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sean.m.cunningham
Hello,
First, I want to say thanks for all the advice everyone gave my about
getting my rotors off. (They're still stuck on, BTW. Not even the pry
bar and hammer got them off!)
Anyway, I want to drive the car to a shop to get the rotors off. But I
start it, and it immediately dies if I don't keep on the gas. It'll
stall as soon as I try to let it idle or if I take my foot off the gas
to brake. Even upping the tension on the throttle cable to make it idle
abnormally high won't work, it have be be in motion or revving high to
not stall.
Anyway, I took off my AMM to take a look at it, and it was covered in
oil (the insides; outside was just dusty). The air tube between the AMM
and the intake manifold was all oily, but the one from the air box to
the AMM was pretty clean.
I just sprayed the AMM out with brake cleaner to see if it would help
things. I'm gonna put it on tomorrow after I get a chance to clean the
oil from the air hose. I know, brake cleaner was a poor choice of
solvent, but I figured that if I was gonna do something half-assed like
try to clean an AMM instead of replacing it, I might as well go whole
hog and do a TOTALLY half-assed job
I tried to find the PCV system and see if the flame trap was plugged. I
think I found the PCV system, but there was no flame trap! It was a
tube running from the intake manifold to the crankcase.Both the tube
and the pipe sticking out of the crankcase were a bit grimy (black
sludge) but there was no clogging; just a thin layer.
So, where would the oil getting into the intake manifold come from?
Intake valves? PCV problem? Maybe it was overfilled with oil at some
point and it sloshed up the PCV system? Any advice would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
First, I want to say thanks for all the advice everyone gave my about
getting my rotors off. (They're still stuck on, BTW. Not even the pry
bar and hammer got them off!)
Anyway, I want to drive the car to a shop to get the rotors off. But I
start it, and it immediately dies if I don't keep on the gas. It'll
stall as soon as I try to let it idle or if I take my foot off the gas
to brake. Even upping the tension on the throttle cable to make it idle
abnormally high won't work, it have be be in motion or revving high to
not stall.
Anyway, I took off my AMM to take a look at it, and it was covered in
oil (the insides; outside was just dusty). The air tube between the AMM
and the intake manifold was all oily, but the one from the air box to
the AMM was pretty clean.
I just sprayed the AMM out with brake cleaner to see if it would help
things. I'm gonna put it on tomorrow after I get a chance to clean the
oil from the air hose. I know, brake cleaner was a poor choice of
solvent, but I figured that if I was gonna do something half-assed like
try to clean an AMM instead of replacing it, I might as well go whole
hog and do a TOTALLY half-assed job
I tried to find the PCV system and see if the flame trap was plugged. I
think I found the PCV system, but there was no flame trap! It was a
tube running from the intake manifold to the crankcase.Both the tube
and the pipe sticking out of the crankcase were a bit grimy (black
sludge) but there was no clogging; just a thin layer.
So, where would the oil getting into the intake manifold come from?
Intake valves? PCV problem? Maybe it was overfilled with oil at some
point and it sloshed up the PCV system? Any advice would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance!