How-to: Cleaning Throttle Body?
05-16-2007, 03:32 PM
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How-to: Cleaning Throttle Body? Howdy! Whats the best way that y'all have found to clean the throttle body?
I was cleaning up my MAF today and was thinking about just pulling off the throttle body and using rags/microfiber towels and some WD40 or leftover MAF Cleaner Spray on the TB.
Thanks -Karl
I was cleaning up my MAF today and was thinking about just pulling off the throttle body and using rags/microfiber towels and some WD40 or leftover MAF Cleaner Spray on the TB.
Thanks -Karl
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05-16-2007, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by staringback05
just a bottle of carb cleaner and whipe it down....works fine and you dont have to have some name brand stuff
05-16-2007, 11:33 PM
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I used carb cleaner once and it left some gross stuff behind. I took off the TB and everything was covered in a brown foamy liquid. Looked like coffee with cream inside my TB. My point is to use an actual spray meant for cleaning TB's like deep creep.
05-19-2007, 05:39 AM
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I used carb cleaner once and it left some gross stuff behind. I took off the TB and everything was covered in a brown foamy liquid. Looked like coffee with cream inside my TB. My point is to use an actual spray meant for cleaning TB's like deep creep.
did you actually whipe it down? did you actually take the TB off? pshhh to many people just spray some **** and hope it works...when i use TB/carb cleaner.....same thing.....i take the TB off spray on and whipe down....nothing ever gets left behind
05-19-2007, 10:42 AM
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Spraying into the TB while still on car may work to get some crud off but there are passages for the IAC that usually get gunked up that you won't be able to clean unless you remove the TB and take all the sensors off.
05-19-2007, 11:35 AM
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why would it be that hard to take it off anyway? don't you just turn the car off and disconnect the couple of sensors and pull the tb off?
05-20-2007, 11:22 AM
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carb cleaner and a brush is what i use at work and ive seen some so built up that it comes in clumps off the brush takes 2 cans sometimes (then try to start it)
