Random High Engine Idle August 21, 2010, 08:47:21 PM I took my EGR valve off the car today to clean it out and inspect it. I cleaned it out with carb/brake cleaner, and put it back on. When I started the car a couple of hours later, the engine spikes up to like 3000rpm. I don't have a tachometer in the car, but its high, its more than the car would be running at doing 70-75 mph on the highway. Any thoughts? What with the EGR could cause this? It got dark before I could really inspect it, but I know everything was connected again. I'll look at it tomorrow, but thought I would post here tonight, just to get a couple of ideas in the right direction to go it. Quote Selected
Random High Engine Idle Reply #2 – August 24, 2010, 01:45:28 PM Well I think you guys will laugh at this one. I figured out the problem, there are washers on the EGR valve, and I put the washers on before the valve it self, and then the bolts. It was dark when I did it, I couldn't see too well. Went out there in the morning and realized it, lol. Feel like an idiot. If only the clicking noise was this simple, haha. Quote Selected
Random High Engine Idle Reply #3 – August 24, 2010, 01:57:24 PM Isn't it a b**ch when you create your own vacuum leak! I hate it when that happens.:D Quote Selected