Sticking gas pedal

[dh854]

My gas pedal is sticking badly when the temperature is around freezing (No, My Volvo is not mutating into a Toyota, haha). As the day warms up, the problem goes away.
I had this problem right after I bought the car 8 years ago. The dealer did a throttle body cleaning and the problem went away.
Now I want to do this myself. Do I really need to take the throttle body apart for this? I think I've seen cleaner spray in the parts store that does the magic without removing the TB. But is that save? I don't want to ruin my injectors or other parts.

Thanks for any ideas,

Dirk

[pro_star]

This is on your 97??? strange.

I'm of no use to you, I haven't had this issue yet.

[dh854]

Yes, this is on my 97' 850. I think our engines are very similar, you must still have the non ETM setup, right? That came only in 99' as har as I know. And it's the same LPT turbo.
I have to look into this a little further, because when this happens I also get a kind of screachy noise from the pedal area.

[pro_star]

well, I have the high pressure turbo, and yes, non etm. Which is why I was kinda shocked. scratchy noise, is it possible you've got something under there, some dirt or something near the pedal...umm....oh god here's where we see my amazing technical vocabulary...where the pedal goes underneith...or some ice or something that's freezing up....

[dh854]

Oops, sorry I missed that you have a T5. Different animal.

I guess I have to bend my back and check things out under there. Still I'm interested in finding out about those TB cleaner sprays.

Thanks, Dirk

[bdimag]

i think the issue w/ the sprays is messing up the throttle position sensor...

if you pull off the hose to the TB, could you get in and clean it? shouldn't take a whole lot of work.

[FCPGroton]

i think the issue w/ the sprays is messing up the throttle position sensor...

if you pull off the hose to the TB, could you get in and clean it? shouldn't take a whole lot of work.

+1

It is not hard to clean at all and you do not need to remove the throttle body to clean it.

[Somthngfrce]

i think the issue w/ the sprays is messing up the throttle position sensor...

if you pull off the hose to the TB, could you get in and clean it? shouldn't take a whole lot of work.

+1

It is not hard to clean at all and you do not need to remove the throttle body to clean it.

+2 on this...... The spray is easy to use and relatively cheap, however not worth damaging TPS.

[dh854]

Thanks guys. Thats what I will do and stay away from the spray cleaner. Now one more question: What do you use as a cleaner? First instinct to me would be WD40 and a rag. Because that's what I use a lot for all kinds of stuff.

But is there anything better? Some kind of solvent, maybe.

[FCPGroton]

I used brake cleaner so it would evaporate away.