Car keeps dying...Please help!!

[shayrgob240]

Ok, so I have been having cold start issues lately so I took it upon myself clean the IACV. I took it out (wasn't that dirty), cleaned it, sprayed some carb cleaner in it, and also sprayed carb cleaner in the MAF. Right afterwards, everything was ok!!!! I mean, the cold start problem was tehre, but it didn't die on me at all. So today I was driving and I got stuck in crazy traffic and my car just kept on dying! It sucked so bad. So what could be the prob? It just doesn't make sense b/c it was fine yesterday after I put everything back together.

[FaLKoN240]

Carb cleaner /= MAF cleaner.

Go get some real MAF cleaner, and try that.

[shayrgob240]

Carb cleaner /= MAF cleaner.

Go get some real MAF cleaner, and try that.

I don't think I saw any MAF cleaner at the parts store.

And one more thing, I just played w/ it a little more and now there is a stumble at around 2k.

['90RPS13]

I got the same stumble. Feels like a honda with V-Tec once it gets past 2k right? *a

[shayrgob240]

I got the same stumble. Feels like a honda with V-Tec once it gets past 2k right? *a

eh, not so much.

I do have an update though. I shook the IACV wiring a little and the idle went back to normal. took it out for a drive and when I got to a stop sign it died again. Brought it back home and I tried doing the same thing w/ the iacv connector/wiring but to no avail. So apparently I fucked that up when I took it off. So do u guys think it's safe to say that I need a new connector?

[Flybert]

Probably old kinked wires losing connection. Check your coolant temp sensor wiring and shake it up to see if it helps your cold start as well.

[shayrgob240]

Probably old kinked wires losing connection. Check your coolant temp sensor wiring and shake it up to see if it helps your cold start as well.

hmm, I'll take a look at that tomorrow.

And apparently, all I had to do was adjust the IACV screw one more time. I adjusted it yesterday and thought that's all I had to do but I guess more fine tuning was in order. So I'm not back at square one w/ the cold starts. But at least I can still drive the car now.

thanks

[slideways2004]

you shouldn't have sprayed carb cleaner in the maf. the maf is electrical and is very sensitive. there is a good chance that you could've messed it up.

[kandyflip445]

^^^I've used carb cleaner on the maf before and it's fine. I've read elsewhere that the differnce in cleaners is a coating on TB's. The carb cleaner will take off the coating on the newer electronic TB's. Dunno how true it is though so take it with a grain of salt.