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the manual throttle allow you to set a high idle when the engine is cold

I'd clean & re-grease the hand brake parts & also use a light to look around inside the tunnel for rust, dead bodies of small creatures, live gremlins and buried treasure while it is opened up.

if the seat(s) were removed, check the bolt threads & wrenching features before re-installation; and address any sound deadening removal, stereo installs etc. you may want to do

there are several other threads on this topic - if you search and find them you might want to link them all together for the next person passing this way in the future