HELP - 35d Throttle body clicking, okay to drive disconnected?

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So my wife called early in the day saying the car was shuttering when shutdown. I'd experienced this once or twice, but nothing consistent previously. Did some brief searches, and it seemed like the throttle body was the obvious culprit.

Later she called and said there is a loud clicking noise coming from under the hood, even after the car is shutdown and locked up.

When she got home, I found the throttle body shaft (with the spring wound around it), pulsating and making the loud clicking noise. Even after she shut it down, it was pulsating like it was stuck and trying to turn.

Eventually disconnected the wiring harness from the throttle body to stop it. Other than the shutter on shut down, it seems to start and run fine otherwise.

I'm surprised it runs with this disconnected? Is it doing any damage to drive it this way short term, till I can get the part and replace it?