Variety of Poor Running Symptoms

[davidsxj6 (David)]

Jake, does that help?

[xj] 85 Sovereign Starts/dies several times before running _AAV?

In reply to a message from Phil in Ar sent Thu 2 Feb 2012: OK, I discovered the AAV valve plate moves sideways, and mine moves freely and returns to a little less than 1/8 inch gap at the right side with the engine cold and ambient temp 50 degrees. (My parts Sovereign’s AAV had a similar gap.) I tried putting ice on the AAV to see if it would open further, but couldn’t lower the temp enough to make it move much. The AAV heater measured 21 ohms between the pins, the Thermotime switch me…

David