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Dear Noah: for a quick and dirty fix that is pretty good to keep water out, one might go to Home Depot and pick up a roll of their extreme weather HVAC silver tape...better than duct tape..used on my son's apron to hold it together for several months while I got a new apron after he hit an iced-up snowbank. It didn't lift the paint on it's removal about 3 months later...hope this helps someone..
Made the decision to do surgery to adapt the rubber piece. This is the piece I cut off. I lied it actually wasn't as heavy as I thought it was. This part goes into the garbage. See ya!
Well the mail came & for the last 2 days my car is acting up again. Terrible idle problems. Perfect timing for my DME coolant sensor connector & throttle body rebuild kit.
The connector is a NEW style that can be removed with one hand. Oh by gosh & by golly... imagine that! No more
I suspect a harness/connector related problem, as mentioned before, which is temperature sensitive. Could be wrong though.
Here how I like to turn crappy plastic coated crimp terminals into nice small terminal. I got the hang of slicing them with a razor blade after doing about 8.
Here's the majority of the throttle body bits. The only tricky part was removing the butterfly screws & then cleaning the burrs off the butterfly shaft before removal.
Car's back together. Went for a mild but enjoyable drive 'neath & through the light snow. Sometimes a grey & white day is more fun than in the sun. My complaint in the past has been the roads in 3 outta 4 directions from my town are all a "grid pattern"... boring!! Don't be square man. "Hey man, don't be square alright?".
...but tonight I revisited the roads that I first learned how to motorcycle on. It was fun. Feels like a rally course more than a road course.
And to be honest the provincial government just DOUBLED the quota for speeding tickets. ****ers. And hugely increased the taxes on gasoline, smokes, alcohol. Brought back health care expenses & increased taxes on people who make decent coin.
So with this in mind, even the lowly 4 cylinder's appetite for fuel is a consideration. And of course the over-achiever-**** with a lazer gun has me & everyone else in his sights. I just shut my lazer detecter off because its more on than off & is just a buzz kill.
Sorry if I seem like a cop hater. I'm not. I worked with police officers for years & respect them. But the provincial government is a different story.
The throttle body rebuild kit is KILLER. That was the most fun I've had working on my car in a long time!! If you haven't rebuilt your TB. Order the re-seal kit. It's cheap. Did I find anything wrong while I was in there?
Kind of; hard seals next to the upper & lower butterfly shaft. Also one of the small vacuum lines has the tiniest little pin hole in the main bore that I think was clogged. I sprayed everything with carb cleaner & lightly lubed the seals & bearings with engine assembly lube.
The kit came with all new hardware & the two bolts that hold the butterfly onto the shaft were in really rough shape from extraction. I was going to "peen" the ends of the bolts like Porsche does, but instead used red loctite. Hopefully it holds. Otherwise I'll be buying a new engine
Conclusion: there's a few things that can go wrong with the throttle body which will mess up your idle. This kit addresses those things. The instructions were 100% excellent & if the kit contents don't provide you with what you need then that's because your throttle body needs to be replaced not rebuilt.
So time will tell.
04-03-2015, 05:21 PM
