anybody ever remove the springs on a TBI throttle shaft?

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posted in here earlier, thinking of removing the springs on my TBI and going with regular return spring like a carb set up. seems to be overkill on the spring tension and would make for a softer pedal,easier to feather into the throttle. Any thoughts??
 

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I'd be curious to know as well. My buddy's '87 is almost undrivable with it's stock springs, so much pedal effort
 

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I'd be curious to know as well. My buddy's '87 is almost undrivable with it's stock springs, so much pedal effort
seems to be a issue with that year,can't figure out why they put a spring on each side of the shaft for return, even if I could reduce the spring tension would be a plus
 

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I really hope you are successful, my son's 87 TBI has the same issue. Really hard to give it "just a little" gas due to the stiff springs.
 

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Ok a quick update!!! I took the spring off the opposite side from the cable linkage. One screw and popped the spring out, big difference in the throttle linkage tension!! I made a spacer out of a brass door bushing to take up the space of the spring,not sure if that was necessary but its in and seems to work fine!! I will add a couple pictures later on. just waiting on the rebuild gaskets to arrive and see how it works the truck
 

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I really hope you are successful, my son's 87 TBI has the same issue. Really hard to give it "just a little" gas due to the stiff springs.
I just posted what I tried ,throttle tension is much much better!!
 

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the spring is on the linkage side of the body and the brass spacer is where the other spring used to be!!
 

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