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Subject:Re: Throttle Valve Switch: What the...?
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:18:42 -0700

The Aux Air Regulator has a similar spade terminal but 12VDC instead of the
5VDC that your ECU puts through the Throttle Position Switch.

Check the voltage at the connector before you hook it up and save some
trouble.    :)

Or put some tape on it with a label.

On 10/25/07, Eastman, Cecil @ ELM <Eastman.C@atwoodmobile.com> wrote:
>
> What's German for "two steps forward, one step back"?  "Vanagon", of
> course.
>
> The aforementioned throttle valve switch, after all of my loving care,
> took
> a complete crap on me.  The switch doesn't click on at all under any
> condition, either by use or even manually.  It's dead, and I have no idea
> why.
>
> Someone, whose e-mail I have since deleted, stated that it's possible to
> switch the plugs for some other component with the TVS plug and thereby
> kill
> the TVS.  At the time I didn't think I could make that mistake, thinking
> that I had positively identified the right plug, but now I'm not so sure.
> Yet I even checked the Bentley's and I didn't see any possible suspects
> from
> the wiring harness that I could have switched by accident.
>
> Anybody else have any experience with this thing?  In the mean time:
> "Yoohoo, Bus Depot..."
>
> Cecil
>

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