was wondering if any one can tell me how to turn down the idle. my car idles at about 1200 rpm's. and also when i put it in park the tach jumps from 500 rpm's to 2000 rpm's back and forth. also i would like to thank the people for the responses on my other problem. they were very helpful!!!

You've got bad ECTS and/or the EGR and the throttle bodyneed to cleaned. The PCM controls the idle, no way to adjust it.

bad injectors

maybe you should ask if the car is even fuel injected first?

all saturns are fuel injected, obviously you do not know saturns

SL1's 1994 and down are NOT fuel injected. if you look at these cars you'll see that http://www.cardomain.com/ride/273422is a 1995has a metal intake and the1994, http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2135185/2,has a plasticintake the 1995 is fuel injected and the 1994 has a throttle body. you can tellthe difference by what the intake is made of.but I obviously dont know saturns...Edited by: Collins

I wouldn't believed it, if I hadn't seen it. Autozone list a Holley carburetor for the 94'. I didn't think anybody was making a carburetor fuel system after 85'. Now that I know, I'll have to keep my eye out for one. I prefer the old system, less crap to go wrong.

Back to Tommy's problem. Undoubtedly he got fuel injection, because of the symptoms he is describing are common to FI system failures.

I don't care what "autozone" lists for parts on a Saturn. They are all fuel injected. If you think autozone is right (they rarely are) call your local Saturn Dealer and ask them. Then you can also get what you need to clean the throttle body butterfly and shaft to fix your high idle.





Carburator, thats to funny

I have a 1992 SL2 and it's fuel injected.

:Collins: "but I obviously dont know saturns..."


Collins you ob·vi·ous·ly don't know what a throttle body is and or what it does. ALL Saturns are injected.

last time i checked they are called throtle body fuel injection

You guys take this to serious. A guy asked a question, and someone tried to answer. Do you really have to attack him. Besides for that saturns may come stock with fuel injection, however people who rebuild the engine might decide to put on a carb, people do it all the time at school, less computers.

David: A guy asked a question and another guy gave the wrong answer. Not only did he give the wrong information he linked us to a site that shows a Saturn with an aftermarket air intake and makes the claim of some years being plastic and others being metel. Allstock Saturn air intakes are plastic, and all Saturn run withFI. No carbs no needle and seats, no floats or float bowls. I also gave a good answer on what may be the cause of the high idle. Others also gave the same reply, but misinformation or misleading information from others can not and will not help you or anyone on anything. Soyes I did take thequestionserious andI took the answers serious. I also take misinformation serious. Just think the next time you ask a question on a subjectyou may getan incorrest answer and do something that could be harmfull to what ever it is your working on. Edited by: sw2cam

I am not complaining about the correction, however personal attacks have no place, nither does back and forth debating will not solve anything. If you want to keep it up you should create a new topic and leave this one for answering the origional question. That way you do not need to find the needle in the hay stack and have only posts dirictly related to the origional post.

So why did you jump into this thread and post nothing that has to do with the original subject. Why did you only come jump in here to banter the people that posted an answer to the question. LOL. So with that, thats all I have to say to you. Thank you and have a nice life.

I am new here, but my high idle problem was a vacumn leak. I would check that first.

Yeah, its either a vacuum leak or a PVC. I change mine out (plus a fuel filter) and it fixed my RPM problem. Many times those three dollar valves get gummed up and people overlook them pretty easy and try to start with the expensive stuff. Change your PVC first, and check the line for cracks.

I never said they werecarburated. throttle body injection requires only one injector which isnt the same as the fuel injection which uses 4 injectors.doesnt it?

Wow, you guys are still on that? Maybe this tread needs to be moved to a General Discussion page. Poor guy needs help with his car and all anyone wants to do is argue car knowledge.

high idles are normally associated with a vacum issue, now, eratic idles can be from sensors but not normally, inspect the pcv system and ensure there are no cracks or loose connections in the hose


you guys crack me up

Try replacing the throttle position sensor it helped mine with the same problem.

765 days. I dont think anyone of the previous posters will read this.