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I’m sorry that you’re dealing with the surging idle. It’s an absolute pain to track and diagnose. It “could” be a gummed up idle air control valve. Did you pull it?

When I pulled the one on my wife’s truck for inspection, it was gummed up something terrible. The new unit sorted it out.

Installed a second throttle body after double-triple checking the resistances across the various connectors. Everything checked out. Installed it and the same symptoms, immediate revving to 4k rpm. This condition did not exist before I began working on the engine.

I checked the MAF and got a resistance reading of 1364 @ 83F, across the E2 and THA terminals. This seems to fall between the given ranges in the FSM on page EG-153, 2-3k @ 68F and 0.9-1.3k @ 104F.

Could it be the MAF? I don't know. Could use some guidance on this.
 
Installed a second throttle body after double-triple checking the resistances across the various connectors. Everything checked out. Installed it and the same symptoms, immediate revving to 4k rpm. This condition did not exist before I began working on the engine.

I checked the MAF and got a resistance reading of 1364 @ 83F, across the E2 and THA terminals. This seems to fall between the given ranges in the FSM on page EG-153, 2-3k @ 68F and 0.9-1.3k @ 104F.

Could it be the MAF? I don't know. Could use some guidance on this.
Shucks. It sure could be. Did the previous shop/ owner mess with the screws on the MAF? If they did, the solders are likely broken. They can be re-soldered. I’ve never done it, but it is doable.

You might be on to something with the MAF.
 
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Did the voltage check on the MAF and the voltage fluctuated but only by a couple of volts, from ca. 0.6 to > 2. Battery had low voltage and so I'm not sure this test is conclusive positive or negative.
Is the battery holding a charge or does it need to be jumped? The battery might be an issue, but it wouldn’t likely be responsible for the surging.

This is a weird on for sure.

I’m going to tag @mingles as he might have some insight.
 
Is it possible that timing is set too high?
 
Brake stuff. What I want to clean up with the removal of the ABS is the haphazard bending of lines and the t-junction just floating in space.

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T-junction moved back under the MC

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The front line off the MC routes down to the T-junction.

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The two front lines will then connect to the T-junction; only one here, the passenger side line. I'll need to make the driver side line and it will drop almost straight down.


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Is the battery holding a charge or does it need to be jumped? The battery might be an issue, but it wouldn’t likely be responsible for the surging.

This is a weird on for sure.

I’m going to tag @mingles as he might have some insight.

Battery is not holding a charge and I have to jump it off each time.
 
You'll probably kick me for suggesting something so simple... but with the tb being off a couple of times recently, is there any chance that the throttle cable is out of adjustment? That sure would be a super simple thing... don't ask me how I came to ask that question... lol.
 
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Always something simple.

@cruiserinsanity noticed a gap between this stop screw. It's somewhat buried under the ICS thus not easy to see. Throttle and kickdown cables were way too tight. Readjustment brought idle back down to normal.

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