I don't own a 164 but I was curious, where are you grabbing the engine to pull it forward and back? At the plenum?
The only thing I can think of that would affect the idle when cold is the auxillary air valve circuit. You must be stressing something, either an air passage way or sensor connection somewhere. T-Mobile, America's First Nationwide 4G Network Sent by Samsung Mobile -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]

