1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager 3.3L
My van intermittently dies on idle (park/neutral, ac on and when I brake). I consulted a Chilton manual and found that the idle air control motor was most likely the problem (I am no mechanic - my dad is but he's 800 miles away). Dad seems to agree based on the conditions alone. I pulled the wire harness out of the motor and found that one of the hard plastic dividers between the prongs/connectors is bent into a prong/connector (wire A, I believe - I don't know what color but it is the leftmost wire when connected into the motor). So now I don't know how to get a new wire harness save going to a junkyard and pulling one (I'm 7 months pregnant and just don't want to do that - but I'd rather do that than paying Chrysler a boatload of $ for one - I'm assuming I can even get this part). I've tried bending back the piece of plastic but to no avail.
Anyway, can you tell me how to decide if this is the only problem or if the actual motor is going out too (or if I've missed the boat and it could be something totally different - I had the EGR valve and solenoid replaced thinking it was that, but of course now I know it wasn't)? Also, can you tell me what this wire actually inputs into the motor? Thank you.
My van intermittently dies on idle (park/neutral, ac on and when I brake). I consulted a Chilton manual and found that the idle air control motor was most likely the problem (I am no mechanic - my dad is but he's 800 miles away). Dad seems to agree based on the conditions alone. I pulled the wire harness out of the motor and found that one of the hard plastic dividers between the prongs/connectors is bent into a prong/connector (wire A, I believe - I don't know what color but it is the leftmost wire when connected into the motor). So now I don't know how to get a new wire harness save going to a junkyard and pulling one (I'm 7 months pregnant and just don't want to do that - but I'd rather do that than paying Chrysler a boatload of $ for one - I'm assuming I can even get this part). I've tried bending back the piece of plastic but to no avail.
Anyway, can you tell me how to decide if this is the only problem or if the actual motor is going out too (or if I've missed the boat and it could be something totally different - I had the EGR valve and solenoid replaced thinking it was that, but of course now I know it wasn't)? Also, can you tell me what this wire actually inputs into the motor? Thank you.
May 4, 2007 at 5:55 AM