MBrannon, I want to thank you for helping me out, I really appreciate it! And maybe Dave is right, I dont understand...though I think I get it now.

I wanted to add something that I just found out about before I started changing all my intake gaskets. As you all know I replaced my throttle body once before. Well I just realized that when I bought it for the guy hey had un plugged the coolant hose that go to the throttle body and this valve we're talking about here. The inputs for the coolant lines were just capped off on the TB. So when I took it the mechanic and was told it was the MASS, the throttle body didnt have the coolant lines hooked up. And on my way back from the mechanic I made a stop and when I got back in the truck it was idling perfect at 750rpms for the first time since I had owned it. I just wanted to add that fact to the conversation in case it helps. I did get the coolant lines hooked back up hoping it was going to help but it made no difference what so ever.

So if I do like dave said and make a gasket to block off the hole I should be good you think?


One more thing, my battery has been dieing on me and I just got a new one. I did the 5 minutes on, off, 5 minutes on and was able to get the idle down to 1300 rpms doing that. I then went and turned the distributor all the way one way and the lowest I could get the idle was 1000rpms. I know thats not the way to do it and that I need to get a timing light and do the timing. I was just experimenting.


Thanks again to everyone...I'll give everything you guys suggest a try. I would still like to know how I might get this copper plug out. Or should I just make the gasket, dave?