Sticking accelerator pedal

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sconut1

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I was on my way to work on Tuesday morning, when my Marauder decided to do a Toyota Prius impersonation. I was approaching a yellow light, punched it, (yea...I know...don't do that), and the pedal never came back up.

A quick hit to the brakes, a simultaneous shift to neutral, and a flick of the key and I came to a safe stop. I stepped on the accelerator a couple of times and it popped loose.

Needless to say, I'm a little nervous about hitting the skinny pedal too hard right now. Anyone had this happen before on their Marauder? If so, did you ever find out what happend?
 
make it stick again and look where its sticking, clean out your tb too, do you have any other floor mats besides the factory ones in there?
 
This happened in both my moms 88 Mercedes and 05 Lincoln Navigator. I just pulled the petal up with the toe of my shoe and it was fine after that. It simply was the floor mat being too far forward.
 
^^^what VistaBlue said^^^

That happened to a few members very early on. I don't remember what the exact cause was...I think one just loosened the brackets on the TB and repositioned the cable slightly.

Also, give the TB a good cleaning. Phoebe used to have a slight "stick" when first depressing the pedal. There was a buildup of gunk behind the butterflies that I cleaned using TB cleaner (be sure it says "safe for coated throttle bodies") and a couple of Q-tips. Nice and smooth now.
 
Did it again today! I need to get on this....fast. Good call on the mats... I'll have a look. I have the factory mat hooked in, but I have a rubber mat over the factory mat to save the original mat. I might need to re-think this if it's the mat getting stuck in the pedal
 
I had it happen, the gasket on my JLT came apart and a piece wedged the right hand side blade open on the throttle body, and I had nailed it at a light. Pretty hairy ride for a couple minutes.
 
I just had this happen. The mat is not it. The throttle body is clean and appears to be free. I moved it back at the TB by hand and all has been fine, but it still scares me. was looking hard at the TB spring but it looks fine, and I compared it to others.
If someone comes up with something please let me know, I take the family in this car lots.
 
chader said:
I just had this happen. The mat is not it. The throttle body is clean and appears to be free. I moved it back at the TB by hand and all has been fine, but it still scares me. was looking hard at the TB spring but it looks fine, and I compared it to others.
If someone comes up with something please let me know, I take the family in this car lots.
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Seeing as you have the trilogy kit, its probly a lost cause, The only thing you can do is trade me your car for mine (the throttle has NEVER stuck), and ill even do it even steven.


eh worth a try right??:cool4:
 
chader said:
I just had this happen. The mat is not it. The throttle body is clean and appears to be free. I moved it back at the TB by hand and all has been fine, but it still scares me. was looking hard at the TB spring but it looks fine, and I compared it to others.
If someone comes up with something please let me know, I take the family in this car lots.
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I'd call Jerry at Trilogy to see if they can help out. From what I heard the advice is free.
 
Boy do I feel like an idiot....

It absolutely was the floor mat. I pulled the mat back, and tried a WOT acceleration in a safe spot and no more throttle sticking. A good lesson learned..... if you're going to use a rubber mat over the factory mat, check it every time you get into the car. I might have to re-think the whole rubber floor mat thing.

Thanks everyone for posting (and hopefully not laughing too hard)
 
This just started happening to mine this week. TB seemed free when I removed the cover and tried it by hand. It feels like a flat spot just off idle and then jumps. Not good in traffic! Anyone find something? Well the temp here in NY got up to 26 last weekend and I went out and pulled the hose off the TB. A large brown ring of sludge around the throttle plates! 15 minutes with 3M throttle Body cleaner and an old tooth brush and everything was shiney again. I took it out to blow the residue out of the plenum before it dried. HUGE amounts of smoke and junk for a few hundred feet and its been running fine ever since. If it ever gets warm here again I'll take the IAC off and clean that also.
 
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