Throttle plate? You're talking about the metal thing u can push right inside there that I have the picture of? The thing with 3 holes on it?

Where are other vacuum lines? Where do those 3 go that are zip tied down in? As in the other ends of them? The vacuum cleaner lol. Car was fine until it wouldn't cranked and I just kept the key turned a little to long to give it time to crank and it blowed that hose off with popping sound. I would buy the theory that there's another off but where are they?

 

Yeah that. I can only make out one hole on the lower half in your picture. But if two more are hiding in the shadows, I'll take your word for it.

 

It may only be 1 hole. There are 3 CIRCLES lol. It looks like a smiley face to me that is surprised about something :O

 

The other two I see are the screws that hold the blade to the cross shaft.

 

He called me back and had me unplug IAC and start car. RPM's flew and we shut it off Waiting on him to get off phone so I can call back lol I just can't see me driving this car to him like this :/

 

Ok this is resolved My wonderful hubby decided to look around and trace some hoses. The pcv hose had popped off. He put that back and it is running normal now. My plan of action (according to mechanic) is Marvel Mystery Oil additive. He wants me to run that as it says on the bottle a few times to clean the injecters. He wants to find the source of the back firing and if it still happens after using a few tanks of additive then he will look more into it.

Question: the oil on the TB which wasnt that much anyway, could it have anything to do with all of this? Be a product of or not connected at all?

 

If the PCV valve is not connected it could make it a little worse. But that would take a little while of running it for the oil to get all the way up to your throttle body.

If you take the oil cap off while the motor is running do you feel any air coming out? Also wipe everything clean then keep an eye on it. Don't forget to clean the main intake hose that comes from the filter. It is possible that if the transported the motor with oil in it the oil got to places it should not have been.

 

The best way to use MMO is the next tank fillup, pour in half a bottle in first, then fill the tank. Drive the tank to 1/4 full, then repeat.

 

He he My first post in this thread

Once your all done with the injector cleaner you should replace you fuel filter. Tank type cleaner will also clean your tank. That will put a lot of goo in your filter.

 

I asked about the filter and he said it would even clean the filter and the last place it would go through was the injectors and the be burned out exhaust. It won't hurt to change it though. And yeah I recalled you posting about injectors. He said we'd start with that and it was something I could start treating at home. He wanted to get to the bottom of the backfiring though. If it did a true exhaust backfire I'll crap my pants lol. Someone shooting at me?? Lol