Throttle body and intake cleaning
This past weekend while I was at POS World HQ I decided to clean my throttle body and intake. I bought a can of intake cleaner (I read somewhere that regular carb cleaner should *not* be used for this purpose) and went to town.
It's an easy job. There are 3 screws and (1) 10mm bolt to remove and you're in (at least on the 'vintage' models). I even did the POS racer while POS the driver was under the hood of his boat! ('67 Caddy)
I had a slight 'stumble' in the idle and every so often I would get an idle drop when I came to a quick stop. All those symptoms are now gone and it's idling like new! Haven't experienced any idle drops either! This will probably knock 3-4 seconds off of my AX runs!
Jon W and I did this a while back with our '99s, but we removed the upper intake manifold to facilitate the process. You'd be amazed by how much gunk we cleaned off.
Unfotunately, it's a little more involved to remove the upper half of the intake manifold, but we still managed to do mine in a little over an hour from start to finish. We also used liberal amounts of intake cleaner (about two cans each), and a wire brush to get some of the more stubborn gunk off.
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
Note to self: Next Tech Day, bring two cans of intake cleaner and a wire brush. Then have altiain show me how to clean my TB.
I'm definitely having the "idle drop at stop" syndrom... I'm sure my TBs could use a little TLC.
"That which does not kill us, just makes us madder"
Cletus Nietzsche (Friedrich's half-brother on his sister's side)
I'm in on that one.....Originally Posted by Kestrel
And I work for cheap, too... :P
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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