The car has a multitude of problems but my current predicment is it supttering extremely bad, idiling so low it stalls out if i take my foot off the gas, and it is running EXTREMELY rich. I pulled & changed the plugs and they were completely black. I couldn't find any obvious vacuum leaks using the smokers test and the timing hasn't been touched. No CEL's. The car is an 88 5spd civic. Thanks for the help.

 

First thing I would do is take the IACV off and thoroughly clean it out with brake cleaner.

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After that I would follow the shop manual guide instructions for properly setting your idle through adjustment of the idle screw.

What oil and filter are you using at the moment?

 

right now i'm using castrol GTX 5w30 and a fram filter. and i have no idea where the idle adjustment screw is on this car. Crap like this is why i love my MSII on my EGTT

 

Cleaned out IACV and it didnt help. Still cant find idle air control screw. and i'm still getting like 10-12mpg. I checked the ecu codes and i think i'm getting a code 1 but i'm not really sure. it just blinks over and over with maybe a 1 sec pause between blinks. Never gives me the long pause like it should for another code. Anyone have a guess as to why my A/F went to **** randomly?

 

that is one code. keep counting the blinks and thats ur problem. it will pause for a longer period if its a different code

 

yeah....i did that and lost count around 30ish...i need to find the list of codes. i know its on here somewhere....

 

heres the codes for 30 and after. these are the only 4 codes for after 30

30: A/T Fi signal A
31: A/T Fi siganl B
41: Fuel Supply System
48: H02S{3}

 

i looked again and i'm pretty sure i'm just getting code 1 cuz the interval between blinks never changed for a solid like 2 minutes...I just wasnt sure what the time intervals were supposed to look like due to this being my first honda.