Oh, I had a nice long description, and it got flushed to internet heaven (some session time-out crap).
Anyway, I'm gonna be more terse this time. I've got a few items here:
First: if anyone has experienced the situation where you're throttle feels a little sticky, especially off-idle, under gentle pressure, then it might be due to crud building up around the throttle butterfly valve. The crud is from PCV, EGR type stuff being dumped into your intake manifold. The solution is simple: take off the air filter plastic hose to the intake manifold, spray some throttle body cleaner around the throttle valve, and wipe it really well. Reattach, and hopefully you'll now experience much better fine throttle control off-idle.
Second: My power switch doesnt work. Symptom is the green PWR light only comes on when I hold the button down (it doesn't stay depressed). My solution was to add a thin paper shim between the plastic spring-loaded 'flap' and the switch housing (effectively holding the flap tighter to the switch mechanism). Any other ideas, besides buying a new switch?
Finally: I have recently been experiencing a little electrical glitch, that has me concerned. It happens when it is very cold out, and hasn't been driven in many hours. When I turn the key to start the engine, it will turn over a couple times like normal, but suddenly for a split second the lights will flicker, the engine cranking will falter, and then just as quickly it will return, start, and everything will be fine. Anyone seen anything like this? I'd prefer to do some preventative maintainance, but I have no idea what to try to debug when the problem is so intermittent.
Thanks, and Happy Holidays everyone,
Kenton
Anyway, I'm gonna be more terse this time. I've got a few items here:
First: if anyone has experienced the situation where you're throttle feels a little sticky, especially off-idle, under gentle pressure, then it might be due to crud building up around the throttle butterfly valve. The crud is from PCV, EGR type stuff being dumped into your intake manifold. The solution is simple: take off the air filter plastic hose to the intake manifold, spray some throttle body cleaner around the throttle valve, and wipe it really well. Reattach, and hopefully you'll now experience much better fine throttle control off-idle.
Second: My power switch doesnt work. Symptom is the green PWR light only comes on when I hold the button down (it doesn't stay depressed). My solution was to add a thin paper shim between the plastic spring-loaded 'flap' and the switch housing (effectively holding the flap tighter to the switch mechanism). Any other ideas, besides buying a new switch?
Finally: I have recently been experiencing a little electrical glitch, that has me concerned. It happens when it is very cold out, and hasn't been driven in many hours. When I turn the key to start the engine, it will turn over a couple times like normal, but suddenly for a split second the lights will flicker, the engine cranking will falter, and then just as quickly it will return, start, and everything will be fine. Anyone seen anything like this? I'd prefer to do some preventative maintainance, but I have no idea what to try to debug when the problem is so intermittent.
Thanks, and Happy Holidays everyone,
Kenton