Thread: V8 4.4 hunting idle under strange conditions

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Give it a week before calling success. The idle control motor is responsible for idle air bypass of the throttle body so while the gun build up on the throttle might have been causing some restriction to the expected minimum pass through, the idle motor should have been able to compensate. Maybe this indicates you need to clean the idle air motor?

Report back in a week if she’s still purring. I hope so

Good info ! Will do.