Heat marks on throttle body snorkel
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I met up with Davids2Toys today at an awesome Mustang car show at Moroso's headquarters in Guilford CT, and had a heck of a time looking at all kinds of show-quality Stangs.
But while there I was showing Dave under the hood of my '05 GT, how the rubber snorkel connected to the throttle bodies has bluish marks on it, like it had some kind of heat problem. My car was delivered on Mar 21 and has 3000 miles, and no real problems, but looking at Dave's engine and the other '05s at the show, none really had the bluish marks that mine has.
Here are some pictures of the snorkel. After taking the pics, I used Mother's "Back to Black" on it, and it cleaned up, so maybe it's no big deal? What do you all think?
But while there I was showing Dave under the hood of my '05 GT, how the rubber snorkel connected to the throttle bodies has bluish marks on it, like it had some kind of heat problem. My car was delivered on Mar 21 and has 3000 miles, and no real problems, but looking at Dave's engine and the other '05s at the show, none really had the bluish marks that mine has.
Here are some pictures of the snorkel. After taking the pics, I used Mother's "Back to Black" on it, and it cleaned up, so maybe it's no big deal? What do you all think?
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It does get hot under that hood. You have a tube made of latex and petrochemicals. Stands to reason that it would leach out some of chemicals. My question would be how the heat would effect the Back to Black stuff. I use it on my black stuff under the hood and I will get a slight frosting effect from the B2B product. Mind you that I have a C&L CAI, so the rubber hoses are the only pliable stuff that I use it on.
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Originally posted by This one's mine@July 25, 2005, 5:28 PM
Mine looked like that when I picked it up at the dealership! It had 2.1 miles on it then! I just cleaned it the way I clean everything else and it hasn't come back.
Mine looked like that when I picked it up at the dealership! It had 2.1 miles on it then! I just cleaned it the way I clean everything else and it hasn't come back.
#15
A little simple green and a rinse. Then with a microfiber wet with formula 2001 I wiped it down. A lot of black transfers to the towel so make sure you never want to use it for anything other than under the hood.
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Originally posted by wjones14@July 24, 2005, 4:40 PM
I met up with Davids2Toys today at an awesome Mustang car show at Moroso's headquarters in Guilford CT, and had a heck of a time looking at all kinds of show-quality Stangs.
But while there I was showing Dave under the hood of my '05 GT, how the rubber snorkel connected to the throttle bodies has bluish marks on it, like it had some kind of heat problem. My car was delivered on Mar 21 and has 3000 miles, and no real problems, but looking at Dave's engine and the other '05s at the show, none really had the bluish marks that mine has.
Here are some pictures of the snorkel. After taking the pics, I used Mother's "Back to Black" on it, and it cleaned up, so maybe it's no big deal? What do you all think?
I met up with Davids2Toys today at an awesome Mustang car show at Moroso's headquarters in Guilford CT, and had a heck of a time looking at all kinds of show-quality Stangs.
But while there I was showing Dave under the hood of my '05 GT, how the rubber snorkel connected to the throttle bodies has bluish marks on it, like it had some kind of heat problem. My car was delivered on Mar 21 and has 3000 miles, and no real problems, but looking at Dave's engine and the other '05s at the show, none really had the bluish marks that mine has.
Here are some pictures of the snorkel. After taking the pics, I used Mother's "Back to Black" on it, and it cleaned up, so maybe it's no big deal? What do you all think?
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Originally posted by This one's mine@July 25, 2005, 5:28 PM
Mine looked like that when I picked it up at the dealership! It had 2.1 miles on it then! I just cleaned it the way I clean everything else and it hasn't come back.
Mine looked like that when I picked it up at the dealership! It had 2.1 miles on it then! I just cleaned it the way I clean everything else and it hasn't come back.
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