2002 Chevy Camaro throttle position sensor

Tiny
BLACKNIGHT
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  • 2002 CHEVROLET CAMARO
  • V8
  • 2WD
  • MANUAL
  • 86,000 MILES
The problem is after a while of driving in closed loop. When I come to a stop the idle will drop slightly and the 02's will drop from 3 digits numbers to two digits starting with the front driverside, passenger front, and then teh rears. After a few secs the idle with rev back up and the 02's will read fine.
What I have checked. The front 02 with a digital voltmeter in accordance to my haynes manual. They pass all the test. They only have my 15k miles on then anyhow. I have tried another maf, tps sensor and wired in a new tsp plug with pigtail. I totally believe the problem to be tps related for these reasons. Intermittaly with tps will read a + percentage of throttle when I am not touching the gas. I have reset it many times and the idle problem will go away for a short bit only to return. I have tested all the wires for the tps and here are the reading. Blue and black wire 0.71, black and pink 4.99 and wot 4.82. I have tried wiggling the wires and tapping the pcm to see if the readings change and they don't. If I unplug the tps all the problems go away. Better idle and more power. The rpm's also at times will drop way down in closed loop with I push the clutch in.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009 AT 11:21 AM

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Tiny
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From what you describe it seems this car is not driven much. Have you tried cleaning the tps switch and throttle plate with choke cleaner yet. Due to the oil vapor return being in front of the throttle plate, it becomes sticky as well as the tps switch. A thorough cleaning of this should solve teh problem you describe. And it's easy to do by just pulling off the air duct with the engine off. It may be hard to start after cleaning though.
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 AT 6:05 PM

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