{"id":60759,"date":"2020-08-27T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=60759"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:26:53","slug":"iac-valve-1993-pontiac-grand-prix-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2020\/08\/iac-valve-1993-pontiac-grand-prix-3-1","title":{"rendered":"IAC Valve 1993 Pontiac Grand Prix 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engine will only start when I put my foot on the gas pedal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This would lead me to believe that you have a vacuum leak. This may be an external leak or internal. The most common would be a cracked PCV valve hose or a sticking <strong>IAC Valve<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/iac-idle-air-control.html\">Idle Air Control Valve<\/a> is what controls the vehicles Idle so that it maintains a nice and smooth 800 rpm(in neutral). <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/32ukuat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Replace the IAC <\/a> if you suspect it is the root of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IAC Valve 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went ahead and looked up the IAC Valve that will fit your 3.1 liter engine in the Grand Prix. Not too expensive and only requires the removal of two screws and one electrical plug connector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=freea08-20&#038;language=en_US&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B07F7TL9C5&#038;asins=B07F7TL9C5&#038;linkId=80478c18dccfe890fe715fdaab85fee9&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IAC Location <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2002-pontiac-grand-prix-3.1-iac-valve-location-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"2002-pontiac-grand-prix-3.1-iac-valve-location-diagram\" class=\"wp-image-60914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2002-pontiac-grand-prix-3.1-iac-valve-location-diagram.jpg 588w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2002-pontiac-grand-prix-3.1-iac-valve-location-diagram-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><figcaption><strong>IAC Location Diagram<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engine will only start when I put my foot on the gas pedal? This would lead me to believe that you have a vacuum leak. This may be an external leak or internal. The most common would be a cracked PCV valve hose or a sticking IAC Valve. The Idle Air Control Valve is what&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2020\/08\/iac-valve-1993-pontiac-grand-prix-3-1\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IAC Valve 1993 Pontiac Grand Prix 3.1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14157,"featured_media":29429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[25854],"class_list":["post-60759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-pontiac","tag-iac-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}