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studder at idle

digglesworth

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So over the past few days my idle has gotten worse. It's studdering while sitting at idle. It used to only do it every once in a while but now its pretty constant. I cleaned my MAF and TB a week or 2 ago. It was good right after that but a week or so later its sputtering. I noticed yesterday it seemed to stop after the vehicle was good and warmed up. It's been in the lower 20s here lately. I'm wondering if the TB gasket isn't messed up a little and its expanding a little when the vehicle is fully warmed up and sealing up all the way. It looked good when I pulled the TB to clean it. You can sit at the tailpipe and really hear it. It will be smooth then all the sudden, it'll go du-du du du-du. It'll correct itself for a few seconds then another second or two of sputtering. I initially thought maybe a coil pack but those are really expensive to just blindly start swappin em out. It might be vacuum system realated but I dunno. It's drivin me crazy.
 

alrock

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You only need to buy one coil pack to test all five - swap out one, see if there's a difference, if not then move the new coil pack to a new cylinder. I can't recall - do you have any CELs or did you get a code reader plugged in?
 

digglesworth

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Haven't had a CEL come on... I've seen some no name coil packs out there. Are they worth a shot or stick with oem? I did forget to mention, I put in those supersparkz spring deletes in about 10,000 miles ago. Was halfway tempted to put the springs back in and maybe check the plugs but those were new 10,000 miles ago too...
 

alrock

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I would definitely try and get back to stock as part of your troubleshooting

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