redvet

Anyone have this problem with their Tacoma?



My Tacoma's gas pedal sticks a bit on take off from a stop.
Tough to edge forward without a slight lunge.


The fix?

KING

I have a '94 P/U but mine also does the same thing though I've grown use to it now.

You can tell just how tough it is to press when you take in for a tire rotation or what not and the service guy drives it in. You can just see the truck jump from the amount of pressure he gives the pedal because the initial pressure wasn't enough for the truck to move.

I thought it was my truck because it is old but evidantly, I just found out it's not.

redvet

King
I'm sort of used to it too but it's still annoying.

KING

Especially when you drive a different vehicle for the first time and you find yourself accelerating harder than you need to. The owner (if happens to be the passenger), doesn't get a good impression from your driving habits and will slightly uncomfortable you driving his vehicle.

Has happened to me before.

jethro

Yeah mine does this constantly. All this time I thought I was the only one. I have no idea how to fix it, I have just gotten used to it also. I'm thinking maybe some WD-40 will do the trick?

Paul H.

My Nissan used to do this until I put some injector cleaner in the tank. The dealer actually told me about this. He told me it was carbon buildup. The cleaner flushed it out.

tulsa_97SR5

before I cleaned my throttle body the valve would stick shut sometimes & I'd have to use extra pressure to get the gas pedal unstuck. It's been perfect since I cleaned the TB.

Might be worth a shot & it's cheap! You can check if it's the valve in the throttle body by trying to move that lever with the engine off. If the stickiness is there you've isolated it.

KING

Mine does not actually stick, it's only hard to press when accelerating.

You have to give it more than your normal force to get it going.

I've used injector cleaner many times before and has not lessened the issue the way the pedel responds.

The acceleration cable on my buddies TOYOTA went out not too long ago, when he put a new one in, there was a big difference in the amount you had to push the pedal to get it going. I even felt the difference knowing his truck from a passenger view point when testing it.

Either way, I have to clean my throttle body so I might kill two birds with one stone with this maintenance service.

tulsa_97SR5

It seems like it would have to be the pedal that's sticking, or the cable, or the butterfly valve. There have been some posts about frayed throttle cables, but it seems like that would cause constant slow throttle response.

Good luck!

Brian

CTB

Clean the throttle body. We had a Chevy Astro van this summer come in this summer because of a sticky throttle, and after I clean the throttle body on it, there was a huge improvement.

Rick F.

My vote goes with the throttle body. The butterfly is sticking to the varnish buildup. I had that problem with my '97 Camry. The shop wanted about $45 to clean it. I used carb cleaner and about 10 minutes of my time. It seemed to occur about every 15-20,000 miles.

redvet

Step by step directions?
Carb cleaner brand?
I'm not familiar with FI engines.
Just old V-8's.