Where to buy a TPS
#1
Contributing Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Vancouver BC
Posts: 783
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Where to buy a TPS
Any recommendations on where you would buy a new TPS? I was thinking of going to a dealership, but just wanted to know if anyone has tried a 3rd party and has success? Please post cost.
#3
Contributing Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Morgan Hill, Ca
Posts: 1,066
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Bought mine on eBay ($10).. just to see how it worked. The guy cut the attached connector so I could measure easily with the ohmmeter.
As a by product of that I realized there was nothing wrong with mine, nor the cheap one I bought on eBay.
The problem was the idle seating not not quite fully returning to the idle fully closed position. The setting on the TPS is a knife edge sharp setting.. either giving the ECM the idle position as engaged, or not. Easy to fix once I understood the problem.
As a by product of that I realized there was nothing wrong with mine, nor the cheap one I bought on eBay.
The problem was the idle seating not not quite fully returning to the idle fully closed position. The setting on the TPS is a knife edge sharp setting.. either giving the ECM the idle position as engaged, or not. Easy to fix once I understood the problem.
#4
Contributing Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Vancouver BC
Posts: 783
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
#5
Contributing Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Morgan Hill, Ca
Posts: 1,066
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I'm referring to the idle screw/plate contact. I could put pressure on it.. the TPS would register the correct resistance. The TPS was set so critical to that last couple of thousands of movement you could get by physically pressing on the seating... that any resistance there would prevent the TPS from detecting the idle position.
#6
Contributing Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Morgan Hill, Ca
Posts: 1,066
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Btw, if you have any doubt as to whether the TPS is the problem (or its setting), you can disconnect the TPS connector (carefully so you don't break the tabs). You will get an error, but if the original symptoms go away... the problem is the TPS, or its setting.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
FS[FourCorners]: First Gen Tacoma/4Runner Manual Hub Spindles
G-off
Axles - Suspensions - Tires - Wheels
2
12-29-2015 12:44 PM
_Nicco_
86-95 Trucks & 4Runners
35
09-21-2015 03:06 PM