anybody ever remove the springs on a TBI throttle shaft?

[Ontheboulder]

posted in here earlier, thinking of removing the springs on my TBI and going with regular return spring like a carb set up. seems to be overkill on the spring tension and would make for a softer pedal,easier to feather into the throttle. Any thoughts??

 

[TotalyHucked]

I'd be curious to know as well. My buddy's '87 is almost undrivable with it's stock springs, so much pedal effort

 

[Ontheboulder]

I'd be curious to know as well. My buddy's '87 is almost undrivable with it's stock springs, so much pedal effort

seems to be a issue with that year,can't figure out why they put a spring on each side of the shaft for return, even if I could reduce the spring tension would be a plus

 

[WP29P4A]

I really hope you are successful, my son's 87 TBI has the same issue. Really hard to give it "just a little" gas due to the stiff springs.

 

[Ontheboulder]

Ok a quick update!!! I took the spring off the opposite side from the cable linkage. One screw and popped the spring out, big difference in the throttle linkage tension!! I made a spacer out of a brass door bushing to take up the space of the spring,not sure if that was necessary but its in and seems to work fine!! I will add a couple pictures later on. just waiting on the rebuild gaskets to arrive and see how it works the truck

 

[Ontheboulder]

I really hope you are successful, my son's 87 TBI has the same issue. Really hard to give it "just a little" gas due to the stiff springs.

I just posted what I tried ,throttle tension is much much better!!

 

[Ontheboulder]

I just posted what I tried ,throttle tension is much much better!!

 

[Ontheboulder]

the spring is on the linkage side of the body and the brass spacer is where the other spring used to be!!

 

[Ontheboulder]

the spring is on the linkage side of the body and the brass spacer is where the other spring used to be!!

hopefully this can help anyone else in the same boat!!