FeralSquirrel
Registered user
Good Evening, GS Sages.
After a successful and fun period since my Final Drive issues last year, my 09' GSA has decided that once again: life isn't worth living without issues.
I had a persistent issue where the throttle was misbehaving recently - trial, error and unwished but necessary disassembly narrowed this down to the left-hand throttle cable and lo and behold....the bloody thing had somehow managed to break the thread on the fitting which goes into the throttle body housing!
On removing it, I found a lovely pair of kinks as well, one in the TB side and another on the bowden box side. It was a real BMW "adventure" getting stuck in and swapping that out, but all was well....until a week later when the left side kept sticking open!
Left-hand throttle body keeps sticking. Sometimes it's full, other times it's when it's roughly 4/5 to full.
I want to say it isn't coincidence, but having pulled everything apart again today I've found the bowden box and rest of the throttle cabling is absolutely fine - it's 100% the actual TB. Whenever this is pulled to 4/5 or so open (or more) it has a tendency to just stay open.
I've fully pulled the TB out to inspect it -I'm absolutely not lubricating it with anything for fear of "lubing that which should not be" with anything I shouldn't, I can't see anything "stuck" in there either. It doesn't seem to take a lot to close it again and I'm almost tempted to say it just needs a more robust spring, but if it's a symptom of something else entirely. I can't see any sign of the actual pulley getting that dreaded break or cracking leading to an infamous "JB weld and a washer" fix, for what it's worth.
Any ideas before I bang my head against it as the next solution?
After a successful and fun period since my Final Drive issues last year, my 09' GSA has decided that once again: life isn't worth living without issues.
I had a persistent issue where the throttle was misbehaving recently - trial, error and unwished but necessary disassembly narrowed this down to the left-hand throttle cable and lo and behold....the bloody thing had somehow managed to break the thread on the fitting which goes into the throttle body housing!
On removing it, I found a lovely pair of kinks as well, one in the TB side and another on the bowden box side. It was a real BMW "adventure" getting stuck in and swapping that out, but all was well....until a week later when the left side kept sticking open!
Left-hand throttle body keeps sticking. Sometimes it's full, other times it's when it's roughly 4/5 to full.
I want to say it isn't coincidence, but having pulled everything apart again today I've found the bowden box and rest of the throttle cabling is absolutely fine - it's 100% the actual TB. Whenever this is pulled to 4/5 or so open (or more) it has a tendency to just stay open.
I've fully pulled the TB out to inspect it -I'm absolutely not lubricating it with anything for fear of "lubing that which should not be" with anything I shouldn't, I can't see anything "stuck" in there either. It doesn't seem to take a lot to close it again and I'm almost tempted to say it just needs a more robust spring, but if it's a symptom of something else entirely. I can't see any sign of the actual pulley getting that dreaded break or cracking leading to an infamous "JB weld and a washer" fix, for what it's worth.
Any ideas before I bang my head against it as the next solution?
