Fuel stavation & sticking throttle

[Terry Williams]

I recently bought my first Escort, '96 1.8 Ghia with just 27k miles. Everything works as I would expect but it has an intermittent fault of fuel starvation when cruising at a steady mid-speed. It doesn't happen during acceleration and not so often cruising at motorway speeds. It's just a second or two (an annoying jerk) then normality returns. It only cost 600 so I'm loathe to approach a main dealer and get ripped off, I took it to a back street garage but he couldn't find any problem.

The throttle will occasionally stick and keep high revs when I'm changing gear or when I lift off the throttle for engine braking, again no solution found.

A suggestion was made that both problems are probably related to something electronic. Any advice would be appreciated.

[ScORTED]

things to test, vss, iscv, ignition and maf

[JC]

sticking High revs sounds like a vacuum hose collapsed? or an issue breathing

 

I'd check the little valve on the front right of the engine is not blocked and also the vacuum pipe that goes to the back of the inlet manifold that goes through 90 degrees is not destroyed

[Ahmotorsport]

I'm gonna start simple, is the throttle cable frayed?

[Terry Williams]

Thank you all for your help. I'm abroad right now but will follow your suggestions when I return home.