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slow idle on cold start after air mass meter change 700 1988

I looking for an answer to why my 760 Turbo is idling too slow after I had a repair done. The garage installed a new air mass meter. The problem started with the car quiting when my wife was driving on the highway. The garage found the problem to be the air mass meter which they changed. Since then it idles too slow on a cold start causing it to stop as soon as it is put in drive. I've have had it back to the garage several times without success and am now questioning if they know what they are doing. It idles at about 600 RPM's.
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    They need to ground the IAC pig tail (passenger side near battery with co2 test point in same harness to set the AMM ) and then set the idle using the bypass valve. set idle to about 650, remove ground and ECU should bring idle to about 750. This assumes they haven't messed with the throttle body adjustments which should be verified.

    Of course if they don't know how to ground pigtail for IAC then they certainly didn't know how to set the AMM by attaching a dwell meter to test point and set for an even deflection back and for and then lean towards 40 degrees dwell on meter for slightly rich.(you can use diode method but it is impossible to tell which way to turn to get going or the Volvo tool but for 20.00 a dwell/rpm meter is good for the toolbox anyway) Turn AMM to right to move needle to right turn left to move needle left. It is a very fine adjustment to get the needle to bounce back and forth. May require several turns to get a response.

    Good luck, J

    ps I doubt the AMM would cause intermittant failure. Even when bad they will go into "limp home" state. Have you resoldered fuel pump relay and the radio suppression relays? They are much more likely to cause intermittant failure.



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