Pb4tugotobed,
sorry, I don't buy that excuse.
It's a discourtesy to skip over entries in a thread and then ask what's already been covered and say you don't have time. Obviously, you are here, so you are making time to read, right?
Anyway, back to the car, spent Friday and yesterday replacing the water pump and the small coolant hose to the throttle body and this time, make double sure that the timing was spot on and the car now idles smoothly down to 627 or so rpms, normal for this car, though I still get no short term fuel trims flirting between -3/+3 range and the car occasionally dies, but now I can put it in gear and it'll behave normally for the most part so the foot and dance is much improved. Now to just drive it and drove it to the store and it's more or less back its old self again, with the occasional stall notwithstanding. The fact that I can mostly now sit at the light with it in gear and it'll idle properly is a HUGE improvement over the past month+ of lumpy idle.
Now the relearn of the idle as I drive it. So far, never got a cat code so dodged a bullet there and the car seems to have a bit more pep to it than it did, not that it lost much but the throttle seems a tad snappier than it's been.
I did clear the codes and the low air flow code for the MAF came right back, but hope that goes away as the car relearns. The idle does fluctuate a touch, but not wavering wildly as it did between 1000-600rpm and often dies as it drops too low.
So now it's a wait and see how the car does.
then last night enjoyed a massive thunderstorm that blew through the area, knocking power out in many areas with multiple lightning strikes, heavy rain, hail etc, fun! Yes, my power did go out around 8:15pm as did many of my neighbors near me did as well.
Power was restored around 11pm to midnight time frame and awoke at 12:45pm to a blinking clock radio.
We don't usually get them this big and massive, but we sure did get a doozy last night though!