Yes you can test it w/a voltmeter. From memory, fully closed throttle blades
should give around a 0.5V reading and fully opened should give around 4.5V.
There are several posts in the archives - a search w/words "TPS" and "voltage"
should dig them up. Also remember that there are 3 wires going into the TPS - 1
supplies the input voltage of around 5.0V, 1 is grounded at 0.0V and the other 1
is the output signal that you will be checking.
Hope this helps - Latr,
Shane
"Lora J. Knepper" wrote:
> Well, headed on down to Advance auto to get the battery looked at. It's
> fine. All the kid working there could tell me when I explained my problem
> is to drive down to the store 20 miles down the road since "Dodges are odd,
> and one of the guys down there has one of these Dakotas"
>
> So maybe it is the TPS... any way I can check it without having to get a new
> part? Looks special order from the research I've done.
>
> ~ lora
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