

| Subject: | Re: 1000 mile rebuild recommendations? |
| From: | Kenneth Lewis |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:07:18 -0400 |
Michael, Just because the AFM is rebuilt doesn't mean it's good. Possibly the spring is not tensioned correctly. I wish there was a good procedure out there to tune them. Here are some things I have learned by experimentation. YMMV. First you need a good voltmeter and O2 sensor. The three throttle body alignments outlined in the Bentley should be checked. Carefully pry the black cap off . If you don't mess it up too bad it will go back on and stay without glue. Drill out the plug so the allen screw is accessible. Use an allen wrench and determine the base setting of the allen screw. That is, find out how many turns until it bottoms out so you can return to where you started, just in case. Write it down. Likewise mark the black plastic wheel so you can return it to it's original starting place. The engine has to be up to operating temperature. Disconnect the O2 sensor and hook up the voltmeter to it. If it is running lean the reading should be near zero. Ideally the voltage should toggle equally between zero and (about) one volt. Off the top of my head I can not remember which way to turn the wheel to enrich the mixture. I noticed that after a few notches in the right direction the engine RPMs picked up and smoothed out. Unfortunately the spring tension that equated to the best sounding idle did not give the best reading from the O2 sensor. This is the part where I wish I had a good procedure written out. I fiddled with the spring tension and idle screw (on the throttle body) until I got a happy balance between idle and good O2 sensor output. Use the allen screw to fine tune the O2 output voltage. Hopefully the output is good at higher RPMs, otherwise you need to adjust for that. I run through this procedure every year before vehicle emissions testing. Good Luck, Ken Lewis http://neksiwel.20m.com/ (more O2 info here)
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