Can I reinstall a screen on my MAF? Or new/used one?
05-20-2007, 09:10 PM
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Can I reinstall a screen on my MAF? Or new/used one? Can I just buy a maf screen from gm and push it back in or am I stuck buying a whole new maf? Reason I ask is because the chick who had the car before me removed it.
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I was wondering about this also. Mine is descreened and I am getting ping under high load (3rd gear and up) and high rpm. I have read that descreening can lean the air/fuel mixture out causing this sort of problem. A tune could probably fix it, but couldn't rescreening it fix it also?
I have looked other places to try and diagnose this problem so dont think I am JUST pointing a finger at descreening. This information I have read may be false.
I have looked other places to try and diagnose this problem so dont think I am JUST pointing a finger at descreening. This information I have read may be false.
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Originally Posted by orangeapeel
lol, the only way I see it working is with a larger screen and a ruber band. Like a jar with fire flies in it and wax paper over the top. HAHAHAHA
So I don't think so.
So I don't think so.
LOL!!!!!!!!!
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I removed the screen off an F-body MAF cleanly
by soaking the front end (removed) face-down
in a dish of paint stripper overnight. Practically
fell out. You could put one in with a little ring of
JB-Weld no problem.
Since the ends swap with just a Torx driver, get
a junkyard one and put the unmolested ends on
if that's what you want; you have the known-
good electrical piece already so junk is fine.
If the chick removed the screen maybe she also
did a little "porting", which would be the bad thing.
Descreened-only, with any fairly straight neck lid,
is a non-problem for F-bodies. Not so for trucks or
'vettes with bent intake plumbing.
by soaking the front end (removed) face-down
in a dish of paint stripper overnight. Practically
fell out. You could put one in with a little ring of
JB-Weld no problem.
Since the ends swap with just a Torx driver, get
a junkyard one and put the unmolested ends on
if that's what you want; you have the known-
good electrical piece already so junk is fine.
If the chick removed the screen maybe she also
did a little "porting", which would be the bad thing.
Descreened-only, with any fairly straight neck lid,
is a non-problem for F-bodies. Not so for trucks or
'vettes with bent intake plumbing.
05-22-2007, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Fire-formula 93
I was wondering about this also. Mine is descreened and I am getting ping under high load (3rd gear and up) and high rpm. I have read that descreening can lean the air/fuel mixture out causing this sort of problem. A tune could probably fix it, but couldn't rescreening it fix it also?
I have looked other places to try and diagnose this problem so dont think I am JUST pointing a finger at descreening. This information I have read may be false.
I have looked other places to try and diagnose this problem so dont think I am JUST pointing a finger at descreening. This information I have read may be false.
