My car doesn't usually stall when i put the clutch in at slow speeds.. But i did a little testing and the car always stills consitently when i do the following.. I run the car all the way to 5th gear and about 45-50mph and then i put the clutch in and let the rpms fall. Instead of the car falling to an idle it just stalls and shuts down. It does do it sometimes at low speeds but it consistantly does it when at high speeds.
The car has one other small problem at well, i dunno if it has anything to do with the stalling though. When i first turn on my car my clock on the radio will turn on but it pulses (fades in and out) but when the car warms up it just shuts off all together. If i try and turn the radio on itself then i hear the speakers pop like the power is on but nothing comes out and the radio still doesn't light up. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. If i'm being too vague or haven't provided enough info then just say so and i'll go back and see what else the car does.
Car stalls when clutch is in.
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Spoolinz31SS
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the radio/power problem
Hey The shorting out sounds like perhaps a bad wire or ground in dash. Make sure your alternator wire (ground) is decent for starters and Perhaps check behind the radio with a test light make sure you are getting a good signal from the wires behind..no the clutch problem I really dont have any suggestions about the clutch that is it probably isnt really the clutch making the car stall, sounds like a sensor or something in the nature of a power falure under load...but I am not sure...ask one of our mechanics :p Oh wait you just did heheh
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iliketocrash
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iliketocrash
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You guys are great! Thanks a ton. It was just my stupid EGR valve thing. Disconnected the vaccum to it and it works fine now. I still haven't fixed my electrical prob but that's for another day. I have one more question though, how hard is it to replace the EGR valve yourself? It doesn't look all that difficult but then again i've gotten into lots of trouble while working on some of my other cars because something didn't "look" too difficult. thanks again.
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iliketocrash
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Alright, it only stalls sometimes now. I don't know if i disconnected my EGR properly either because i only disconnected one vac hose from it, the only one i saw. But when i push up on the little disk my idle still gets really rough and the car stalls. Should it do that if i disconnected the vac? My idle is sometimes kinda rough when the car is just sitting... like the idle will dip low for a second and the engine will shake once or twice likes its "missing" or something. I don't know how else to describe it.
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iliketocrash
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ok i've come to the conclusion that its not my egr... now my idle problem has "expanded" a little i guess you could say. After i warm the car up to normal operating temp, i can just park it in neutral, rev the engine above 2k and let the rpms drop... when they drop they drop below 500 and the car acts like its gonna stall and die. It then slowly climbs back up to about 900 and will continue to idle there w/ the occasionall drop to 600 accompanied by a slightly violent shake like a cylinder missed or something. I dunno. I need help! pleease.
Quote »Posted by iliketocrash"]ok i've come to the conclusion that its not my egr... now my idle problem has "expanded" a little i guess you could say. After i warm the car up to normal operating temp, i can just park it in neutral, rev the engine above 2k and let the rpms drop... when they drop they drop below 500 and the car acts like its gonna stall and die. It then slowly climbs back up to about 900 and will continue to idle there w/ the occasionall drop to 600 accompanied by a slightly violent shake like a cylinder missed or something. I dunno. I need help! pleease. [/quote]i have a very similar problem. anyone have ideas?
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pumps2rumps
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Hi, I used to run into a very similar problem. Some of it had to do with several things. One check to see that all vacuum lines are connected and that the air pipe directly connected to your throttle body is very securely fastened! Next try taking out the fuse named "audio" and see if your car is running okay. If so then you probably have a bad ground somewhere behind your deck. I found my antenna was spliced and couldn't wire up to a deck without creating a bad ground. A bad ground would probably cause that type of problem... I know it did for me. Try checking the alternator and that the wires/clip/ground are all good. You may want to check the charge coming out of your alternator too just to be safe. Last try run a diagnostic on through your computer just in case one of your wires got pinched. If this happened, it's not something you can see until you open up all the tape around the grounds. Isolate which are the bad ground might be in and rip open all the housing tape around wires. Look for anything that looks like it got pinched or smashed. Then just re-splice the wires together. Hope this helps.
Good luck.
Good luck.
did you remove the whole throttle body. i tried cleaning it last week with some carb cleaner, but all i did was clean it as much as i could. i didnt notice any real impovements. should it be removed to be completely cleaned?: '91 240sx wrote:Well I had a similar problem and today I went to my local Wal-Mart and bought some 78 cent carb cleaner and cleaned out my throttle body. All I can say is my car runs a hell of a lot better, and now it doesnt stall like it used to
i was thinking it may have something to do with the alternator. becuase when i would press the brake at idle, the rpm's would drop. also, i notice when turning my headlights off at night, the rpm's rise back to normal. but when its at normal idle (700rpm) it still feels quite rough.: pumps2rumps wrote:Hi,I used to run into a very similar problem. Some of it had to do with several things. One check to see that all vacuum lines are connected and that the air pipe directly connected to your throttle body is very securely fastened! Next try taking out the fuse named "audio" and see if your car is running okay. If so then you probably have a bad ground somewhere behind your deck. I found my antenna was spliced and couldn't wire up to a deck without creating a bad ground. A bad ground would probably cause that type of problem... I know it did for me. Try checking the alternator and that the wires/clip/ground are all good. You may want to check the charge coming out of your alternator too just to be safe. Last try run a diagnostic on through your computer just in case one of your wires got pinched. If this happened, it's not something you can see until you open up all the tape around the grounds. Isolate which are the bad ground might be in and rip open all the housing tape around wires. Look for anything that looks like it got pinched or smashed. Then just re-splice the wires together. Hope this helps.
Good luck.
thanks for all the infoim gonna take a look at it soon.
I just took off the stock air intake piping and the piece that connects it to the throttle body. Then I used the rock to hold the plate open so i could spray the cleaner inside and use the toothbrush to scrub as far back as I could. Then I took the rock off the gas and revved it a little so it would let out some of the gunk from inside.