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Question posted by lroggiero on March 1st, 2014

Windstar Normal Idle Speed

hello, I am having some problem with my windstar 2003 van when is cold in the morning the car will idle to 1500RPM when startup after one minute it will go down to 800RPM, it was not doind that before we only changed the throttle air bypass valv. any ideas? thanks

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