My '94 3vze has the TPS facing the pax side. That's how all the 3.0 TPS were to my knowledge. Mine works fine.

 

Thanks everybody!! I guess it might be ok as is. I just have to test it & adjust it if needed because of the code.

 

no, just a horrible carb with about 50 vacuum lines on it!

 

I have a 92 3.0 and it is facing the passenger side just like yours.

 

My '89 faces the driver.

 

so... on the end of the throttle 'shaft' there are "tangs" or tabs or whatevers...
so consider the throttle shaft rotates clockwise:
| ( closed throttle )
becomes
/ ( 1/2 open throttle )
becomes
-- ( fully open throttle ) {sorry but there's no easy way to make a long 'dash'}

at the ends of those 'tangs', 'tabs' whatevers are where the TPS is engaged by the throttle. That means that the TPS can potentially be installed 180 degrees out from 'stock' and still work since the TPS and throttle engagement is symmetric.
Make sense now?

 

can't put vacuum lines in backwards or can you?

 

'89 3.0, faces the driver's side.

If you do end up needing to adjust it, replace the screws after you eventually get them off of there. The stock screws are M4 x 0.7 thread with a phillips drive. You can get either M4 socket head hex drives or torx drive screws to put in there. Then you can tighten/remove them with a key, rather than a driver.

Mike