[rwest]

Well, the car hasn’t burned down accidentally or on purpose yet, but it sure is frustrating. I like to wrench, but not so much computer tuning especially since I only have a rudimentary understanding of what I’m doing.

I haven’t done much lately as we had a few warm days and I had some kitchen cabinet drawers that needed to be built so I could hang them out in the yard to spray the finish on. That is done and the temps are going back down, so I went back to the linkage...

Taking the ball joint rods off and swinging the crossbar down to the ITB ball showed large discrepancies in how the cross rod balls lined up with the ITB balls- regular adjustments didn’t help, so I slightly bent one arm, enlarged one set of mounting holes and added washers between one mount and the ITB body and now I’m lining up side to side nicely, but front to back has a slight gap on the drivers side so I will need to slot one of the mounts so I can get both sides identical.

Once that is accomplished, I will once again take by beloved IAC out of the picture and re-load an earlier tune. I have come to the conclusion that in my current setup, the IAC is not compatible with driving away from a stop- if the IAC is set up to hold idle on a cold start, it is about 3 times too lean in the section of the table that comes into play when driving off from a stop. Need a plan “B” or “C” or whatever letter I’m at now!