garrity455

Hey guys, anyone ever heard of this. I have a 2000 Automatic Trans-Am. The other day when I went to drive it, the gas pedal stopped at about 1/8th throttle. At first, I thought something was under the pedal. Then I realized it was not, I pushed harder, and the pedal went further, but the engine did not accelerate anymore. So I stopped and got out. I had my brother give it some gas. The cable from the pedal goes into what looks to be the cruise control box. Then another cable goes to the throttle body. He kept jamming the gas, and finally the throttble body snapped, and the engine revved. It was like something was stuck in the cruise box connection. Now today it happened again. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?

garrity455

Ok looked into it a little further. The throttle body itself revs free if done by hand. So it must be something in the cruise control box binding up, stopping the pedal from going down.

mannyman84

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i doubt its gonna be your cruise control box...the cruise control should only pull one way and let it be free the other way, u might just need a new pedal cable...when the wires wear out they will get stuck inside because the little wires get stuck on the walls

Aetos

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was your bird built by toyota? >.>

garrity455

Ha, ha I hope not. As for the cable, I never thought of that, the cable itself. I assumed it was in the cruise control, traction control box, but possibly the cable. Thanks.

Danny2tek

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lol... beat me to it.

garrity455

Sorry, guess it is actually the traction control, not cruise control.

melon07

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did you ever solve this problem? I'm having the same thing