Car stalls at stop light-rpm drops below 1, what could be cause of this?

Asked by plp27__ Jan 06, 2017 at 01:41 AM about the 1994 Mercury Tracer Sedan FWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Just a month ago, when I come to a stop light, it will stall.   Put fuel injector
cleaner in gas, cleaned throttle body and put new spark plugs-car still doing it-
what could be causing this problem?

2 Answers
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Mark answered 7 years ago

Have someone check your harmonic balancer.... It works with the automatic transmission and controls the idle speed when the car comes to a stop.

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plp27__ answered 7 years ago

I really like both answers very much-thank you fellas so very much. They both seem very plausible.

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