Thottle body need cleaned????
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From: New Carlisle, Ohio (20 miles north of Dayton)
Over oiling can be a problem. I THINK I have this licked currently. I have two filters, so I can swap out the clean/oiled one for the dirty one and get back on the road quickly and then clean the dirty one when I have the time and/or desire.
After cleaning and drying it, I oil it a bit heavier than normal. Then, I wrap it loosly with about three layers of paper towels and stuff it inside a Food Saver vacuum bag. Then it gets vacuumed down enough to pull the paper towels snugly against the filter (without crushing it! This IS a vacuum, so...) and then heat seal it and leave alone until it is needed.
The paper towels wick out the extra oil while it sits on the shelf and because it is totally sealed in the vacuum bag, I can leave the oiled filter sitting out on the shelf in the garage with the other parts and I don't have to worry about it getting dirty. And because the paper towels will wick off any excess oil, when I do take it out of the bag, it is perfectly oiled and ready to go.
As for cleaning the MAF, I just used a can of MAF cleaner to spray off all the crud on the resistor elements. Give it a good spray to blast off the loose stuff then let it sit for 5 minutes or so. Then hit it again and the rest of the gunk should come off leaving a nice, clean MAF element ready to be reinserted in the CAI.
After cleaning and drying it, I oil it a bit heavier than normal. Then, I wrap it loosly with about three layers of paper towels and stuff it inside a Food Saver vacuum bag. Then it gets vacuumed down enough to pull the paper towels snugly against the filter (without crushing it! This IS a vacuum, so...) and then heat seal it and leave alone until it is needed.
The paper towels wick out the extra oil while it sits on the shelf and because it is totally sealed in the vacuum bag, I can leave the oiled filter sitting out on the shelf in the garage with the other parts and I don't have to worry about it getting dirty. And because the paper towels will wick off any excess oil, when I do take it out of the bag, it is perfectly oiled and ready to go.
As for cleaning the MAF, I just used a can of MAF cleaner to spray off all the crud on the resistor elements. Give it a good spray to blast off the loose stuff then let it sit for 5 minutes or so. Then hit it again and the rest of the gunk should come off leaving a nice, clean MAF element ready to be reinserted in the CAI.
That is a good process and I will do that the next time I clean my filter. I checked and cleaned the MAF housing and checked the screws on the MAF sensor for tightness and everything looked fine to me. The car drove fine today both ways. But I can't say for sure cleaning the TB fixed my issue since when I restarted the car yesterday everything was just fine. Maybe Tom is right about it just one of those computer things that none of us will ever understand.
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Here's another computer thing for ya- on the way home the other day, my trunk open alert came on three times- but the trunk was completely closed. That's never happened before, hasn't happened since. And don't get me started on the camshaft position sensor code, that's a screwy thing too.
Maybe your tbody or MAF was the culprit, but either way if your problem goes away you won't really know if it was a gremlin or the other I guess.
Maybe your tbody or MAF was the culprit, but either way if your problem goes away you won't really know if it was a gremlin or the other I guess.
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Hey Jeff,
Got 2 cans of Vavoline TB cleaner for $5 bucks tonight at Autozone.( some kind of special) Took about 30 minutes to do the cleaning and that was dealing with the CDC shaker. Not sure if it will cure my problem but it was easy to do. I suggest you give it a shot.
Scott
Got 2 cans of Vavoline TB cleaner for $5 bucks tonight at Autozone.( some kind of special) Took about 30 minutes to do the cleaning and that was dealing with the CDC shaker. Not sure if it will cure my problem but it was easy to do. I suggest you give it a shot.
Scott
BTW, you still liking those longtubes?
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Hey Scott, I did pick some TB Cleaner a while ago, as well at MAF Sensor Cleaner. Haven't had the time to do it yet. I may do it Sunday, or wait till after the two shows I am going to Monday to clean it. Thanks for the heads up in regards to how long it shold take.
BTW, you still liking those longtubes?
BTW, you still liking those longtubes?
Yes I am in love with the longtubes and the way my exhaust sounds now. At least that project is complete finally.
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Contaminated MAF sensor wires will not cause the throttle to stop responding. The MAF is important, but it is mainly used for AF calculations and shifting (for automatics). It may idle rough, but your throttle should still function. I recall a number of S197 owners reporting TB faults for 05-06 MY.
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