DIY: Clean your throttle bodies
Technically, you're right, but you really can't clean it completely without removing it from the car. I don't see the point in doing a half-azzed job on it when it's so simple to do the idle position re-learn.
@buckeye, you can clean them to perfection while installed on the car as outlined in the DIY if you take your time and maintain patience there is MORE than enough space to do this.
A half azzed job would be to clean the TB without removing the 4 allen bolts and cleaning from the back (no offense Defratos 
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However, as long as you take off the TB then you have all the space you need to clean the entire thing as well as the plenum itself. We're not trying to polish the thing, just taking off the carbon build up.
)However, as long as you take off the TB then you have all the space you need to clean the entire thing as well as the plenum itself. We're not trying to polish the thing, just taking off the carbon build up.
I've done TB and MAF cleaning this weekend and now I got check engine light.
I'm gonna blame it on a TB gasket and get a new one.
Car drives fine tho and accelerates fine.........idles a little high tho (1.5k)
I'm gonna blame it on a TB gasket and get a new one.
Car drives fine tho and accelerates fine.........idles a little high tho (1.5k)
I'm just not sure what the advantage is of doing it that way. Yes, you don't have to do the idle re-learn, but it's so simple to do, I would think the extra hassle of trying to clean it while it's still attached just wouldn't be worth it. It's far easier to get it perfectly clean if you remove it completely, and the idle re-learn takes almost no time at all. I know that's how I'll do it whenever I clean it.
That will go away fairly quickly, maybe a few days. It's still learning. My cars have always had a few days of high idle after a good TB cleaning.
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just out of curiosity how did you go about cleaning your MAF? because it's pretty sensitive
+1 on that, as i said before, take the car for a spin, and do some WOT, and it'll go.
let it dry, and put it back on.
There's Mass Airflow Sensor spray out there. I have some made by CRC. http://www.crcindustries.com/auto/co....aspx?PN=05110 Most decent auto parts stores will have something.
