Ok so I was working on my car today fixing some grounds (had the 3800 power loss), so I finish up and I go to test it out. I run it up past 4000 in first everything seems to be going good, up past 4000 in second, let off the gas to shift and the tach goes from 4000 to just over 6000. I shut it down, and now when I start it it rev's with out me pressing the gas. The gas pedal is against the floor, like it doesn't return to the normal spot when I take my foot off of it.

So my question is is the problem my gas pedal or is my throttle cable broke?

Thanks everyone, Mike

 

The pedal is directly attached to the throttle cable. If you look up behind the pedal you see three main components:

1- the hinge that the pedal rotates off of
2- a spring attached to the pedal to pull it back after pushing it down
3- the throttle cable

the spring has either come off or your throttle cable is way too tight, or your throttle body is stuck open.

 

Ok well out of those three, I would have to say the throttle body is stuck open. he spring is still there and I've had the car for a week now and never had a problem with this till today. So how do I go about one makeing sure it's the throttle body and two fixing it?

Thanks so much for your help.

 

Is this N/A or turbo? Regardless, you just take the intake off to where the throttle body is exposed and see if the throttle plates are stuck or not. If they are, then remove the throttle body and with some lubricants, get it to where the butterflies open and close smoothly.

 

It's a N/A thanks a lot for the help.

 

Thanks so much for the help, I got it fixed and now it works great.

 

awesome, no worries.

 

k so obviously i searched (this threads old lol) but im having the same issue. the car is a 10AE

Do i have to replace the UIM gasket when doing this? or cant i just take the TMIC flange off the other side of the throttle body to check the butterflies?
and could this explain engine flooding?

my car starts up fine when cold, but after running it for a while, theoretically with the throttle stuck open a bit could that cause fuel to flood the engine a bit after shutting it off?

 

its a pain in the *** but iirc you can remove the tmic support without taking off the uim. just need to have some good combos of wrenches

 

oh no i mean i have the tmic removed already, i was wondering if i can see the butterflies by removing the flange near the drivers side that connects to the tmic via coupler. instead of removing the entire uim. thanks though!