[V8] Sticking throttle Q part Deux for 5 speed manual guys

Ingo Rautenberg ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 13:45:49 EDT 2007


So can I use the throttle body assembly from an automatic car?  The  
only difference I can see is that the 5 speed has a throttle return  
dampener (assuming it's for emissions purposes).

TIA

Ingo

On Mar 16, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Ingo Rautenberg wrote:

> Thanks, guys!  I had checked the Service manual and removed the rest
> of the throttle body.  Yup, the body itself was fine, but the linkage
> at the front bearing was where the resistance was.  Got some lithium
> grease in there and moved things around and that did the trick.
> Needed to adjust the idle switch and broke off one of the adjustment/
> placement screws.  Guess I'll be trying out the easy-out on that one
> tomorrow morning.
>
> Ingo
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