Throttle Body cleaning help/advice

loud · Post by **loud** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:33 pm

lol fuel injection = no carbs

yea u dont put much in.

also some people have damaged their lambda probe cleaning the throttle body so be careful with that

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:01 pm

cleaned it this afternoon, piece of cake!! same response as everyone else has been getting, cheers guys

Rupy · Post by **Rupy** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:20 pm

Tim_GTi wrote:cleaned it this afternoon, piece of cake!! same response as everyone else has been getting, cheers guys

So i take it you cleaned the body itself first with engine off, then proceeded to spray it in with someone revving the car??

Do you guys finish the can off??

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:21 pm

Rupy wrote:
Tim_GTi wrote:cleaned it this afternoon, piece of cake!! same response as everyone else has been getting, cheers guys
So i take it you cleaned the body itself first with engine off, then proceeded to spray it in with someone revving the car??

Do you guys finish the can off??

yep, nah i put very little of the can in there, it was a pretty big can!!!

Rupy · Post by **Rupy** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:33 pm

Cool.

Yeah the can is massive...

I bought some from halfrauds today...but the ducting they had for a cold feed for my BMC was silver...so not gonna do the throttle body clean till i get some black tubing.

A pic of the can i just took...

Mouse_GTI · Post by **Mouse_GTI** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:39 pm

Exact same stuff I got

Arnoldo · Post by **Arnoldo** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:30 pm

Make sure the car is running when ur doin it. It burns it off, you wont have problems with sensors(correct me if im wrong) and you wont flood the engine

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:54 pm

Arnoldo wrote:Make sure the car is running when ur doin it. It burns it off, you wont have problems with sensors(correct me if im wrong) and you wont flood the engine

thats exactly what i was thinking when i did mine, other people MAY disagree tho!

Rupy · Post by **Rupy** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:00 pm

Everyone seems to have their own methods!

My plan is to

1) remove the carbon filter
2) Spray cleaner onto a cloth and wipe out the chamber...make it nice and shiney
3) Start the car and get my mate to rev is and i;ll spray it into the guts
4) replace everything

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:39 pm

Rupy wrote:Everyone seems to have their own methods!

My plan is to

1) remove the carbon filter
2) Spray cleaner onto a cloth and wipe out the chamber...make it nice and shiney
3) Start the car and get my mate to rev is and i;ll spray it into the guts
4) replace everything

Exactly what i did

Mouse_GTI · Post by **Mouse_GTI** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:07 pm

As did I, though you only need to take off the connecting pipe. The rest of the BMC can stay. I got my Dad to rev it on and off for a couple of minutes giving it quick blasts

Rupy · Post by **Rupy** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:41 pm

Doing a cold feed too so may take the filter out for a clean too

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:42 am

my cars dying for a BMC!