95 Camry throttle stuck? Now Stalls
 

Hey yall,

I need some advice last night the car wouldn't slow down at a speed of 70mph so we slam on the breaks and it finally coasts down to 40mph pulled off the road and just slamed it in park. Went to pull off again and it wont drive past 20mph and now kept stalling...sounds like the thorttle got stuck but when we slammed it into park we messed up the thorttle again which is causing it to stall? But I'm not sure any advice is greatly apperiated thanks in advance all.

I think it's the Idle Air Controller and maybe the throttle cable is bad?

Good you got the car stopped without incident.

Suggest if these happens again to use you your brakes. The brakes have enough power to stop the car even if the throttle is stuck. Once to the side of the road turn off the engine.

Even though you want to stop quickly best not to put the trans into park unless the car is completely stopped. The park mechanism is not designed to stop a car but to keep it from moving once parked. If the car is going too fast the park locking device inside the trans will shear off resulting in trans damage. The result will also be the car is still moving.

The IAC controls idle, never heard of a situation where it allowed the throttle not to operate resulting in too high or too low of MPH.

The car uses throttle cables to control engine RPM.

Open the hood and find the air cleaner box, follow the large air hose from the box to the throttle body. On the throttle body is a pulley, this pulley is moved the cable.

The throttle cable runs from the gas pedal to a black box where the cruise control mechanism is. Then a different cable runs from the box to the throttle pulley.

When the gas pedal is pushed, the gas pedal cable moves a mechanism inside the cruise box which moves a cable going to the throttle pulley.

View the throttle pulley and rotate it with your hand (one direction will be free to rotate). Make sure it can rotate freely about 180 degrees more or less.

Have someone push the throttle pedal while you watch the pulley. Determine if the pulley rotates about the same amount and operates without sticking.

If your handy with tools you can easily remove the plastic cover over the cruise box then view the operation of both cables. The cover has one bolt and one plastic plug on the side holding it on.