My best friend and I were cleaning up under our respective hoods today just for ****s and giggles, when I decided "hey, why not just give my throttle body a good cleaning???" I took off that big hunk of ABS plastic intake piping between my MAF and that little rubber elbow and noticed something quite odd. My TB was FILLED with oil!!! I searched and found nothing on it. Can someone please tell me whats going on???

 

Ok after talking to Aaron for a little bit he told me to post a bit more of the symptoms...

He said there is supposed to be a little bit of oil in the TB, but VERY little, a few drops at most. Before i cleaned it, there was a puddle of oil approximately the size of a quarter that had pooled in that elbow portion of the TB. There was oil smeared everywhere, and quite a bit of oil had pooled in the ridges in the rubber joint between the TB and intake piping.

 

are you using any oiled air filters? could be the oil coming off of the filter and your throttle body is stopping it, and it collects.

 

No, I just use a regular Fram filter. And this isn't any other type of oil. This is motor oil.

 

change your PCV valve and see if that helps... often that's what causes the oil to collect in the intake like that, as there's pressure in your valve covers (from blow-by around the piston rings pressurizing the crankcase).. the PCV valve is made to vent that gunk back into the intake manifold and burn it in the engine. problems when that thing clogs are that the pressure builds up and has to go somewhere else. it then gets sucked into the intake tract through the ~3/4" hoses you see on the black tube going back to the engine.

 

Ok.... I'll look into that. I've got a million and one things I'm replacing anyways. Also, just wondering, on the VG, at the very bottom of the bay, right on top of the trans next to the rear motor mount there is a connector of some sort. What does it do? Is it healthy having it disconnected? Because that's the way it was when I found it yesterday, I figured I was better off connecting it.