Well, back on my bullshit I suppose. 89 LX, A1 of course.
Car ran ""well enough"" yesterday or at least as well as holding idle and not dying constantly. My alternator was failing and voltage was all over so I replaced it, put the car back together, took it on a test drive and it was fine, go to the gas station and fill up, then all of a sudden boom, car stalled coming to a stop.
Now it won't hold idle at all hot, fast/cold idle still works fine, but as soon as it's warm the car doesn't even try to hold an idle, revs drop faster than I've ever seen.
Car runs ""fine"" as long as I keep my foot on the gas. I didnt disconnect any vacuum lines during the alt swap process so it seems unlikely that that would be the issue (though who fuckin knows), and I've tried both full open and full close idle screw to see if it made any difference, nothing.
Any ideas where to start? This cars driving me crazy I swear. I'll try to check for vacuum leaks when I'm home from work (gonna be hard with 1 person), but this only occuring after the alternator swap seems to me to suggest that's the cause in some way.
I did notice that the new (AutoZone) alternator has slightly more resistance when spinning the pulley, but I thought opening the idle screw would be able to account for that.
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