Right, ok. I get it. So even if idle uneven, it's moot. When I "danced with the devil" ** loosening and shifting the AFM wiper board, I noted that the wiper tension to board is pretty minimal. That wiper is a somewhat delicate flower. In my hands it nearly became a twisted weed. ;) Neil. ** this procedure is claimed to provide the AFM wiper with new resistive material to wipe against. On 7/5/14, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 05:06 PM 7/5/2014, Neil N wrote: >>idle can cause undue wear and tear on the AFM resistive strip? > The ones I've seen (not that many really, probably fewer than ten) > have all oscillated over a short arc whilst at idle. If that's what > you mean I have trouble seeing how it could be avoided without > altering mass or damping or both of the vane, as unless I'm wrong the > vane is quick enough to couple into the intake tract pulsations at idle > speed.
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