96 Integra special edition (LS)
all stock.

car's idle would drop very low whenever i shift into gear at a cold start. it happens a lot when its overnight and i come out in the morning. sometime it will die out completely. i would re-timed it and the problem seem to disappear for a couple days but then return. i change all spark plugs to make sure its running up to par, everything is stock. i was thinking it could be my IACV but not sure. not very familiar with those. all i did to it was take the throttle body off and spary the throttle body and IACV with carb clearner. how can i tell if my IACV is working properly? oh yeah the car does not throw any codes. please help. thank you.

 

check your fast idle thermo valve

 

what do you want me to check for?

 

bump

 

ok here's an update. i still did not do anything to the car yet because nobody has post anything for me to check. but this morning i started it up, i let it warm up for about a min. but it still died out.

what i'm planning to do is re-clean out my IACV. anything else anybody can sugest me?

 

You said re-time?

it keep pulling time?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by deftonerider &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">check your fast idle thermo valve</TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lv6l &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> i still did not do anything to the car yet because nobody has post anything for me to check. </TD></TR></TABLE>

he did post something for you to"check", you just must not know how to "check"/adjust it

 

what he post is to check my fitv. what i meant was i was unsure of what to check in the fitv. i can locate it, remove it and look at it. but what do you guys want me to do with it? thats what i meant.

 

bump.

 

its not the IACV.... my teg is doing the asme thing


ok on the Fast thermal Control vavle... and im ganna do this weekend.... take off the 2 bolts/screws (mine are screws) and there is a plastic wax plunger ... and my tech told me to turn it all the way in and see what it does... so img anna do it and post up ...

 

ok, i tried again to clean out the IACV becacuse i went out to check and i see its pretty dirty. at the same time i clean out my throttle body and took off the FITV off the throttle body. i see the plastic donut plunger looking thing and i did turn it all the way in. it didnt go in much because it was mostly in already. i spray throttle body and IACV with carb cleaner. shook all the liquid out. i put everything back and on a cold start now it wantns to die out, even on park. same thing with reverse, nutural, and drive. its wierd becacuse it would drop extrememly low, but does not die out, but then after a few seconds it would slowly move up and idle at 1300rpm or so. does anyone know whats going on now? im gonna double check the timing tomorrow.

 

just making sure guys, on the FITV, to raise idle which direction should i turn the "donut/plunger" looking thing? in or out?