I've only had my truck for a little over two years, but its been doing this ever since. When its relatively cold outside(below 50?) my truck would die 1 or 2 times before it would ever stay at idle and warm up. Last summer i put the turbo, tranny, and performance things on, and now it dies about six times before it will idle by itself. I usually just keep it at 2k rpm's for about a minute, then let it run on its own, and it will warm up, or just die once. Even after its warm it still sounds like a tiny bit choppy. Does anyone else have this problem in the cold, if so, what could it be? Is she crapping out on me?
Thanks.

 

bad IAC motor? dunno. you do your own tuning?

 

it kinda feels like my truck does that a little.. not 2 ur extent but when I start it it barely takes a turn and it kicks over but the RPMs will jump and then die 2 like 200 and then it realizes "o **** me its cold!" and then jumps up to like 7-800. Some times it acts like its gonna die and I give it some gas and it comes back but I donno, urs is quite more of a predicamin than mine

 

00Silvy: I think yours might be normal, but mines about 100 times worse, lol
jake: I had a local tuner tune the turbo and everything, but the problem still existed when i was bone stock. Ill try to check the IAC motor tomorrow.

 

I really don't know how to check the IAC to be honest, but someone correct me if I'm wrong that if the IAC isn't working properly it can make your engine do this. I worked with a guy who had the same motor and the same problem. We cleaned his tb and even did seafoam. I figured what the hell I cleaned the **** out of the IAC and after that his motor ran a lot better at idle. I can't gurantee you anything because everyone's problems on here are different, but I'd put my money on either the tb or possibly (far fetched) the tune could be messed up around idle. Not that your tuner did it, but I've seen some stock vehicles idle funky.

 

Ya, i was talking to my dad about it (im only 17) and he had somewhat of an idea, so tomorrow we are going to check it out and test and clean it. Thanks for the help, i'll let you know tomorrow what happends.
Thanks man.

 

awesome. Where you located? j/w. I'm 19 myself.
If yall can't figure anything out I'd try the seafoam. I've done it on several older vehicles and it works wonders I think.

 

Got dam! ur in my shoes and ur trucks already turbo!? **** man I envy u haha. Im lookin for a cam right now.. hopin that'll tide me over 4 about 2 yrs haha not much else I can do with the lack of 5g for a turbo or charger

 

Im in Pampa,Tx. NorthEast of Amarillo. I've heard many good things about seafoam, but never actually used it, guess there's a first time for everything? lol.
00:Ya, I got lucky, and thanks to a few guys on the site, found some parts for cheap, so i bought all the parts and me and my dad put it on my truck. Trust me, a cam won't tide you over, its addicting. I'm already saving for a 6.0

 

you can do a cam and torque converter for not much and you'll knock some serious time off your e/t's
I'm going to install my cam hopefully next weekend. I'll get some dyno numbers right after install too. I'm hopin to break 330/330. w/ a 3000rpm stall I should be well into the 13's