CB7 starts rough. Sometimes bogs out and dies

[dailyupdate]

Try cleaning out the egr valve. If you had some more time maybe even clean out the egr ports. That helps hestiation.

But most likely you just needed to tighten the fiv aka fast idle valve.

Its under the throttle body on the h. I think the f is on the manifold near the fpr.

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[JaberCB7]

you could do a block leakdown test and see if that yield anything. Even though it has 88k miles, its still at least 17 yrs old so something could've gone bad

hmm, now that you mentioned it my coolant resevoir has been empty twice now i think. but i use my hearter alot now. that wouldnt use my coolant too much right? also coolant was flushed idk if that would cause me to have empty resevoir

[Pandemic]

Had one stall today which was the fourth time starting it since cleaning the valve screen. I'm wondering if more junk isn't on it. We'll see how it does. Cleaning just the screen wasn't too tough so I could just keep doing that for a while I suppose.

Unless I get a weekend and some replacement hose, I'm not going to risk taking the hoses off. I really don't want to damage them in this colder weather.

[wed3k]

set the base idle?

[Pandemic]

Idle was set a bit higher. No real difference. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's not. I probably really need to clean out these valves but don't have a very good place to do it.

[Pandemic]

I'm betting that more shit is plugging that screen since I couldn't clean it out properly. Might give it another shot tomorrow or wednesday.

Question: If I use oil on rubber hose, will it eat the rubber?

[nine_deuce]

I don't think it'll eat the rubber. Are you trying to get the hoses off, or?

[Losiracer2]

yeah your car shouldn't lose any coolant at all....so either there's a leak somewhere or you're burning it

[Pandemic]

Trying to get the hoses off, yeah. And then back on

Coolant will be lost through a variety of ways. Overflow and evaporation being most common.