Help with idle

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Tineca
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Post Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:21 pm

Hi the car is new to me and been off the road a while. It won't come down from 1200 revs even when warm. I removed the throttle body and the air flow metre from the car and cleaned with carb cleaner. They were a bit oily. No obvious air leaks. Sprayed the manifold and pipes with carb cleaner but no rise I revs. Checked the water slide valve, that works. Had it in a jug of hot water and you can see it working. Any ideas? Thanks Jed
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I checked the idle screw on the l tronic air flow metre and it only works by increasing the idle. I removed the thing below and connected the pipe direct from the inlet manifold to the dizzy. It reduced the idle but ran lumpy. Any thoughts
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Brianmoooore
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Post Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:05 pm

I've locked this post because you have two threads on the same subject. If members start replying to two posts they will diverge and confusion will reign.
Please make any replies to the above post in the other thread.