cold start? Options

[replica250]

my st202 gt 1994 3sge has had a crap idle but perfict cold start since i bought it last year and i finaly got round to getting a second hand icv from a brakers but found that i couldnt get my old icv off the throtle body, so i swaped the magnetic motors over and refitted it to the car, fired up the car and it runs lovely idles sweet as a nut but went to start to start it two days ago and the motor just cought and refused to start yesterday and strugled to start today! even i reset the afr! it seems ive just swaped one problem for the other,
so anyone got any advice for me?
cheers j

[azian_advanced]

i had problems removing the icv from the throttle body too and stripped the screws holding it on. one way to get them off is to use a hammer and flathead screwdriver and put the flathead against one side of the phillips screw and hammer the butt end of the screwdriver. this will give enough torque to loosen the screws and it worked for me. but you'll need to hold the TB on a vice to do this. if you can't get it off, then i'd suggest going back to the breakers to get the entire throttle body.

usually it's not the magnetic motor that's the problem, it's the valve itself and can get dirty from the air that passes through it and clogs up preventing it from rotating. you need to get to it and clean it out.