its the long weekend here, as well as it has been super nice out now. i've had a high idle issue for a while with evil (like 1400-1500 rpm high). thought it might be in the tune. lasota sent a file but it didnt work. i also had a problem with the injectors shutting off while cruising, he did for the most fix that, said that i had to remember, with basically a racing engine being driven on the street, i am going to find some glitches. dono swapped the trans tune over for me as well. but this high idle thing drove me nuts. it wasnt real drivable. i mentioned it to dono as well. i brought up that the throttle plate looked a little too open to me. dono suggested trying to back it off. i was worried about it messing with the tune because it will also affect the voltage on the tps. his easy solution, adjust the tps after i adjust the plate... duh, brain fart on my part. so i was outside until about 10 or so with flashlight in hand trying to get it just right. got it, and even somehow found .2 volts at WOT. i didnt want to start it because it was late, and i like my neighbours and i want to keep them liking me lol. came home friday, went to start it...wont start. wonderful. i spent the next four hours checking fuses, probing this that that because i had no power going in or coming out of the tps. the problem? the 5v ref wire going into the connector somehow broke inside but the cover didnt. i was happy and pissed off at the same time.
pulled a connector of one of my parts trucks, soldered it in, good to go. or once again, so i thought. set the volts to .98 closed, but when i would go WOT, and let it go, it would rest at 1.2 volts. because i messed with the tps to get adjustment from it, it was binding on my throttle body (accufab which takes a 96-97 explorer tps no problem, but 98 and up, you have to do a little tinkering. surprise.).
so i made up a little spacer to go between the throttle body, and tps.
dont mind my red neck paint bake booth.
idle is now back to pretty much where it should be. took it for a drive tonight down the highway for about a hour. bad new, she does still have a good vibration to it. so when i get a chance because i have been pretty busy lately, i think i am going to pull the motor and have it re balanced. i am also going to ask how hard it would be to zero balance it, that way i wont ever have to worry about the weight ever spinning like it did before on the balancer.