Remember, there's two plates. The big plate is the potentiometer or air flow meter. The smaller plate below is the throttle plate, and is what actually controls how much *air* is allowed into the engine. If you're doing the ether trick, you need to remove the fuel pump relay, and push down the potentiometer and spray it directly at the throttle.

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