Alright guys, I need some help here. It seems like with my 3G's, when it rains it pours...
So the DX that I've been using for a commuter car has come to a screetching hault... ...or really just the opposite.
Now I'm at one of those problems which makes the car EXTREMELY unsafe to drive. Here's the story...
A few months back the car was acting up a real lot, and the choke was not working, so I decided to do a rebuild on the carb. After the rebuild, I reinstalled the carb, and realized that I should not have put the cap on the mixture screw before I reinstalled it, instead I should have waited until after the carb was installed, and tuned. So now the car runs too rich.. .. not that big of a deal....
Also, the choke is still not working right, so the automatic fast-idle kick-down is not working. I need to tap the gas to get the rpm's to fall once the car is warmed up. Once again, not that big of a deal.
Here's where the fun starts... Yesterday, after going to my car to warm it up for the drive home from work, the car idled high as normal, and when the temp guage was levelled out, it was time to tap the gas to drop the idle and head home. NOT what happened. When I tapped the gas, the car went up to 4-5K rpm's and would have kept on climbing, but I shut the car off.
Anyway, long story short, it seems like the throttle is stuck on it b/c the car wanted to take off on me, and did not stop despite having both feet hammered on the brake. I was able to get the car out onto the highway, and didn't have to put my foot on the gas pedal at all getting up the on-ramp, and up to 65mph. This is a MAJOR problem. I know the pedal itself is not stuck, as I put my toe under the pedal and pulled it up, and it was already all the way up. The throttle cable looks good.
But what I'm not sure about is, could this be a tranny problem? Remember, this is an automatic.
IF this is not a tranny problem, I'll just pull the working carb off the DX I have for parts, and slap it on this one, but there's no such thing as warmth up here (it's currently 12 degrees right now).
Any info is greatly appreciated. Anyone else ever have something like this happen to them?
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