Throttle problems, please help
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Throttle problems, please help
For the past week my car is feeling like its bogging down when the throttle is not accelerating anymore but not decelerating, right in the middle it starts to bog and I have to give it more gas for it to stop, but when I'm done accelerating, it happens all over agian. I was thinking dirty injectors, but i'm leaning towards no because the cleaner i put in yesterday isnt helping. I'm thinking TPS sensor, vacume hose, plug wires. I cant figure it out. Please help! Its a 1997 Ex with 97k on it. Help!
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have you thought about the fuel filter? I could see that being the problem. I would suggest picking up a cheap one just to test the theory. Better to pay a little and be wrong than pay a lot and be wrong. 
Hope it helps.
Hope it helps.
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thanks for the tips. i got a fuel filter yesterday, how do i change it with a full tank of gas? and will carb cleaner work for the intake, i got some layin around. and i already lubed up the spring on the tb, it didnt help. but keep the suggestions coming:thumbup:
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the fuel filter is on the firewall like on 4th gens, right? its up high enough where all you do is discon the hoses and then raise the hoses up a little higher, just prop them up and they wont spill gas, (gravity helps us here as long as the pump is off).
i would also try the pcv valve and check your brakes and emergency brake too. you have cleaned the air filter as well?
btw, if a vacuum is busted you will hear hissing, you can take a straw and put it in your ear, or a piece of rubber hose and run it around the engine and hear a high pitched SSSSSSSSssss
how did you place? my dad took 3rd today in his class, (compact Mild)
just for ****s and grins check the tension on the throttle cable too, maybe its slack.
i would also try the pcv valve and check your brakes and emergency brake too. you have cleaned the air filter as well?
btw, if a vacuum is busted you will hear hissing, you can take a straw and put it in your ear, or a piece of rubber hose and run it around the engine and hear a high pitched SSSSSSSSssss
how did you place? my dad took 3rd today in his class, (compact Mild)
just for ****s and grins check the tension on the throttle cable too, maybe its slack.
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Originally posted by civic2k2grl
check to see if your throttle is working properly(opening and closing properly)
check to see if your throttle is working properly(opening and closing properly)
Originally posted by MNY2BRN
and i already lubed up the spring on the tb, it didnt help.
and i already lubed up the spring on the tb, it didnt help.
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Originally posted by civic2k2grl
check the cable!.. if the cable has slack its not gunna open all the way...
check the cable!.. if the cable has slack its not gunna open all the way...
Originally posted by fujiwara takumi
just for ****s and grins check the tension on the throttle cable too, maybe its slack.
just for ****s and grins check the tension on the throttle cable too, maybe its slack.
is my text blending in tonight? Is it hard to read?