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Hello everyone, My 1981 GL 4wd 1.8 wagon had sat for @ 8 months while I slowly found/fixed the electric cooling fans issues.... After a fresh battery charge I jump in to start it up and the gas pedal is 'Stuck' and won't budge! I check the accelerator cable and it's fine/free and try to rotate the 'throttle wheel' on the side of the stock Hitachi carburetor and it won't budge. Sprayed some liquid wrench around the throttle shaft but I'd guess that i may be seized within the carb body as it passes through to the butterfly/intake? Any ideas/thoughts? I've not had a chance to look since applying some of the liquid wrench (due to the weather and work) but I thought i'd ask everyone here... It feels like the throttle wheel is mechanically stuck and doesn't budge a bit! * The car had run hot the last time it ran because the cooling fans had a short, so that may have contributed to this issue, and I also remember the idle being HIGHER than normal as I moved it a few blocks to it's current resting space.. It's beginning so sound bad already... isn't it.. but hey, hopefully, it's just another crappy Hitachi Carb quirk.. (the ole sticky throttle shaft!!) I've searched the forum but haven't found anything like this, yet. thanks in advance!! gadberry