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Re: Why does air in the cooling system cause irregular idle
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 2/23/2013 2 Replies

It's because the fast idle valve opens and closes based on coolant temp. If no coolant flow to the valve, it stays open causing very high idle. The ECM will cut injector pulse to drop the idle back down, but when it turns the inj pulse back on the idle revs u... Login to read more.

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