Throttlebody cleaning

moonwell · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject: Throttlebody cleaning

Discussion relating to the following How-to:
http://www.v6z24.com/howto/throttlebody

eddiesz24 · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject:

I hear that brake parts cleaner work's well cleaning it up

Brad91Z · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that works well too.

Brad

dirksz24 · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

is this the same for a ph 1?

moonwell · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:53 am Post subject:

redeyedtreefr0g · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:58 am Post subject:

I suggested this a couple times to my fiance when the car surged, and finally he agreed to look over the printout of the procedure last night after getting the power steering all put back together.

He says there is no throttlebody, since this is fuel injected, and what he doesn't understand is how carbon could build up in the thing he called a mass air something.

After the three days the car was sitting in the shop, all the cursing, and such, I've decided that to help him not hate my car so much, I'll be taking it somewhere to be worked on from now on, or doing it with my dad. He was a mechanic and is very patient, and I can actually help instead of just watch, maybe.

But, I just wondered why both him and his grandfather wouldn't agree with this procedure when others on this forum do. His grandfather had been a mechanic since he was old enough to work, so I'm a little bit confused, not knowing very much about cars at all.

cobra17st · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

pezed · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

All fuel injected engines have a throttle body. it is what controls the air flow into the engine.

redeyedtreefr0g · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

Alright, can this be done in a parking lot? I wondered about how much time it takes. I could possibly do this with my dad, but I'm not sure when he comes to town again, he's a semi driver.

It feels good to work on my own car, and I enjoyed fixing the leak the the front passenger floorboard. I just don't know a whole lot about cars, and watching them work and curse doesn't really teach me anything.

cobra17st · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:17 am Post subject:

redeyedtreefr0g · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

Cool, thank you

megatrends · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 2:15 am Post subject:

Thanks for posting this, I am all over this. Looks pretty simple to do and the benefit seems pretty obvious.

megatrends · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject:

I did mine earlier this evening, it was carboned but didn;t look horrific by any means. I mean there was junk and stuff and i cleaned it all up per instruction in this posted how-to.

Thanks a lot for posting this as it really helped. I would have never even thought to do this myself before reading how to.

It was very simple to do using cue tips, an old toothbrush and some cleaning rags.

I used carb and choke cleaner and it dissolved the carbon junk almost instantly.

I also checked the IAC valve I had just installed to make sure the pintle measured 1-1/8" from the face like the specs says it should.

One note I would like to make is to be sure not to damage the gaskets. The IAC holder piece after removing the 5 screws has a gasket attached to it as does the back of the throttle body which that one was mentioned in the posted how-to thankfully.

I cracked a very small section of the IAC cover and was worried about it until I took BigZ for a test spin where I could open it up to about 70mph.

I also did an idle relearn when I was done before going for the test drive.

I was impressed with how much power returned and leaving a parking lot laid a patch of about 15 feet of burnout from a dead stop not power braking but right from a dead stop throttle only.

The pickup increase was noticable.

I also had sprayed some carb and choke cleaner into the EGR valve and worked it by hand a bit. I am still going to take that off and clean it probably this week.

Also I would like to mention that before doing this if I would change my interior air/heater controls setting my idle would change and on vent or heater sometimes would act like it wanted to stall. On the AC settings it ran like it should.

Well now that stuff is fixed just by doing this procedure, I am not sure why but it has stopped doing it so I am happy about that.

Basically thanks V6z24 once again for helping us out and helping to keep up a good running clean machine.

*cheers*

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