ECM Chatroom

[CrazyCreashunz]

Yeah I had the same problem with my key fob screw but with some good hand pressure and the right screwdriver, you're set  

OK got that screw out after all, alittle pressure worked! Well looks like it takes a Panasonic CR 1616 3V battery...

[rocketstarter]

quick question: is there any benefit to tightening the throttle cable? How would I go about doing this if it's even worth it?

In the drivebility and precision departments yes, there's an enormous benefit if you ask me. Unless your gas pedal bopping around doesn't bother you.

1. Turn your car on and let it warm up and NOTE WHERE YOUR NEEDLE SITS, locate the throttle body and look at the top cable to the right of it. [The bottom one is for Cruise Control in case you're wandering]

2. There should be a grade8 colored plate with a tab that the cable goes through. Loosen the nut that sits on top [facing you]

3. Now the nut UNDERNEATH that plate will determine the THROTTLE POSITION. If I remember correctly turn it anti-clockwise to tighten. If you hear your RPMs rise then loosen it a tad.

4. Ultimately you don't want any play in your gas pedal. I preferred mine to react if I barely touched it with my big toe, but that's all persnal preference. YOU tghten it to how much travel YOU want it to have.

I'd take a picture to show you were it's at for a visual but my car turned into a crumpled beer can at midnight. Maybe one of the other members can take a picture of an existing engine bay and pin point the assembly to you.

Good luck!

[rocketstarter]

OOPS wayyyyyy late

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

lol it's ok, I appreciate the help. I think I'm going to try it again tomorrow to see if I can get it as tight as possible without raising the idle at all. I made the cruise control one kinda tight too, but that one isn't that important because I don't use cruise control. They were very loose to begin with. I had to tighten it by like a little under a 1/4 inch lol.

Before I had this nasty dead spot in the pedal. Now that's gone. I always get annoyed when I have to push down on the pedal really hard whenever I pass someone on the highway, or if I'm on the on-ramp.

[Mike]

Morning everyone.

[ibcnunv]

Morning Mike….

Someone at my job is getting fired today!!! I had to leave my apartment at 2am and drive to my work site just to let a person how was locked in the building yesterday evening out.  My maintenance supervisor failed to inspect the building before closing down for the day. That’s a NO NO…

I hate having to let people go but this guy should have retired a long time ago.

[Blackhawk]

Morning, big Mike and the rest of ECM.

[ibcnunv]

Morning JT!!!

I see you're giving away your junk!!! LOL

[Fenix]

that sucks piereo, im good at yelling at people. ill do it

[ibcnunv]

yeah it is because I can’t hear very well so I tend to yell a lot!!!

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

woo, dentist appointment today!

[Abailey4]

^I had mine a few weeks ago. $60 down the drain but I guess that's good. LOL!!! I havent been to the dentist in about 10 years and I went in and she said I still have no cavities ever since the 1 I had when I was 6. She also couldnt tell that I had smoked for 10 years! So I paid $60 for her to tell me what I already knew which was everything was fine!

[Fenix]

dental insurance FTW

[Abailey4]

^That's one of the only reasons I went. I finally came to the conclusion that if I'm paying for it might as well use it. I get 2 free cleanings a year that I havent been using.

[Paulius005]

i gotta get a root canal done in two weeks... apparently my last dentist missed a deepening hole in one of my teeth over a period of 4 years(looked at x rays and just examined my teeth but the bitch managed to miss it) and my new dentist found it today.......... what the fuck