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87' 740 turbo accelerator stuck & other problems...

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hi all,
this is my first post here, i am not very familiar with volvos but have spent alot of time under the hood of vw's so hopefully there are a few similarities with fuel systems...anyway, here's the peoblem:
my girlfreind's volvo seems so have a problem where the accelerator sticks and when i try to stop the car, it, of course, stalls. i never thought that the problem could have been a stuck accelerator but after a stall and a half hour of screwing around i finially got the car to start and it would not go below 3k rpm. i got the car a couple of blocks and parked it but there was no way i was getting it back to my house without killing the transmission.
today i went to the car and started it, it started but ran "skippy" (if that is a valid description) as if it were only firing on one or two cylinders, and with every fire came a succsessive puff of black smoke out of the exhaust. while i was looking at the exhaust the car stalled and i could not get it started again so i came back here and typed this.
it should be mentioned that the car is basically a "beater" but i do try to keep it running well. the last time i had a problem with it, it stalled on the NJTP and the problem was a bunch of bare wires around the intake manifold, i taped them up individually and hadn't been having so many problems until now, but looking back, it seems like the stall i had then happened similarly so maybe it is one of these wires being screwed up that are flooding the engine with gas. anyone who can offer advise i would really appreciate it.
-andrew
PS-the accelerator is not physically stuck in any way and the cable and linkage on the intake manifold appear to be working correctly.
 
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