i just finished cleaning my TB, and when i was putting my weapon-r intake back on i accidently broke the sensor inside the intake behind the cone. that big black sensor, i think its called the MAF sensor right? anyways, once i put everything back together, and yturned on the car, the engine is really struggling to stay alive, there is more smoke than normal coming out of the exhaust and i can really smell it too. is this happening because i broke that sensor, or did i do something wrong when i cleaned the TB (i used the instrucitons from the how to section) or is this normal right after you clean the TB?

 

Its most likely your MAF sensor. I have accidently left mine off and they car will stall if you give it gas. You are gonna be pretty much stuck until you can get that fixed.

 

Fixed? Get out your checkbook and prepare to faint. Unless you get a used one at a junkyard or here on the ORG you'll be paying $400+ at a dealer. How exactly did you break it, what place?

 

mine never smoked...but the struggling thing thats a sign of a bad mafs..good luck

 

i broke the little white piece of plastic that is the actual sensor inside the tube.

 

Wow, how the hell did you do that? You need a new MAF man. Go on EBAY now, they have a few.

 

ya i just found one on ebay starting at $0.99.

lets just say i broke it out of stupidity.

 

Were you poking it with a stick?

 

hahaha

no, you know that second sensor that goes in the intake? well when i pulled the intake appart, i didnt take notice as to where it went, and i thought that it was suppose to connect to the sensor inside the tube, well after i broke it i realized it was originally just dangling in there.

let the flaming begin

 

how bad (if at all) is it to drive without your MAF sensor conected? can i drive it for a few days without the MAF plugged in?

 

if the ebay one goes above 40 let me know ill sell you my spare MAF.

 

thanks a lot, ill let you know.

 

Don't drive without it. It'll do more bad than good and you might end up causing even more damage. Your engine doesn't know how much air is going into your engine so it might give too much or too little fuel or just turn off all together.

 

ya i just took it for a short drive down teh street before i realized that it was undriveable (short drive means like 5 feet). luckily imlikewoe sold me his spare one and is going to overnight it to me so i will only be without a car for a couple of days.