Idle control and maybe intake leaks, how to for swapping in a 52mm Vanagon throttle body Options

[VaccaRabite]

I broke the plug to my idle control valve. I bought a new plug housing. Easy. But I’ve had a devil of a time finding the right socket pins for the housing. Several weeks have been stalled waiting for 80 cents worth of pins that show up and are the wrong size.

So, knowing the 914 has to drive next weekend, I went full DACO and soldered a pigtail of wires into the ICV and then crimped them into place.

About to find out if it works, and will continue to work for a couple weeks while I sleuth out the right sockets for the plug Wish me luck!

Zach

[VaccaRabite]

After my test drive tonight the idle was still a little high. I decided to run the smoke machine again since I found and fixed the larger leak on the throttle body.

I found one of the tube connectors leaking from the plenum to the intake runners, and found a pinhole on a gasket at the plenum. I doubt the pinhole was doing much, but it’s easy enough to fix so I will.

There were no leaks at all with the new GoWesty TB. I figured there may be one at the join of the TB to the Plenum. But that area was sealed very well.

Since I have to wait and install a new throttle cable (!!!!) I’ll have plenty of time to put some hose clamps on the connectors and put a little RTV into the pinhole where the cold start injector used to be.