I would think that a misfire is either electrical (spark?) or a fuel issue. The idle control valve just varies the amount of air getting to the engine at idle to keep it at an optimal speed....

When my 300E was misfiring it was from fouled (non resistor) spark plugs. I put in a nice set of NGK resistor plugs and it has run awesome ever since.

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