Again, when it rains it pours!!...now bad throttle switch?

[Huw Powell]

> No it was not an intermittent problem. It happened
> once last Thursday and found that by activating the
> WOT ignition switch, the sputtering and inability to
> accelerate stopped.
> 
> Now, a day prior to this, the hall sender in the dizzy
> went south. Prior to that, it was hard to accelerate,
> literally. The gas pedal was hard and it took for ever
> for the car to get it going on 4th and 5th; all this
> following a clutch job that took about 5 months to
> complete due to my job. It took about 545 miles of
> driving and pouring fuel injection cleaner and
> cleaning the dizzy cap and rotor then problem went
> away.

Got it... sounds like a bit of "shaking off the sleep" from not being 
run for so long.

> Prior to the last and recent incident, the car was
> running fine.
> 
> As for codes, I don't think these can be pulled from a
> JT engine code; at least not in the conventional way
> as in the 5KTQ.

No codes on that engines management, correct.

> I drove home from work last night and back to work
> this afternoon with no incident.
> 
> Could it have been bad fuel or a clog in the system
> that was improved by the activation of the WOT switch?

It could be "anything" - and the WOT switch may have only interacted 
with it very peripherally.

If I were you I'd try to generally clean things over time - especially 
electrical connections (starting at the intake manifold ground), to get 
rid of 20 years of futz.  Freshen up fluids and vacuum lines, that sort 
of thing.

And cross your fingers that things only get better.

-- 
Huw Powell

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