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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:10 am 
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Hi and welcome.

Simplest cause of lurching is idle speed too high. Stalling is likely just poor state of tune. Sounds to me like it needs a good service and tune up and someone has wound up the idle to keep it running.

Give it a service and tune up. Tune it to idle smoothly at the idle speed specified for a manual car, if you tune it at the higher setting for automatics you will hide poor running. Wind the idle up to the correct setting for an auto once it is running nicely.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:16 am 
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when coming to a halt in D or R revs drop too low and engine may stall. idling speed in N or P are fine
Following on from Tin's response, how low is too low?


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:02 pm 
Our 1500auto was doing this so i twisted it down to about 650/750 rpm on warm tickover,it now only slighty does it now and then.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:29 am 
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experience with 1850 autos...mostly owned by Rob Grainger...

is that they work best at 750 rpm. The heavier flywheel and torque converter means they will take the slower idle speed smoothly that seems to make manual 1850's a bit rough below 850.

FWIW sprints with lightned flywheels generally need 1000 rpm.

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