How-to: Cleaning Throttle Body?
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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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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
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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.
Originally Posted by porksoda
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 That seems like a lot of work, to take the whole TB off to clean it. Especially if the coolant lines are still connected. I'm planning on using the deep creep on mine, I'll see how that goes first.
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.
Originally Posted by staringback05
THATS why the tb bypass is good....just makes it easier to take the tb off...if you feel its to much work to take a tb off to clean it and make your car run better....give me your car
