TPS Drilling on '89 Cherokee

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LkuHomer

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Wilmington

• Jan 19, 2007

• #1

First off thanks for all the help last time. Been a week or so now, and still starts up.

Months ago I stopped driving this car because the TPS went bad, and when I went to replace it, the bolts broke off nice and flush with the bolt holes.:flamemad:
Now I don't know much about doing it, but I know there is not enough room to get to the holes with a drill. I moved hoses and wires out of the way, but there just isn't enough room. Do I have to take the throttle body out, or is there something else I can try?

 

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PaulJ

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Lynnwood, WA

• Jan 19, 2007

• #2

I'd just take the throttle body out to work on it. It's real simple to remove it.

 

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LkuHomer

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Wilmington

• Jan 19, 2007

• #3

Alright, I figured I would have to do that. Thanks and I will give it a shot.

 

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jfiscus

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Middletown, OH

• Jan 19, 2007

• #4

Where are you at - Wilmington, ??? If you're near Cincinnati, OH I have a spare throttle body I'd sell cheap to just replace yours with...

 

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LkuHomer

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Wilmington

• Jan 19, 2007

• #5

Delaware. So that's a bit out of the question. Still trying to figure out how to go about doing this.

 

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fitbmxseries1

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Fond du Lac, WI

• Jan 19, 2007

• #6

probably get a set of helicoils i messed mine up as i was drilling so i ended up having to drill a bit bigger and toss some helicoils in. took about 2 mins to pull the tb off the engine. drill press works awsome too. found this out after the first hole drilling catastrophe.

 

old_man

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Loveland, Colorado

• Jan 19, 2007

• #7

There is a guy in south Texas on this board that was advertising a throttle body for $15. Simple

 

Matthew Currie

NAXJA Member #760

Location

Vermont, land of big clay

• Jan 20, 2007

• #8

As I recall, the original bolts are metric and pretty fine. When I stripped one on my 87 I just retapped it for a slightly larger US coarse thread, and used different bolts. It never caused any problem.

 

1985xjlaredo

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Kansas City

• Jan 20, 2007

• #9

they are metric machine screws with torx heads... sorry I cant remember what size they were. go get some nice brass ones from a hardware store cause the ones I got in my replacement were crap!!!