Hi all... I've got a 99 Legacy, 2.2L, auto... and, as I found out yesterday, the California emmission system. Car has been weak since we bought it so I did spark plugs and wires. Also tried to un-do the Oxy. sensor, but decided it was too difficult for a quick tune up. Now the car has much more power (Yay!), but the idle is too high. It's idling constantly at about 1500 rpm. No surging and it doesn't seem to change with temp. I'm heading out to see if I can find something I disconnected and forgot to reconnect or a vaccuum line I may have knocked off....

 

Anyone have any possible culprits? It wasn't doing it before the tuneup and started immediately upon starting the engine after the tuneup....

 

ideas???? We're leaving on an 8 hour trip in the morning and I'd like to get this bug worked out this afternoon....

 

Thanks,

Mike

Did you by any chance knock off the vacume hose at the snoorkus box or air intake box (everyone seems to do this).

 

nipper

I will take a look to double check... but as usually happens, the car has made me look like an idiot by fixing itself! Go in this evening and it was idling fine now... maybe it 'learned' how to handle the additional power gained from the new plugs and wires. Or... Maybe I'm clinically insane.

 

Thanks!

Mike

Did you have the battery disconnected?

I will take a look to double check... but as usually happens, the car has made me look like an idiot by fixing itself! Go in this evening and it was idling fine now... maybe it 'learned' how to handle the additional power gained from the new plugs and wires. Or... Maybe I'm clinically insane.

 

Thanks!

Mike

 

i dont mind Blu making me look like an idiot, its the snickering i can't stand

 

 

nipper

Hi all... I've got a 99 Legacy, 2.2L, auto.

hey mike - i'm in morgantown too!?!?

 

i'd check those vaccuum lines again - the main ones that you would have come in contact with around the air box anyway.

 

hopefully you used Subaru (or magnecor) wires? these engines are notorious about not using any aftermarket brands for ignition wires and NGK plugs. this is only true of the EJ engines (Like yours), not Subaru.

i dont mind Blu making me look like an idiot, its the snickering i can't stand

 

Yours does that, too?

I come to the conclusion you don't just fix Subarus, you massage them into submission.