?
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chee_dog »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i just found something out... now days i usually start car cold with heat to the max... it idles fine for about 3-4 min then starts fast idling... i get in the car and turn off all the heat then the fast idle stops.. i assuming that if i dont turn the heat on after the car is warm, the fast idle will stop.... what could be causing? </TD></TR></TABLE>
bleed your coolant or check your thermostat
bleed your coolant or check your thermostat
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Just changed my O2 sensor yesterday, no more idle fluctuation! So I don't know, I'll probably just wait to clean my IACV and FITV when I pull the engine out of the car this summer. Looks like it would be a TON easier to get to that stuff with the engine on a stand.
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Re: *** How-To*** Clean Your FITV aka Fast Idle Thermo Valve (wildoutwhitegsr)
my car idles bad. i replaced the IACV and its still idle ling.....what should i do? adjust idle? FITV? please help
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Re: *** How-To*** Clean Your FITV aka Fast Idle Thermo Valve (lilpastrana)
Hopefully this will work i bought an IACV and put it on no change so I am going to try this next sunday and pray that it works
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just block the little hole on the FITValve that goes to the manifold, did that and my car idles, warms up normal and runs with no problems.the valve seems very usless to me, but this is temp cuz im puttin a diff mani with out it.re run all lines and eliminating most the vaccum lines that go to the cannister, forget emissions.
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Re: *** How-To*** Clean Your FITV aka Fast Idle Thermo Valve (wildoutwhitegsr)
Hey, Awsome write up. My car idle up and down for the last two years and couldn't fiqure out what was wrong with it until i found this. Thanks alot my car sounds so quite now..
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i heard that you will have to help the car warm up when on a cold start but as soon as its at temp it should be fine??? just what i heard but ima try it caz i have no more options.
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this thing WORKS!!! i took out my whole throttle body earlier and just took the FITV and whatnot and cleaned everything up with brake cleaner. put it back in and my car FINALLY idles like a champ!! cold start up my idle would be up to 3000-3200 then slowly work its way down to 1600-1700 in which it'll stay there. after the clean up, now it idles at 800-1k! back to its original idle! great write up! this was a lot of help.
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My problem is i have a surging idle at cold start while the A/C is On. The problem would dissapear once i turn the A/C Off or the engine gets to normal operating temp.
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Re: *** How-To*** Clean Your FITV aka Fast Idle Thermo Valve (wildoutwhitegsr)
Hi, Recently my CRV has started dying when cold. The idle is fine when it's warm but when its cold it just dies as soon as I take my foot off the gas pedal or put it into drive. This seems to be the reverse of the problems you describe. Do you hink this will also be caused by the FITV?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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i have a d15bvtec n my situation is it idles at 1200-1500 on cold start eventually comes to 900 but when reaching optimal temp it drops doen to like 300 odd n then is fine sometimes until I stop at a traffic light n suddenly shes down again