Idle Control Valve?

[JMI]

Well it turned out that (the ICV) was not the problem. I ended up replacing the valve, 135.00 for nothing, although I have rationalized it as PM. It couldn't hurt to try cleaning it, it appears to have solved the issue for others.
I still working on my idle problem

[bagpuss]

Well I cleaned it - not sure I did it right as I had no carb cleaner and shop was closed so used Iso-Propanol and some paper towels then a final spray with WD40. Put it all back together and it run like crap ! But it settled down after a while - must have been metering all that alcohol left in there as air or something. Anyway, too early to tell if its fixed - the idle was fine anyway, just the gremlin blips. Will report back in a few days, whether its fixed or not. Might have to do it again with carb cleaner ? (Iso-Propanol maybe not strong enough ?). Cheers.

[MBXB]

When I cleaned out my ICV, I used up 2 cans of cleaner. Keep spraying till it drips out clear. Shoot it in the crevices around the rotary valve. Wipe clean then install. I don't know if WD40 would be good in this application. It may be too gummy.

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Well I cleaned it - not sure I did it right as I had no carb cleaner and shop was closed so used Iso-Propanol and some paper towels then a final spray with WD40. Put it all back together and it run like crap ! But it settled down after a while - must have been metering all that alcohol left in there as air or something. Anyway, too early to tell if its fixed - the idle was fine anyway, just the gremlin blips. Will report back in a few days, whether its fixed or not. Might have to do it again with carb cleaner ? (Iso-Propanol maybe not strong enough ?). Cheers.

[bagpuss]

Thanks MBXB, I'll get a can tommorow and have another go and leave out the Wd40 then - its only I saw in another post to give it a spray of that, but if ppl have had success without it then I'll skip it. Cheers.

[bagpuss]

Re-done it with carb cleaner (mainly Xylene I think). It was spotless with iso-propanol yesterday (ran clear) today with carb cleaner, a load of crap came out, so definately iso-propanol not strong enough ! Only needed half a large can though so at least the iso-propanol cleaned some of it and saved me buying 2 cans !

Went with a touch of WD40 afterwards. Car running fine but too early to tell on the 'blip-gremlins'. They were still there after the iso-propanol clean so I think it might be something else, but fingers crossed, the xylene might have done something extra, we'll see......