Recent content by sirrjm

Hello again, the car is working now, I can't say I don't know really what was wrong with it, the mechanic shrugged it off as "the previous owner installed the butterfly valve wrong" and left it at that, but the car was fine with me for a while and this only happened after the...

Greetings again, this was after all a timing belt replacement/tensioner replacement (actually OEM one), and trying to tune down the idle RPMs. Now a second attempt was made and the mechanic took out the plugs around the air intake sensors (near the air filter) and put them back in, and that...

I really appreciate the reply, it will very helpful when I relay this information back to the mechanic, we can try to figure out what else could be causing these problems.

Greetings everyone, I recently got my hands on a 1.7 ford puma that I am doing a restoration on. But the car has a very high idle rpm which is also not stable. My mechanic is having a slight problem tuning it, since he either overtunes it or undertunes it. It either gets to the point where the...