ok so i decided to take apart my throttle body and see what the hell is causing it to seize up. once i took everything off i noticed that the gear thats on the actual sensor was rusted i mean really rusty! so i took and wire brush and carb cleaner and cleaned it off and then sprayed car cleaner everywhere. then i put wd-40 in the spring and all the gears and let it soak there for a couple of hours and now its back to normal. it opens easy and closes by itself. now all i have to do is by realy tiny screws to replace the rivets i took out and then try it out. i will try it out tomorrow cause i still have to get the screws!

heres is some pictures of inside the TB.



also i will be trying to find a real cheap rx8 TB and trying it out.

 

by the way if know one knows in the past month and a half i been through 4 different TB's!

 

thats alot of throttle bodies! keep us updated on the rx8 throttle, i remember hearing about those back in 2005...

 

hmmm
.. do you have any better pics of whats rusted?

send one old one up here to o-town! ill bring it to a machine shop local see if they can come up with a way of sealing it!

 

what was rusted was the top gear on the first page.