Hi,

I'm driving my "new" car home from California. It's running...
A few problems - missing badly, but we changed the fuel filter and
hopefully fixed that. The latest is an idle problem.

It's a 1.8 L-Jet, stock configureation. On deceleration it's dropping
through the bottom and stalling most times. Idle hot seems too low as well.
I don't want to try a full repair, but I'm wondering if someone can show me
where the idle adjusment screw is. I'm hoping I can get the idle up far enough
so I don't have to heel and toe it all the time. Seems that I have seen
a picture of that screw, but can't find it right now! Any help would be much
appreciated!!

400 miles down, 1200 to go!

Thanks,

Jeff

seems like its running a tad lean.

I would venture a guess to say its a vac leak somewhere.

That idle should be dead on x rpm.

L-jet kinda drove me mad looking for airleaks, and once I thought I had them all taken care of, engine blows up from being too lean.

b

The idle screw is on the throttle body. You can access it from the top, IIRC, on a 1.8 liter.

--DD

If you are somewhere you can get the vacuum hoses, you should just replace them all, if they are all new, you should not have to guess which one is leaky, L jet is sensitive to the vac leaks..., how is the ignition timing?

Check your oil filler cap seal. No, I'm not joking. It is part of the system.

Good luck, let us know.

like the good Dr said the oil filler cap seal is very important with the L jet. if it does not seal all the vacume is screwy every where else.

Bernie