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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 09:54 AM
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Low idle and CEL

Buddy of mine hase a 96 that is idleing low arounf 500 rpm or so and making a little bit of knock and when he psuhes the accelarator no change in rpm but CEl comes on. He replaced the cam senson thinking it was the problem but no luck
 
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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 11:40 AM
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can he drive it? will it rev in park or anything of the such? by the sounds of the description it will start and idol and thats it, that id take an educated guess and say its the tps unit which is a spendy peice from what ivce heard
 
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Old Jun 8, 2009 | 02:34 PM
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Yup, definately sounds like a throttle pedal electronics problem..

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