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curtains
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Mar 16, 2009, 9:34 PM

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Engine won't idle anymore Sign In

Hi all i'm new to the forum,

I have a Toyota Soarer (1JZ-GTE engine) that i'm fixing up, and the engine was pretty good untill it stopped idling, now I have 2 keep the foot on the gass to keep the engine running, once i release my foot from the gas it dies. The cars been sitting in my car port for a while if thats any help (like 6 months, cause i haven't had the money to buy parts for it but now i do) but i start it up once every week to keep the engine in good nic

It stopped idling when i once reved up to near redline which is fine cause i know these engines are like bulletproof, but now it won't idle..

any ideas?


Tom Greenleaf
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Mar 17, 2009, 2:33 AM

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<You said>
It stopped idling when i once reved up to near redline which is fine cause i know these engines are like bulletproof, but now it won't idle.. <end quote>

Not that bullet proof sport!

Let's hope no disastrous engine damage occurred. With the history of weekly start and run for a while - guessing without driving it - it may have built up some deposits in the combustion area that threw a bit of debris to short a spark plug which would disturb any idle.

That or a valve (or more) has crashed into piston as it couldn't get out of the way in time for this NO LOAD, RED-line drama!

Suggest you begin by inspecting each spark plug and take a compression test then report results,

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