Car is starting its reduced engine power bull again. This time 30 miles from home. I'm almost home now but I got hungry and luckily my father works nights and is a police officer so he went to get me food lol. Anyway, dad also has the keys to a friends shop and I checked the codes to see if I could clear them long enough to make it home. No dice. Codes are P1516 manufacturer controlled vehicle speed, idle control, and aux input. (whatever that means) P0220 and P0120 throttle peddle position sensor switch A and B malfunction. I'm on my phone. This sucks.
I believe he's 100% correct. The EXACT same thing happened to me, except I was 200+ miles from home. The dealer I took it to also replaced it under warranty, even with a maggie on it.
My A/C died on the way home from V-Day III - The DIC-head displays "Service AC". This car is wearing me out with all the trips to the dealer. My first GM car may be my last.
No pics but I think I can walk you through it. The stock TB has two lines on the bottom of it. On goes to the driver side of the engine to a crossover tube and the other goes under the radiator shroud. Just disconnect the line that goes from the engine to the TB and remove it completely. Now take the other line the goes under the radiator shroud and remove it from the TB and reconnect it to where you pulled the other line off the crossover tube.
When you do the maggie swap, this cross over gets replaced and the inlet is now on the passengers side so just wait until you do the swap to do it or you'll just be doing double work.
These lines do have antifreeze in them so be careful if you do this when the engine is hot. Also, if you pull a line off and no antifreeze comes out, you probably picked the wrong lines. The two lines are the lowest part of the throttle body. Also, just to make it look a little better, I used vise grips and clamped onto the nipples and twisted them out. They can be removed with breaking them off but you will destroy them getting them out. But its not like they will ever be used again anyway.
Okay just for grins I plugged in the 90mm TB with the new harness and the reduced engine power went away. Obviously I still have no control over the car because it wasn't actually installed but, it looks like it is the TB. I beat on the TPS sensor and the TB motor but it never fixed itself. Its to hot right now to mess with it so I just shut the hood.
The coolant lines actually act as a heater so bypassing them will keep it cooler. However, the 90mm TB doesn't have any coolant lines running through it so the bypass is necessary anyway for the swap.
The 90 will fit under the hood. They did it on the LS2.
The snout doesn't have a gasket were it bolts to the blower. It was sealed with what looks like a sealant like lock tight. I made my own gasket for the TB. The bolts are the same thread and pitch as stock, just longer.
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