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I recently did this again on my ‘89. Some idle issues after sitting for a few years during grad school. I feel like the blades are too far open and when starting, rpm’s are high for a moment. Idle is a tick high at 8-900 rpm’s. Followed FSM procedure which included disconnecting EST for timing advance. That really made this a struggle. I don’t recall doing that previously with this procedure that is all over the forum. Question:
Should the EST be disconnected for the minimum idle set procedure? Was this revised at some point?
This is what I have. I believe it was from this forum. It worked on mine but mine was not idling wrong. I did this after replacing the IAC and manifold gaskets. It does disconnect the EST timing connector.
Don't forget to turn the car off before going for a test drive because the ECM will not automatically re-establish the advance timing. The below file is windows notepad, let me know if you need the text pasted into the thread.