High Idle Solenoids?

/wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif Tom, this is Christmas, so in the true spirit of the season, I will send you a high-idle solenoid. Our CJ7 SNOJEEP has one on it already because the intake is off a '91 Waggie. Yes, this little rascal is a Borg Warner number ECS-12, it is at least fifteen years old, and was a spare for one of our service trucks.....now long gone. I think it is actually for a Ferd. You just set up a little bracket that bolts to the carb base, and this little goodie POPS out and moves the throtttle. I just checked it and it pops out about 1/4". So, how about it? Wanna experiment?/wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

CJDave

/wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif No kidding. We even had one to release the latch on a tool box. On our crane trucks they had a mickey mouse cable arrangement to speed up the engine.....something designed in Diz knee land...and gave a ton of trouble so we changed to electric. As soon as you flipped the control master switch, it energized the solenoid and gave it a little gas.....or in one case...Diesel. So, what KIND of yard are you workin' in? Auto? Industrial? Truck? 4WD?/wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

CJDave

/wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif When they began dinking with the smog stuff in the early seventies, the engines developed serious run-on, especially the Ford family of fine cars. The term idle solenoid and anti-dieseling solenoid are actually used interchangeably, depending on the car and the vendor of the part. This BW here on the desk sez idle solenoid. The carbs had to shut off to zero to stop the engine so the actual idle adjustment sat on the prong of the solenoid./wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

CJDave

/wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif Just after we bought the CJ we went to JW wreckers in Antelope CA where they have about thirteen acres of Jeeps. Awesome! VERY orderly too./wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

CJDave

if you go to the parts house to find one of these little jewels just ask for an anti deisel solenoid for a mid seventies for pu with a 360. and it is true when they first started playin with egr valves they had major run on problems.

dan

/wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.giflet it snow/wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif

/wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif THAT is the vacuum actuator, and it is in combination with the idle solenoid, the froomis, the fleeble, and the six-hundred other things that they hung on that carb. AM I GLAD that our CJ pre-dates the computerized carb days! SHEESH! Between the problems that the 258 gives, and that fuel system, it really keeps this BBS in thread. I look at our Alley Oop 304 with a "normal" carb on it and I an eternally grateful it is a '79 and not later. Of course we needed a Quadra-Trac, so it HAD to be '79 or earlier. You know, Tom, you COULD put the extra idle-advance auxillary solenoid
in another spot....it doesn't HAVE to be on the carb./wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

CJDave

/wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif They take full voltage I do believe. (12)/wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

CJDave

Here is a picture of what I think is my high-idle solenoid. Can anyone verify this? It looks as though the piston is to short to actuate anything.

Thanks

1985 CJ7 4.2L, T-176, Dana 300, 2.5" lift, 32"BFG MT, Durabak On-Board Air

/wwwthreads_images/icons/tongue.gif You wuz expectin' a ten-inch throw??? Dats da idle solenoid all right. After all, how much movement does it take to crack the throttle plate enough to allow an extra 600 RPM of unloaded idle? /wwwthreads_images/icons/crazy.gif

CJDave