Originally Posted by
martysmartie
Will do no harm with it disconnected at all just need to give it a little throttle for cold starts to compensate. Do the revs drop even when upto running temp or is it constant 1500RPM? Must of moved TPS slightly.
Martin
Hello Martin,
Struck it up this morning for work and it started first time, just idling at about 650-700, lumpy lumpy for a couple of minutes then up to normal, it's about 850-900ish.
Yeah, I don't know wether it wasn't clear, but I replaced the tps so defo moved.
Did think that maybe I had positioned it wrongly, so stripped out and checked again. (The Destructions for fitting it state that you turn it till you feel some spring tension, and then back it off a gnats cock and tighten there. Main warning is not to have any tension on it when it's nipped in position.) Happily be corrected on this of course!
When I put it back on, it was the same high idle. I unplugged idle valve and it settled.
After I'd been for a spin and pulled it up on the drive, I popped the bonnet to see what effect plugging it back in would have now that the engine was at op. temperature, again, plugging it in caused the idle to pick back up to 1500. So, I'm thinking I've damaged the valve??