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Re: Occasional starting hiccup-Causes? 200 1984

posted by  someone claiming to be Malcom on  Sun Dec 9 08:23 CST 2001 [RELATED]

My '84 GL w/EFI was behaving like you describe, the problem on my car turned out to be a dirty throttle body. The idle air bypass motor (right name?) was having to open more than normal to allow enough air into the engine for a good idle. Sometimes I would start the car and it would run fine, other times it would catch and then die. The mechanic who cleaned it out had a little tube with a 180 joint on it, so most of the oily crud would be blasted out of the TB, instead of down the intake. I was amazed at the amount of gunk that came out! After this was done, the car started and ran perfectly.





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