XRT8U Member 503 Member For: 22y 1m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 24/02/07 12:30 PM Posted 24/02/07 12:30 PM Hi guy's, out of nowhere tried to start the car today and the throttle fault indicator comes on and the engine goes all funny, anyone know's what im looking at?? thanks No matter how many times I restart the car it does the same thing, the light comes on and the engine goes nuts!
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 22y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 24/02/07 10:38 PM Posted 24/02/07 10:38 PM Fair chance your potentiometer (or whatever they call it) is f*cked. If so you can't really do anything but replace it
XRT8U Member 503 Member For: 22y 1m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 24/02/07 10:43 PM Author Posted 24/02/07 10:43 PM (edited) u know that that sh*t is worth? and thanks for the reply! Edited 24/02/07 10:44 PM by XRT8U
G6ET8U Playing with Sports Bikes... Legacy Donating Member 1,927 Member For: 20y 10m 25d Gender: Male Location: Whistling, GTX. Posted 24/02/07 10:48 PM Posted 24/02/07 10:48 PM (edited) Hey Pete...Is it idling really roughly? Like it's only running on a couple of cylinders?I had a similar problem a while ago, and it was a breather hose from the inlet manifold if my memory serves me correctly...Now I know you have the Stage 2 and stuff with the Nizpro plenum but it may still be the same thing, in my case the hose had blown off. It literally made the car completely undriveable.Hope that helps...Jack Edited 24/02/07 10:50 PM by XR6T8_U
XRT8U Member 503 Member For: 22y 1m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 24/02/07 10:53 PM Author Posted 24/02/07 10:53 PM Thanks jack I'll go have a look, good hearing from ya its been a while! I cant drive it at the moment cause its right when I start it, it goes into like a limp mode!
deano59 Member 40 Member For: 21y 7m 21d Gender: Male Location: Rowville, Victoria Posted 24/02/07 11:38 PM Posted 24/02/07 11:38 PM Mine did the same thing, had to get it flat bedded to ford and at first they thought it was the throttle position sensor but turned out that the throttle body itself was fcuked.Deano
RAP1D Member Legacy Donating Member 3,739 Member For: 20y 4m 3d Gender: Male Location: Sydney NSW Posted 25/02/07 12:29 AM Posted 25/02/07 12:29 AM How can a throttle body be fu*ked? Did it jam up or something?Id try a wreckers for a sensor... cant be too expensive now, lots of dead BA's around now
XRT8U Member 503 Member For: 22y 1m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 25/02/07 02:18 AM Author Posted 25/02/07 02:18 AM what can a throttle body be worth these days?
exahsix Member 296 Member For: 20y 11m 23d Location: Monterey, NSW Posted 25/02/07 03:15 AM Posted 25/02/07 03:15 AM it's definately your throttle position sensor. I had EXACTLY the same problem a few months ago, and the ECU was throwing up error codes for throttle. $45 at Ford should get you out of trouble. Be CAREFUL undoing the two screws that hold the TPS in, they are loctited in and break easily. I had to tap the threads again to fit new (larger) screws.
XRT8U Member 503 Member For: 22y 1m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 25/02/07 07:20 AM Author Posted 25/02/07 07:20 AM Thanks mate very helpful information
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