Hi,
I just joined this morning so I hope I get this thread in the right spot. I put it under "Fuel" because my issue had to do with an accelerator cable my son and I just installed.
First, the back story: We got this car last December as my son's first car, he's a Fox body fan so we searched until we found what seemed like a good car that he could learn to work on while he drove it. We've been dumping money into it for several months now and have made a lot of improvements. One of these improvements, an accelerator cable replacement, led to my current issue.
The car was someone's hot rod / weekend track car when we got it, it runs solid and strong with a pretty choppy idle (someone installed a fairly aggressive cam). My son started noticing that the accelerator was a bit sticky and since it's a 25 year old car, we decided maybe the cable needed replaced. Working under the dash to get it installed was rough, I'm not all that small and there's no room to work to hook the cable to the accelerator pedal. Anyway, we got the cable in and in my haste to try it out, I started the car before I hooked up the other end of the cable to the throttle body. The car started right up, I heard a strange sound that I hadn't heard before (kind of like a solenoid making an adjustment) and I shut it off. I finished hooking up the cable to the throttle body and got the cruise control part of it hooked back up, went to start it again, and it would only crank, not start.
We had some time yesterday and fooled with it some. We checked for spark and had that so I shot a little starting fluid in the breather hole on the throttle body. It started right up but didn't idle, it settled at about 3,000 rpm. I reached down and pushed the accelerator lever on the throttle body closed. The rpm's came down but I couldn't get it down to idle rpm's, I didn't want to force it too hard.
My question is, has anyone else ever experienced this? I'm thinking now that maybe I need to adjust the throttle position sensor, could that have gotten out of whack? The accelerator feels good in the car, it looks like it operates the accelerator lever on the throttle body good, but I thought maybe I'd ask here what else I might need to look at.
Thanks.
K.C.
I just joined this morning so I hope I get this thread in the right spot. I put it under "Fuel" because my issue had to do with an accelerator cable my son and I just installed.
First, the back story: We got this car last December as my son's first car, he's a Fox body fan so we searched until we found what seemed like a good car that he could learn to work on while he drove it. We've been dumping money into it for several months now and have made a lot of improvements. One of these improvements, an accelerator cable replacement, led to my current issue.
The car was someone's hot rod / weekend track car when we got it, it runs solid and strong with a pretty choppy idle (someone installed a fairly aggressive cam). My son started noticing that the accelerator was a bit sticky and since it's a 25 year old car, we decided maybe the cable needed replaced. Working under the dash to get it installed was rough, I'm not all that small and there's no room to work to hook the cable to the accelerator pedal. Anyway, we got the cable in and in my haste to try it out, I started the car before I hooked up the other end of the cable to the throttle body. The car started right up, I heard a strange sound that I hadn't heard before (kind of like a solenoid making an adjustment) and I shut it off. I finished hooking up the cable to the throttle body and got the cruise control part of it hooked back up, went to start it again, and it would only crank, not start.
We had some time yesterday and fooled with it some. We checked for spark and had that so I shot a little starting fluid in the breather hole on the throttle body. It started right up but didn't idle, it settled at about 3,000 rpm. I reached down and pushed the accelerator lever on the throttle body closed. The rpm's came down but I couldn't get it down to idle rpm's, I didn't want to force it too hard.
My question is, has anyone else ever experienced this? I'm thinking now that maybe I need to adjust the throttle position sensor, could that have gotten out of whack? The accelerator feels good in the car, it looks like it operates the accelerator lever on the throttle body good, but I thought maybe I'd ask here what else I might need to look at.
Thanks.
K.C.
