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Today I came home, and my car would hardly idle. I figured my intercooler hose had come apart again, so I opened the hood and sure enough it had. So I fixed that, but it still wouldnt idle. I checked all the hoses for my intercooler and BPV but everything was snug, i could hear a massive leak comming from somewhere so I started to feel around.

 

I found the leak, its comming from something on the back of my intake manifold. Seems there was something screwed into this doohicky, or maybe a plug of some sort. I found a bolt with the same thread, used some teflon tape and plugged it back up.

 

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All this after I removed my intercooler. Now my RX is Intercooless :(

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-Brian

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IIRC, thats the fast idle adjutment screw. Its a controlled vacuum leak( for idle compensation when the AC and such is on)... They aren't supposed to come out.. I have a spare crap manifold and I can't get that adjuster out to save my life.. On the other hand, I have lost 2 of those damn things from my wagon and 2 others on my old 88. I too have a thread sealed bolt in place there now.

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Yep Fast idle control. Join the club mine decided to eject itself from my intake manafold 500 miles from home. The car would run fine if I was cruising at zero vaccum. But idle or boost and foggedaboodit!! Found one at the junkyard but the o-ring was all crusty had to go find one at a hardware store.

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