Ok....................
This is one of my classic "One step forward, two steps back" updates.
What you see is a successful solution to the mind numbing ordeal trying to get the throttle cable thing solved. This works really well...................... Finally.
Then, for whatever bass ackwards reason, I decide to deal with the TPS sensor. (Now located at the back of the very last TB,...the one closest to the firewall).
I don't know why I do it this way I gotta tell ya....You'd think that I would've tried to deal with the TPS sensor while the head was off the engine, but noooooooo.
I gotta do it the hard way.
Screws hold the thing on......... Phillips head metric screws. With absolutely no way in hell to get any kind of screw driver in between the firewall, and the head of the screw.
Does that stop me from trying to get it tight?
Nope.
Does it take a stupidly long time to do it, filled with the kind of cuss words typically associated with drunken sailors?
Yep.
But I did it.
Again, instead of checking the TPS sensor calibration while it was off the engine, when it could've been screwed on that TB easily, I have to do it when there is no room to do it. And now, even though I managed to get it screwed on to the TB, checking the thing for calibration determined that in it's present mounting position, and hooked up to a 9 volt battery to give the thing voltage,........
It shows 2.3 v at idle. WOT reads another 7v. (The check of this battery shows 9.2v)
When you move the test equipment over to the 70mm TB that used to be on the turbocharged setup, It shows .91 v at idle, and 8.02v at WOT.
So then whats the take away?.......
The freakin BMW TPS sensor is showing twice as much voltage at idle....and there is no way to adjust it.
So,....nothing left to do but remove the TPS sensor from the back of that TB.....The very same one that took for freakin ever to get tight, now has to get loosened, and removed to check it. After more D.S. cussing, I manage. As soon as the screws are removed, it becomes immediately apparent that the thing is preloaded as it spins slightly counter-clockwise.
Once removed and hooked up to the test equipment, It will read 0v at full closed idle, and 9v at full open. The bushings that are in the thing will not let me rotate it so that I could put it on the TB, and rotate it counterclockwise to show 0v.
So then....whatya do?
You beat the bushings out, and drill some big assed holes to allow that to happen. Which is what I did.
Once you do that, you turn your attention to the rewire....Remember my really pretty harness?
It don't look like that anymore.
I gutted it so I could pull the TPS sensor wires out and splice them in at the rear of the harness. Now it looks like ass on a plate.
Fortunately, it's underneath the whole menagerie that is now a bunch of BMW stuff.
Again, Why didn't I do this when the whole engine was out of the car when I couldve gutted it, then repaired it while it was sooo easy to do? Because I just love to make sht way harder than it has to be.
But I did it...
Wanna know the whole irony to the whole debacle that this day was?..... It goes perfectly hand in hand with all of the other "do it twice mike" work ethic I make for myself...
I have a Megasquirt computer......I'm pretty sure that I couldv'e just left sht alone, and calibrated the TPS sensor through the setup tools with the tuning software.
Somebody tell me that I coulda done this.
Then somebody give me a gun,.. cause .I'm gonna shoot myself.