Stalling at idle

[Chris]

So today I've been driving the legacy. When it's warm sometimes (like 10% of the time) it will stall at idle. It pulls fine, runs great, starts easy, but stalls.

It happens after driving. I'll push in the clutch to coast down a hill, stop at a stop sign, etc and it will just die. It doesn't even idle at all, goes from running rpm and drops to 0 as fast as if I turned off the key.

I don't have a CEL, and as I said before, runs great. No hesitation or anything at all.

 

[Mark]

heh. check out my thread "car turns off randomly whilst driving"

sounds EXACTLY the same.

 

[Mark]

unplug the MAF and await results.

 

[Tyler]

Yeah, I said it once, I'll say it again. MAF ... or adjust the idle screw. Does it always idle low, or just sometimes?

 

[Chris]

Yeah, I said it once, I'll say it again. MAF ... or adjust the idle screw. Does it always idle low, or just sometimes?

It never idles low. 90% of the time it will just idle right at 700 RPMs (by my scangauge, so I know it's correct). When it stalls it doesn't idle low, it doesn't shake like engines do when idling to low, it just shuts right off.

 

[IBratmanI]

It's junk, sell it to me for 500 bucks.......solved problem!!

 

[Mark]

same with me numbers, it just cuts out. picking up a new maf tonight, so we'll see.

 

[Chris]

It's junk, sell it to me for 500 bucks.......solved problem!!

mmhmm

I'll throw in a spare MAF tonight and see how it drives tomorrow.

 

[Chris]

It happened again with my spare MAF. I was driving along and the engine just stopped running and wouldn't restart. So I pulled over, nothing seemed wrong, but no start. I checked for ignition, and no spark. So I checked my scangauge2 and it said there was a code for the crank angle sensor position. I happened to have a spare one in my car with me, so I threw it on and all good!

 

[-=Lobstah=-]

You dont by any chance tow a spare parts car behind you at all times, do ya?

 

[IBratmanI]

Haha awesome!!