Right, ok. I get it. So even if idle uneven, it's moot.

When I "danced with the devil"  ** loosening and shifting the AFM wiper board,
I noted that the wiper tension to board is pretty minimal. That wiper
is a somewhat delicate flower.

In my hands it nearly became a twisted weed.    ;)

Neil.

** this procedure is claimed to provide the AFM wiper with new
resistive material to wipe against.

On 7/5/14, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 05:06 PM 7/5/2014, Neil N wrote:

>>idle can cause undue wear and tear on the AFM resistive strip?

> The ones I've seen (not that many really, probably fewer than ten)
> have all oscillated over a short arc whilst at idle.  If that's what
> you mean I have trouble seeing how it could be avoided without
> altering mass or damping or both of the vane, as unless I'm wrong the
> vane is quick enough to couple into the intake tract pulsations at idle
> speed.

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