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Old Jun 18, 2004 | 02:41 PM
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rough idle 4.6 liter

my 2002 f-150 with 4.6 liter has been idling rough when warmed up and I come to a stop. I was going to clean my throttle plate and replace my IAC, but I tried a different dealer first to see if they could fix it since its still under warrenty. They ran a WDS power balance test and said that they do feel the rough idle but they dont see anything wrong and that its a charictoristic of this truck (same as the other dealership). They told me they have seen this before and Ford tried to balance the exhaust or something but only had a 5% success rate fixing the problem, and it had something to do with motor mounts. So I'm clueless on what to do, does anyone think that I will be wasting my time and money by replacing the IAC and cleaning the throttle plate??

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Old Jun 19, 2004 | 03:36 PM
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the iac and throttle plate should be fine.

How does the truck run?

If you want to clean anything then clean the MAF and start from there.
 
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Old Jun 20, 2004 | 09:11 AM
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the truck runs good just idles rough.
 
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