1K9
No'mo Rocket 4 me
No TPS no ridding the rocket. How can one tell it might need replacement soon?
Is my TPS going bad?
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What are the symptoms?
1K9
No'mo Rocket 4 me
It is loosing it's setting. So, suddenly it does not want to idle or idles too fast. It does this intermittently.
EasTexRIII
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If it's losing it's setting & it's not loose - It's bad bro
1K9
No'mo Rocket 4 me
Okay. Someone has suggested that it can be cleaned and lubed. Is this so?
EasTexRIII
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40mmrrsmith
Supercharged
Rick do you have Tuneecu? You should be able to see what the TPS is doing. I can only generalize because I don't know the specs for the r3. The voltage should increment evenly and smoothly with throttle opening from closed to wide open. Most start around 0-1.5v( I've never seen one at 0) and smoothly rise to 4-5v. Check it while it's OK and when it idles too high & compare. I almost ordered a TPS when I had the same issue. Randomly but everyday it would idle to 1800 rpm and stay there until I switched off and restarted a couple of times. Then it would go up to 2200 for around 30secs and drop down to normal for a short time before repeating the high idle a few miles later. The other day I had the seat off and decided to check the air filter. I work at Hobby. There's lots of road work and parking garages being built. I think every grain of dirt that was dug up was in my air filter
It looked like a shop vac filter. Blew it out with compressed air, problem solved. I know you keep up with maintenance so this may not be your problem.
It looked like a shop vac filter. Blew it out with compressed air, problem solved. I know you keep up with maintenance so this may not be your problem.
1K9
No'mo Rocket 4 me
Rick do you have Tuneecu? You should be able to see what the TPS is doing. I can only generalize because I don't know the specs for the r3. The voltage should increment evenly and smoothly with throttle opening from closed to wide open. Most start around 0-1.5v( I've never seen one at 0) and smoothly rise to 4-5v. Check it while it's OK and when it idles too high & compare. I almost ordered a TPS when I had the same issue. Randomly but everyday it would idle to 1800 rpm and stay there until I switched off and restarted a couple of times. Then it would go up to 2200 for around 30secs and drop down to normal for a short time before repeating the high idle a few miles later. The other day I had the seat off and decided to check the air filter. I work at Hobby. There's lots of road work and parking garages being built. I think every grain of dirt that was dug up was in my air filter
Thank you for the garage tip. The filter on the RamAir is new. I have been checking with the Tune ECU gear. Do you know how to adjust the TPS in the front of the throttle bodies? I changed mine by operator error and perhaps correct set up there could help.
40mmrrsmith
Supercharged
EasTexRIII
Living Legend
Rick, do you have the Android version of Tuneecu? If so, as much as I like that version because it is simple to use, I don't think it has an adjustment area for the secondary TPS. I haven't found it and some others on here have said the same. so for some reason it looks like Android version didn't provide for that
