[DML] Re: Car almost dies when idling in drive

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To get the car to idle smoothly you need to go over the whole top of
the engine and fix every vacuum leak. Usually this means replacing all
the "O" rings, injector seals, vacuum hoses, gapping the spark plugs,
cleaning the fuel injectors, replacing the secondary ignition wires,
cap and rotor. Now you can troubleshoot the idle motor system, it
should hold the RPM's steady after you do all that. Since you messed
with the mixture screw you will also have to get the car on an
analyzer to get it set right. It should idle smoothly in park,
neutral, or drive automatic or manual.  You are finding out that many
problems underlie more serious ones and you don't know about them
until you fix the bigger ones, then the smaller ones now stand out.
BTW did you put a plug in the hole over the mixture screw? You should
change ALL the coolant hoses, they are all the same age and a leak
anywhere will cause the total loss of coolant.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Enid/Jeremiah <hispanicangeleyes@xxxx>
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>  
>   As my list of completed repairs becomes ever so longer, I have
stumbled upon a new problem.  This weekend, another DeLorean owner and
I did a couple repairs.  The repairs included adjusting that hole in
the air venturi to keep the car from continually running rich (used a
specific tool to adjust inside the hole from rich to a bit more lean -
this also fixed the car's "winding idle" problem where it would idle
up and down continuously from 900-2000rpm over and over when in park),
replaced all 18 fuses in the electrical system, replaced the front 




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