As some of you know I ran my XJ into the back of my expedition trying to load it, well after that I removed the hand throttle thinking that was the cause of it. It wasnt.
Friday Afternoon as I was leaving work, I had the same simptom again but this time it turned out much worse than just sheet metal damage.
I attempted a Utrun to leave the parking lot and the pedal floored itself again. This time it wouldnt allow me to return to Nuetral, and as my front left tire hit a loading dock, ot threw me up on the passenger side and into an apposing loading dock crushing the driver side of the roof. This time the roof met with my head at a good amount of force and left me with yet another crushed C5 and a good sized lump on the ole melon.
After getting it rights sided up and getting towed, I started to investigate. There was a recall warning that was posted in 91' warning XJ owners of a glitch between the cruise control and tps sensor.
Heres the interent findings:
Summary:
MALFUNCTION OF FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM THROTTLE POSTITION SENSOR COULD CAUSE INTERMITTENT HIGH ENGINE IDLE SPEED IMMEDIATELY AFTER STARTING ENGINE.
Consequence:
HIGH ENGINE IDLE WHEN CAR IS FIRST PLACED IN GEAR COULDRESULT IN UNEXPECTED ACCELERATION.
Remedy:
REPLACE THROTTLE POSITION SENSORS WITH SENSORS THAT WOULD SEND CORRECT SIGNALS TO THE FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM.
If any of you have a 89' with the factory cruise, you may want to perm disable it. This is the second time this has happened to me and I dont want to see any of you guys in the same boat.
Brian
Friday Afternoon as I was leaving work, I had the same simptom again but this time it turned out much worse than just sheet metal damage.
I attempted a Utrun to leave the parking lot and the pedal floored itself again. This time it wouldnt allow me to return to Nuetral, and as my front left tire hit a loading dock, ot threw me up on the passenger side and into an apposing loading dock crushing the driver side of the roof. This time the roof met with my head at a good amount of force and left me with yet another crushed C5 and a good sized lump on the ole melon.
After getting it rights sided up and getting towed, I started to investigate. There was a recall warning that was posted in 91' warning XJ owners of a glitch between the cruise control and tps sensor.
Heres the interent findings:
Summary:
MALFUNCTION OF FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM THROTTLE POSTITION SENSOR COULD CAUSE INTERMITTENT HIGH ENGINE IDLE SPEED IMMEDIATELY AFTER STARTING ENGINE.
Consequence:
HIGH ENGINE IDLE WHEN CAR IS FIRST PLACED IN GEAR COULDRESULT IN UNEXPECTED ACCELERATION.
Remedy:
REPLACE THROTTLE POSITION SENSORS WITH SENSORS THAT WOULD SEND CORRECT SIGNALS TO THE FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM.
If any of you have a 89' with the factory cruise, you may want to perm disable it. This is the second time this has happened to me and I dont want to see any of you guys in the same boat.
Brian
