High Idle

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donatien

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1,113 posts

260 months

Thursday 14th November 2002
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Probably a common question here.

Intermittent thing - in traffic or at a stop, clutch down and engine stays at about 1,800 - 2,000 on idle before settling to normal after 5-10 seconds. If I let out the clutch a bit to biting point revs drop and then stay down.

Is this the old stepper motor or a rough throttle linkage? The factory cleaned out the stepper motor 2,500 miles back at the 18,000 service and said it looked ok.

Ta

donatien

Original Poster:

1,113 posts

260 months

Thursday 14th November 2002
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Cheers chaps.

Driving home tonight - no real bother. Well it hovered at 1,500 once at some lights but only for a few seconds. It seems worse when it's been fully warmed up, had a blast and then stop/start for a while.

Is it easy enough to clean this stepper motor or even replace? I've got Steves book and I'm adequate rather than tasty with a spanner.

DT