tps or tranny ?

[atobe]

well this is been happening to my car for a few months... but lately it's been happening more and more often...

i get these really fast jerks in the car when i'm driving... it usually happens when i'm starting from 0 or merging on the freeway.. it's really fast jerks like the car just bogs down for a second and then it goes again i tried testing my TPS today thinking it's probbly that because it usually happens around 1500rpm but if i'm driving it hard it doesn't really happen but i'm confused about the terms of the test

here's what they told me to test



i discconected it on the car and got an ohm meter and checked the ohms



this is what i'm suppose to get but wtf is continuity ?

i did PSW to E1 i open the throttle then i get some reading near all the way open then i did IDL to E1 my meter just read 1 (which is out of range) the whole way from close to WOT

so i take it my TPS is broken? which would be why i'm having jerks @ lower rpms ? i just want to make sure.. i don't want to spend more useless $$

this is a gen2 BTW 3sfe w/o ETC tranny

[toyomoho]

Continuity would be 0 ohms.

"Out of range" would be the resistance is too great for the meter to read. Meaning no continuity.

If the TPS were say a light switch. Continuity measured through the wire terminals of the switch would mean the light switch is on. No continuity measured would mean the switch is off (or broken). The ohm reading would be out-of-range or infinite.

[JetspeedCamry]

Basically, Continuity means "connection". If something has continuity, it will show a numeric reading on the diode test on your multimeter. If there is no continuity, the multimeter will deflect, showing a -1.
That test is saying that at those particular angles, the multimeter should show "a connection" between the specified pins.
I don't like how it states it in degrees...makes it hard to test. My book shows the 2vzfe one being tested with a feeler guage and a .mm gap.

[atobe]

ok ok may be i did the test wrong because i was just getting out of range most of the time... i'll try another range later tonight... BUT BUT this morning when i drove to homedepot to buy an air hose... my car did NOT jerk at all not even once !!... may be it was just a lose connection and i fixed...either that or my car heals itself !!!