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My rebuild cares about 2200 rpm when timing. Did it by myself, used the screw on the throttle body to hold the rpm and reached across to turn the distributor.

Set the idle switch to never click. Whatever eco wonders it's supposed to perform by clicking (off ?) now, then, later sooner, I prefer normal driving to jerking around.

Turned out the throttle sticking was caused by my choice of where to locate the screw on the hose clamp for the AFM rubber tube to the air cleaner. Right side, screw facing up put it right where the throttle side plate could catch on it and hang up.

All the little details getting ironed out. Vroom vroom.

T.Hanson wrote:
Turned out the throttle sticking was caused by my choice of where to locate the screw on the hose clamp for the AFM rubber tube to the air cleaner. Right side, screw facing up put it right where the throttle side plate could catch on it and hang up.

Oh man,
I wish that I could say that I didn't know that kind of hanging up could happen.
It made me feel silly that I had chosen the hardware in that location for some kind of ease of access or visual "benefit."
Silly is a nice word for what I actually mean.

-Brian

Readers would have to see it. In a way it is so strange it can happen, if it contributed to a wreck it would be on a twist of fate list.

I imagine most of us position hose clamps with ease of access and aesthetics in mind. As it is far from obvious my (our) choice, placing the screw where we did would contact the throttle plate, I claim insanity.

My thought was the pedal was bending, kinking past top dead center. When I mashed it to the floor (engine off) and traced the under hood linkage levers, I heard the click up on the throttle body when it released.

Well would you look at that.