Start my car in the Morning it dies right away?

Tiny
JOEYLEE49
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  • 1996 CHEVROLET CAVALIER
  • 4 CYL
  • FWD
  • MANUAL
  • 160,000 MILES
When I start my car in the morning it dies right away. After about 3 tries it stays running but when ideling it revs up. Then shakes real bad to the point that sometimes it dies. IT will do this for about 10 minutes then runs as normal. The rpm will rev up over 3 when in idle. What is this?
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 AT 8:00 AM

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Tiny
KASEKENNY
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This could be a couple things, but we need to start with checking the idle air control as you more than likely need to clean it just to make sure this is not an issue. Here is a guide that will help with this:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/idle-air-control-valve-service

I am attaching the info below on how to replace this if that is the direction that we need to go.

The next thing that would likely because this is a vacuum leak. Here is a guide that will help with this:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-use-an-engine-vacuum-gauge

Let's run through this info and let me know what you find, and we can go from there. Thanks
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