Coming in late, so may have missed this, but sounds like a TPS adjustment to me.  Or maybe I should go back into my hole. 

Karl Wolz
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On Jun 12, 2012, at 11:31 PM, neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Ya I feel a little sheepish for suggest the melting idea, especially since
> I hadn't really tried it out! As for the wire stripper idea, I managed to
> expose one wire... barely. I see now how the knife is the way to go.
> 
> The cap is installed but made no difference to the slight-medium surging at
> ~ 2K RPM's, foot off gas, or foot lightly on gas. It may have smoothed out
> the idle but I'm not certain of that.
> 
> Time to reread the Bentley and Pro Training Digifant stuff again and go
> through everything on engine I can. It may simply be a worn throttle shaft
>  (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEGAgefVyQY ) affecting ability to
> get an accurate throttle valve switch setting, but the way I have the
> switch set now, (hair past specified max of 0.10 mm)  I know it closes at
> idle every time, engine cold or warm.
> 
> Neil.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> I've been doing some of this the last few days - gauge project and the
>> resulting foil repairs, grr.
>> 
>> All David wrote in other message is so true.
>> 
>> And trying to use wire stripper to make bare spots in the bight, so to
>> speak, did not work out for me. I went back to sharp knife.
>> 
>> alistair
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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