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3.7L rough idle after valve job

 
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Old 01-10-2013, 03:58 AM
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Default 3.7L rough idle after valve job

Been having problems for over a month now had a valve job done on my girls liberty as soon as we got it back it idles rough and sometimes stalls ... Any ideas are has anyone had this problem
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Old 01-10-2013, 04:40 AM
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Has it been looked at by the shop that did the valve job?

A common thing to do for your symptoms is inspect intake manifold, manifold gasket, and vacuum hoses.
There could be a crack in the manifold, bad gasket, or a damaged or disconnected vacuum line.
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yea man took it back he says its fine wich its not... gona check the vaccum lines it goes away when you accelerate if thats any help
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The timing could be off a couple degrees as well. Take it back to the shop and have them look over everything.

A long time ago in place far far away, I once worked as a GM Tech. The Tech in the bay next to me had a come back with the same issue. Everyone had ideas and looked up and down. The "miss fire / rough idle" would clear up pass 1200 RPM. After finally plugging in a Tech2 (GM computer) we could see the timing was off. The car had been in there 2 weeks prior for a head gasket and come to find out the engines timing was slightly off. (THIS MIGHT NOT BE THE CASE, BUT IT IS AN IDEA)

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