Hi, a little help here please. I recently had my engine timing belt and water pump done... I've had some problems with the mechanics whom performed the work to say the least.

1. Anyways to make a long story short, the car's rpm's would drop rapidly when trying to stop at a light or stop sign when the engine was cold.

2. Took it back to the mechanic and he did something to the idle is my assumption... he used a screw driver and needle nose plyers and fiddled around the lever (close to the front windshield, center of the car) that you can throttle the car with inside the engine

3. The problem was alleviated sort of, but the engine lights still come on when it's real cold and you come to a sudden stop (stepping on the clutch drops the rpms way down to 400 then it comes back up), but the engine rpm's struggle back up before stalling.

5. So, the problem is almost fixed, but not quite. What going on? Sorry so long, but I wanted to make sure the problem at hand was described correctly.

Since your vehicle is pre-OBD II, I'm assuming you'd have to take it to the dealer to pull the engine trouble code. But that might be your best bet, to atleast see what is triggering the code as it could very well be the main problem. Good luck with it

I agree with Mike. See what the codes are telling you. It could be a many, many things.

okay, i talked to the mechanic that "fixed" the problem the first time and asked what he did. he said he turned he idle up, but i don't feel that the rpm's should dip down and then recover back to stability when stopped.

the problem is getting a little worse as the days pass, more stalls. he told me to bring it back. is it possible that some kind of nut that is used to adjust the idle loosens up and that's why it's bad again?

someone mentioned a compression problem to me also... compression isn't touched when doing a timing belt and water pump is it?

the problem is fixed if anyone would care to hear how this ended. i dragged the car back to the shop because i was determined to not have to pay someone else for his mistake.

there was some kind of gap on the throttle and it was spaced too far away allowing for the rpm's to drop down to rapidly and the car to stall.

the car idles at about 1000 rpms when stopped and i realize it's high, but i'm going to leave it be because any further work by this guy could be devastating. the car works fine finally.

Glad it worked out :)