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Sub throttle valve and TPS adjustment HELP


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Im trying to do the above but the diagram doesnt make sense

 

It shows me here to fully close the sub throttle valve and check theres no clearance between the gear and top screw

 

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My gear will not go high enough even with the screw fully down there is a good 10mm or more gap between the gear and the screw so i dont understand this

 

The gear rests against the other stop screw when the valve is fully open but theres no chance of it happening when fully closed

 

Any ideas?

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Is the butterfly itself fully closed, or partially open? You do have the drive motor off the assembly, don't you?

 

Why people *&$~@ about with these I don't know, the forum is littered with tales of woe when they are interfered with! What price bling ehh? (Well a good 3 hours of my time, usually....)

 

Great for me as I can do them in my sleep, and usually get the offending lights to behave so long as no hardware damage has been done ;)

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Is the butterfly itself fully closed, or partially open? You do have the drive motor off the assembly, don't you?

 

Why people *&$~@ about with these I don't know, the forum is littered with tales of woe when they are interfered with! What price bling ehh? (Well a good 3 hours of my time, usually....)

 

Great for me as I can do them in my sleep, and usually get the offending lights to behave so long as no hardware damage has been done ;)

 

I had one of these in today, dash lit up like a tree after the intake had been off for polishing! Polished turd if you ask me. The guy spends more time polishing it and clearing codes off than driving it!

 

Should give your card out to the polishers Chris - a slogan of 'make your polished turd purr again!'

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When i close it as far as it can go it remains partially open still just like the repair manual shows

 

And none of the sensors were removed or tampered with when the work was done, im simply eliminating it as a potential problem as it was fine before removal

 

Each to thier own ehh

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Is the motor drive (stepper motor) off the casting though? Without the drive motor it should be trivial to see just why the butterfly is not closing fully. It's only a shaft, butterfly, a return spring and a teeth on a quadrant... The stepper motors can give serious issues if they suffer water or polishing compound ingress though, and will jam up. They also need to be refitted correctly.

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The drive motor being the bulky plastic part held on by the 4 screws?

I have that off, i just followed the repair manual by steps and im at the stage where there should be no clearance when closed

 

Do i need to do something to make it close fully as the manual doesnt state that?

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Thats odd ill have a look and see, its correct that it should be in the open position and i have to manually close it though right?

At first i thought it would be the other way round

 

I will have a check then as it definately only closes 3/4 of the way so something is stopping it

 

I thought it was fine as the manual shows it still partially open in the diagram

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Nasty things should be thrown in the bin!, first thing I did was to pull the relay to stop the dam thing stranding me as I was pulling out quickly onto a roundabout, when I went single I cut the offending butterfly and casting off and welded up........and polished:p

 

However I don't know how they are integrated into the auto, I just threw the TRAC ECU in the bin.

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Sorry, I am a bit distracted today. It should of course be sprung fully open. That's its normal operating position of course. Then the stepper motor should close it down, in, err steps :)

 

Found the problem with the butterfly, the sub tps on the other side of the butterfly was stopping it from closing all the way, it must have been removed and not refitted correctly

 

Now the butterfly opens and closes as it should

 

Still got the lights on the dash though :rolleyes:

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  • 4 weeks later...

What symptoms other than dash lights were you getting?

 

I've got a weird nose when I turn the ignition off since I took off my throttle body etc. Going to record it and post it video on forum but sounds like something trying to move and cogs slipping (rubbish description I know)

 

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What symptoms other than dash lights were you getting?

 

I've got a weird nose when I turn the ignition off since I took off my throttle body etc. Going to record it and post it video on forum but sounds like something trying to move and cogs slipping (rubbish description I know)

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Just unable to use manu mode due to the lights, car drives as normal

 

Still havent resolved it and have done the following

 

1. Tried the car with no speed converter/delimiter at all

2. re-soldered all wires for the above and triple checked against diagram

3. Tried a spare ODO

4. Replaced Throttle control ECU

5. checked resistance on the sub throttle control valve and sub TPS on the throttle body

6. Replaced both the fuse and relay for traction control

 

Anyone know where the speed sensor is located as i need to check this now, i dont think its that though, problem only started after having the throttle body off

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