Tii: Fun Alternative For NLA Part

[PaulTWinterton]

Had to share.

[jgerock]

Your black one is better than my blue one.  Great alternative.

[ray_]

I see you have extras!

 

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[tomphot]

I see what you’ve done here and I can appreciate it.  However, a couple years ago, as a new owner of a Tii, I would have no idea of what I was looking at.  Some discription wouldn't hurt with posts like this for the 70+% of readers who visit the forum and don’t post or who aren’t in the know.  

Just a suggestion and no offense meant. 

[PaulTWinterton]

26 minutes ago, tomphot said:

Just a suggestion and no offense meant. 

 

 No offense taken.  

 

For those that haven't dismantled your tii for fun or necessity you are looking at the bottom of the throttle body on the intake side of the engine.  The throttle body regulates the amount of air entering the engine.  Or at least it is supposed to.  Often air leaks occur causing poor running issues.  The bottom of the butterfly (throttle plate) is a potential culprit for "uncontrolled" air entering the system.

 

The factory installed a rubber cap with a wire clip to seal the bottom of the shaft.  The cap and clip are most often missing on an old tii.  They are also NLA.  For this reason I sourced these chair leg feet for less than a dollar each.

 

 

[SteveJ]

Yeah, but now I have a wobbly chair.

[ray_]

3 minutes ago, SteveJ said:

Yeah, but now I have a wobbly chair.

 

Buy another car ?

[SteveJ]

19 minutes ago, ray_ said:

 

Buy another car ?

Well...I do have three more plastic caps. Three more tii's for the garage?

[g_force]

I need to spend more time with the parts manual seeking out all the little bits and bobs my car lacks.  I've never seen this, and never even thought to look, despite having had a tii nearly 20 years. 

 

Maybe we should start a thread about smallish bits and bobs that one might not think to look for - stuff like this, the grommets with the door on the lock linkage, the hooks at the corner of the roundie grills. . .  

[bluedevils]

any pictures of the wire clip? I think rubber cap was available a few months ago, got a few from blunttech but have no idea about the wire clip.

[PaulTWinterton]

4 hours ago, bluedevils said:

any pictures of the wire clip?

 

Realoem.com

 

[Glen Karr]

Paul,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  Checked with my inspection mirror and do not have the cap or clip.  Found the same chair leg caps on Amazon.  Getting ready to order.

Glen

[PaulTWinterton]

30 minutes ago, Glen Karr said:

Paul,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  Checked with my inspection mirror and do not have the cap or clip.  Found the same chair leg caps on Amazon.  Getting ready to order.

Glen

I haven't tried installing a cap on a TB still on the engine.  Might require removing  #2 and/or #3 runners.  A little grease in the cap will help.

[Glen Karr]

On ‎8‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 2:26 PM, PaulTWinterton said:

I haven't tried installing a cap on a TB still on the engine.  Might require removing  #2 and/or #3 runners.  A little grease in the cap will help.

Paul,

Picked up 4 of the leg caps at the hardware store.  Mine are white but they look good.  To install the cap I removed the expansion bellows from the air cleaner and throttle body.  Greased up the cap and squeezed my hand in there and pushed up on the cap.  Seated pretty far up so it should have a good seal.  Now to see if it makes a difference.  Were you able to see a difference?

Glen

 

[conkitchen]

Way to shepherd in a new hack