More updates: I THINK I FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM (still working on fixing it, but maybe you'll all have some good insights on that)
After dinking around with some connections today it was apparent that the hand throttle on the left hand side of my steering wheel was out of alignment. We moved it back into place by hand and then the bus started up, RPMs were in a normal range in neutral(aprox 800) and stayed there.
I finally took it on a test drive around the block and everything started out pretty normal. However, after just a couple hundred yards my bus started to try to accelerate even when my foot was not on the accelerator.
Didn't matter what gear I put the bus into, this continued to be a problem.
Got back to the house, put it back in neutral where the RPMs were, again, in the 2,000 range.
We opened up the engine tunnel and re positioned the idle lever by hand and it went back to normal .
So, it certainly has something to do with the hand throttle and at this point it seems to be the ONLY thing that changes the way the bus functions.
Might be a matter of bad/tired springs or something bumping it out of place. Thoughts would be appreciated otherwise I'll continue to tinker.
Thanks!
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