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TCBO1
12-31-2007, 12:42 PM
Last night, after having the marauder parked for 2 hours, we experienced a stall. We were draining water from the driver's door (whole other prob... found it was normal... THANKS SEARCH BUTTON!) by opening the door and giving the car enough gas to lurch forward. It ruff idled each time he juiced then let off the gas. Then on the 3rd shot the car actually stalled out when the pedal was released... I have been looking thru the posts and the closest I got was someone mentioned their stall prob went away after they got an oil change(dunno why) he said he would happen when showing off for the kiddies... give it juice real quick then would stall out)
Could that be from a dirty fuel filter? Every once it awhile it will start then die when you first start it up as well. Usually when cold so that would lead be to believe fuel filter, rather than IAC since the idle doesn't surge .... any other things to look at besides that? I have a new filter on it to be installed soon.

Natalie

JACook
12-31-2007, 01:41 PM
Do some searching on cleaning the throttle body, and also IAC (Idle Air Control) motor.
A sluggish IAC is the most likely explanation.

Rockettman
01-11-2008, 09:32 AM
Check the tread:
"Starts, but won't idle (http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40598)"

about my T-bird.