Is it the TPS?

[Phil Rose]

At 6:04 PM -0400 8/13/09, rbade12 at aol.com wrote:
>  Excellent, I'm glad you found it! Now, who had intake tract in the 
>pool?   Bob
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I think my post might've been the first to mention possible intake 
tract leaks--I described a leak from a torn TB boot which produced a 
similar symptom in my car. I grant permission for all my winnings to 
be sent to Dan Simoes as a contribution. ;-)

Phil




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>From: kneale at knitknacks.com <kneale at knitknacks.com>
>To: 200q20v at audifans.com
>Sent: Thu, Aug 13, 2009 1:13 pm
>Subject: Re:  Is it the TPS?
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>Air leak testing (see  http://www.pbase.com/kneale_brownson/image/115984506
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>having been left untightened by someone before I bought the car, but
>especially a large leak at the point the throttle body attaches to the
>intake manifolod.
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>I had the throttle body off a while back to replace the valve cover gaskets
>and I did not replace the paper gasket, which was kind of split in half,
>but rather spread some hylemar on the halves.  Worked for a while.
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>I've been planning on replacing the throttle body because the famous
>plastic cable keeper has disintigrated, so I guess I'll get that and a new
>gasket.
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>Thanks all for contributing ideas on why my avant doesn't like to go
>all-out anymore.
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Phil Rose
Rochester, NY
mailto:pjrose at frontiernet.net