hmm... thanks for confirming my suspicion that such a rough start isn't right. but what does the idle air valve do? wondering what impact it would have?


Alternatively I'm thinking that there must be some part that either builds up oil pressure when the engine is started or something that maintains a minimum level of oil pressure if the engine is off (sorry I might be way off here). Could there be something wrong with one of these? E.g. the oil pressure is not building up quick enough?