Low idle and stalling at low rpm's
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Low idle and stalling at low rpm's after close hydrolock call
I was out wheeling today and thought I hydrolocked it up. Water up over the hood and she stalled, we got pulled out and pulled the plugs, they were all dry and cyclinders were dry " thank god" tail pipe was completely full of mud and swamp crap. I scrapped out what I could and comtinued on the trail, not long after I lost all low rpm cababilities and it would stall out more often than not. I had to get her home so I poked a few holes in the muffler (sand/silt pored out) this helped but no where near normal idle. So I'm thinking my cat may also be full of silt and crap, this would cause my symptoms wouldn't it? The air filter was immediately swapped out and all hoses from air box to intake were removed and checked for water when it happened and they were pretty much dry. I have another exhaust system from cat back, should I swap them out and see if this fixes it, is it worth doing or could it be something else?
This was taken just before she died!!
This was taken just before she died!!
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I'm thinking with the exhaust system full of gunk that there is to much backpressure for the low rpm's, I'm not much of a wrencher so I'm asking also is this theory correct?
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I think the exhaust would give you that symptom. Also make sure your throttle body is clean- especially where air passes by the throttle blade at idle.
As far as your hot temperatures, you may have mud clogging the fins on your radiator. Take a garden hose with not too high of pressure and clean it out if that is the case.
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As far as your hot temperatures, you may have mud clogging the fins on your radiator. Take a garden hose with not too high of pressure and clean it out if that is the case.
Good luck
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I got the exahust swapped and it made a bit of difference but not back to normal. So of to the store for some throttle body cleaner. I removed from air box to plenum and cleaned it all out, it was oily kind of black sooty stuff. swapped in new pluggs and she's almost back to normal. It's idling normal 800-900 rpm until it's warm then it drops down to 500-600 rpm's. Any ideas?
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I got the exahust swapped and it made a bit of difference but not back to normal. So of to the store for some throttle body cleaner. I removed from air box to plenum and cleaned it all out, it was oily kind of black sooty stuff. swapped in new pluggs and she's almost back to normal. It's idling normal 800-900 rpm until it's warm then it drops down to 500-600 rpm's. Any ideas?
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I've tried this, it still drops to the 500-600rpm range. I'm thinking it's missing, plugs have been changed out should I be looking at witre and dist.?
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