High idle after cleaning throttle

After cleaning the carbon out of my throttle, my idle has been a good bit higher. At first, I started it up and no matter what I did it wouldn't drop below like 1900 rpm even after the engine was at operating temp and driving it around for a while. I shut it off and started it again and drove it, the idle stayed up at like 1500 rpm. Before I cleaned it the idle was steady at like 850 to 950. The throttle cable doesn't look like it has any slack in it and the throttle is completely closed when the cable is relaxed. What should I do??

 

no I didn't, should I have?

 

x2 on the battery...try unplugging it now (let it sit for a minute or two, then plug it back in).

 

disconnect just the negative or both?

 

Just negative should do it (you're just breaking the circuit and letting your computer reset).

 

Aha, CRAP I'm retarded.. that's like the first thing you do when you clean the throttle. I should know these kids of things, being an AF aircraft mechanic, kill power before doing stuff like this.

 

Well i disconnected the battery for a few minutes then tried it, but its still idling at 1400rpm...

 

rog. could it be caused by a bad gasket for the MAF?

 

ohh ok, I'll take a look and see if i missed anything. I was redoing an air duct that they guy who had my truck before me did. He had the duct that ran down the front right fender from the air box, but didn't really have it connected to the air box. So I took it all out, put 3" ducting and hose clamped it all together. I might not have connected something tight enough when I put the air box back in and everything else I took off.

 

Back in the day, on my first Tacoma (it was a '98) I recall that to reset the computer I had to remove power for something like 15-20 minutes. A brief disconnect/reconnect wasn't enough to do more than loose the presets on the radio.

It is very possible to I am incorrectly remembering. I have not tested this on my '02.

 

I thought that could be a possibility too, so I'm just leaving it disconnected tonight and giving it a shot along with double checking all my lines and connections in the morning.

 

well I gave it all a shot, couldn't find any lines loose or anything, had the battery disconnected all night, and its still idling higher at 1250rpm, but when the A/C is on, it drops down to just a little over 1000rpm.. I'm at a loss as to what to do. Could it be from connecting the air duct in the fender to the air box? I've had that hole to the side in the air box plugged for about as long as I've owned the truck, and it hadn't idled like this before.

 

When you cleaned your throttle body, did you break/remove the gasket between the throttle body housing and the engine block?

 

not that I know of, all I did was take off the intake duct then sprayed the cleaner in it and scrubbed it with a toothbrush, then wiped it our with a towel. I didn't take off anything other than that.

 

i did this like last week and the same thing happened to me and damn i was nervous. it was idling super high and the check engine light was on. i just kept running on it and after i put some miles on it and turned it on and off like 3 or 4 times it just went away

 

Mine ran higher back in April when I cleaned the throttle, but it settled down after a few days. I figured it was Seafoam residue that just needed to go away.

 

After cleaning the throttle body, you need to rev up the rmp's and then drive it for aprox 1 to 2 miles try to give it gas, the computer has to reset itself.