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Subject: Re: Sticky throttle
Author: bosoxfan (moderator) : member since March, 2005 : 627 posts
Posted on: 2006-07-17 16:00:29      
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I bought it with 62K and has 88K on it now. The car was a typical "lease" and 15K maintenance. Overall it's mechanically tight, and intake it sound with new air filters since I bought it. I've seen the valve area and little or no gunk so I'm happy there. I believe the TB was dirty with varnished fuel as a result of never being cleaned.

In the photo, you can see the cable I mentioned, and there is just one. I just looked at it on the car and it goes from the TB arm, through the firewall, penetrating right near the driver's cabin filter so it appears to be the cable?

Funny, I started it up and left this am for work and had some serious stumbling and missing which tripped the EML and ASC light, threw some codes (pulled out the Peake Reader from the Glove box). Once I got all that stuff run through on a 20 minute drive, I reset them and had no more issues, actually idles and runs smoother. Thank for the help Jim.

Gary



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