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dennishazard
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Oct 13, 2019, 9:54 AM

Post #1 of 3 (1676 views)
Car stalls Sign In
2000 Chevy Malibu
150.000- 3.6
My son slammed on the breaks to miss a deer and
The car stalled and died, he said it happened a few
Dats before that also, was wondering if some one
Could help us out to try to figure what we should do
To look into this matter
Thanks for you help


Hammer Time
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Oct 13, 2019, 10:00 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1674 views)
Re: Car stalls Sign In
You have a 3.1 not a 3.6.

First eliminate all vacuum or air leaks in the system (very important)

. You may have a bad IAC ( idle air control) but try cleaning the throttle body first. Remove the intake snorkel, have someone hold the throttle wide open for you and scrub the back side of the throttle plate and surrounding bore with an old tooth brush and some carb cleaner. Be sure to spray some into the small holes next to the throttle plate. That should help stabilize the idle. If it still has a problem, replace the IAC.



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Tom Greenleaf
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Oct 13, 2019, 1:27 PM

Post #3 of 3 (1653 views)
Re: Car stalls Sign In
Yes on HT's suggestion. If this ONLY happens with using brakes add hose, check valve and booster to your vacuum checks.
Booster should hold, engine off for quite some time.
Try this: Engine off push brakes till pedal is hard it's lost all reserve boost. Now start it feel boost while pressing on brake should feel it come back. In doing that does it change the idle speed or make it stall? Play with brakes just sitting still idling for the same it really shouldn't mess up idle,


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(This post was edited by Tom Greenleaf on Oct 14, 2019, 4:21 AM)





 
 
 






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