Maybe some of you remember my thread entitled "my neverending problems" where for weeks I tried to figure out why my car was so messed up. I poured over $200 into a local mechanic who told me he has no idea after looking at my car for a week, and wanted more money to continue to atempt diagnostics. Well here is the update. Anyway, after all this, I was able to get the car up to St. Louis, and my mechanic was able to fix it. All that was wrong was debree on the MAF sensor that needed to be cleaned off, as well as cleaning up a few other connections (but the MAF sensor was causing the main problem). Nothing replaced, everything still the same, and only $40 bucks spent. At least my car runs again

 

Do you know what he cleaned it with?

 

nice and can u tell us what he cleaned it with???

 

i own/work a mechanic shop and when i clean any sensor i use brake cleaner by gunk. good stuff strong as hell and evaporates rather quickly.

 

good 2 know

 

WRONG!
do not use brake cleaner on them...

You can get electronics cleaner from any electronics hobby shop like Radio Shack or Fry's... it's much safer on the electronics on it.

 

those electronic cleaners are pretty cheap

 

I don't use it on electronics, but that GUNK brake cleaner comes out in buckets. I prefer the Valvoline SynPower brake cleaner. It is much more precise and gets crap off just as well. I also use that brand of TB cleaner and my TB is usually very shiny inside.