car drives but won't idle just dies

[khartley]

I've had the car down for basically 3 months replacing the clutch, radiator, cv boots, ps pump, and a few other little things including a step colder ngks gapped at .30. Finally got it back up and running, but the car won't idle, it just dies. I have to force it to stay running, which is kinda hard sometimes. The other thing is that the gas pedal will stick sometimes, so when I'm driving and let off the gas it doesn't decelerate. I'm not venting to the atmosphere, I actually just replaced that hose today actually cause I thought it might have had leaks, it made no difference. I just don't know what else it could be, as far as I know there are no leaks on the ic pipes, I just checked those too.

 

[steve]

A vacuum leak or a bad ISC/ECU can cause problems idling.

Have you run a full pressure test looking for boost leaks?
Does the car always want to die or only after it warms up or until it warms up?
When you keep the idle speed up is it running on all 4 cylinders?

Steve

 

[khartley]

actually, I just figured it out. My other half swapped me cam angle sensors, and when he put the one on my car, I guess it was too retarded, so we advanced it a little and now its running much better.