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I'm having some real problems opening up my TPS to clean it out. I've tried to upload an image but the hosting site won't play ball at the moment.

Basically, the TPS has no split in the casing, meaning that I can't open it up. It has the same part number ( 0 280 120 321 ) as the split type, and I'm stumped with the situation ( and very, very annoyed !!! )

Any help appreciated chaps

ask the boy in your avatar looks like he can . can't you get another tps , cant be too much

Theyre about £60 from Zimmerbimmer

There will be a split in it but mine was glued together, a bit of superglue De-Bonder sorted that, and a new stanley knife blade to tease it apart


Edit

£59.41 including VAT and postage from the genuine parts section on here.

monkey wrote:ask the boy in your avatar looks like he can . can't you get another tps , cant be too much

Not really the kind of advice or comments that I was hoping for Monkey..

Of course I could get another TPS, just like anyone could get any new part that they couldn't be arsed to fix.

wots wrong with it ?

stonesie wrote:Theyre about £60 from Zimmerbimmer

There will be a split in it but mine was glued together, a bit of superglue De-Bonder sorted that, and a new stanley knife blade to tease it apart

I had a look at your write up Stonsie and I was hoping that my fix would be as easy. The forth picture from the bottom of the write up, I can see the split clear as day. Mine has absoloutly no split at all.

I tried a stanley blade to find the split and stupidly slashed the hell out of my finger...

Just keep squirting carb cleaner in and shaking the whole thing to clean the microswitch inside. Keep repeating it until the fluid runs out clean.

Before you reinstall it, smear some silicon grease around the aperture where the throttle spindle sits and that will prevent any future ingress of grime into the TPS.

georgen wrote: I tried a stanley blade to find the split and stupidly slashed the hell out of my finger...

Ouch, but welcome to the club

Working on cars and keeping your skin intact just can't happen


On another vane (sorry, that's a really bad pun) i might still have a 325 TB knocking about somwhere that i *cough* found at a scrapyard which shal remain name-less.. i will see if it has a TPS attatched and then IF it has one i will see if it passes the mutlymeter test (multi-meter)

Just remember when you stab yourself with a scalpel check when you remove it that the blade came out of the finger not of the handle, took me five minutes before I noticed it

stonesie wrote:

georgen wrote: I tried a stanley blade to find the split and stupidly slashed the hell out of my finger...

Ouch, but welcome to the club

Working on cars and keeping your skin intact just can't happen


On another vane (sorry, that's a really bad pun) i might still have a 325 TB knocking about somwhere that i *cough* found at a scrapyard which shal remain name-less.. i will see if it has a TPS attatched and then IF it has one i will see if it passes the mutlymeter test (multi-meter)

Thanks for the offer fella, but I think I might be ok now. I managed to open her up with the help of a vice and a set of grips, and it's spotless now and ready for refitting.

Wish me luck !!

Refitted everything and all is very well.

Took her out for a run and the engine seems much more responsive, and appears to be much more urgent after 3.5k. The idle was still a tiny bit lumpy, but slight adjustments to the AFM screw sorted this.

Many thanks for the help chaps