Stcktion point on 2002 Sentra accelerator

Exact same thing on my '03 Frontier (3.3/SC)! My wife is getting tired of me jerking her head off. :)

Glenn

Clean the inside of the throttle housing. Most likely has a bunch of crud inside binding up the throttle plate. Best way to clean it is to spray some cleaner on a rag and wipe out the gunk.

Verified. 2001 Sentra. Took an hour or so to fix. First, removed the rubber and plastic bits that connect to the throttle housing. It's a minor puzzle getting everything out of there, but not too hard. With some carb cleaner on cotton swabs, wiped out the points where the throttle plate rests against the throttle body. Repeated until it was clean. Reassembled everything. Problem solved.

Heed this -- Don't spray the carb or throttle body cleaner willy-nilly in there. Spray onto swabs or cloth, apply to the point of need only. Can damage things according to other posters.

-'Pete'

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try it myself. My wife's Xterra is starting to do the same thing.

Glenn

Yep, spraying cleaner in there can do more damage than good, wash garbage into places it would normally never get etc.

Thanks everybody! The throttle blade seems to be it. I couldn't see any crude, so it must not take much crude. Especially thanks for the warning against just spraying cleaner on the area.

The accelerator cable has a lot of slack in it (like 1/8"). How much slack should it have?

Ray

ray wrote:

How much is at the pedal and does it get wide open throttle? You want a

-tiny- bit of slack at WOT so you are using the pedal for the throttle stop and not the throttle plate itself. If you use the thottle plate for the stop, you'll end up breaking the cable.