just got done cleaning my TB and was wondering how everyone else did it. i just sprayed TB cleaner and took lintless shop towels and wiped all the carbon crap out i could. i kept spraying until it was all clean coming out and had no more carbon in it. anyone else do the same or something different?

i also added that engine restore crap....just tried it out and gonna wait and see. it said i would see an improvement by 500 miles so ill wait and see then. anyone else use this stuff? thanks

 

Restore is junk. Should NOT have put that in.

 

i need to do this as well while my intake is off, need some lintfree towels though, and tb cleaner, lol , i have nothing but desire !

 

seriously?...... ****

 

i never belive in that crap adding to you your car newer works is like put some greese on your hands and try to rinse them with water you need put some on them and really scrub it of same thing with those addons to your car if you really want to clean some thing out you have to take it off and clean for real
just my 5 cents

 

huh???????

 

exactly what i said. the weirdest is the whole 5 cents thing. anyway. i believe in chevron techron for cleanin out the fuel system. Got about 60 more miles to the tank, and thats even under hard driving. Seafoam has it's own controversial section. Give Chevron techron a try, if it can't help, it can't hurt either.

 

not necessarily true

 

english dude....puncuation...seriously

 

not necessarily, but in the case of techron, it IS just the additive they use in their fuels. so there can't be much harm done if thousands of people are already driving around with this fluid in their engines, simply by filling up at a chevron.

 

what about this restore crap?

 

Why did you put Restore in your maxima? Does your engine have high miles with low compression readings?

The Maxima engine is one of the best built car engines in the world. I have Maxima's with 200,000+ miles that do not burn any oil or have any blowby problems. If your engine has normal compression readings, no need to use Restore.

 

110000 on a 99

 

Just barely past the breakin miles.

 

I tryed to clean my throttle body....yeah...jeeps are so much easier...there are like 59379327 hoses connected to my throttle body, I couldnt get one of them off which kept me from taking it out...and another hose started dripping green shiz..(antifreez?)....but hey, its cleaner now then it was b4.

 

No need to worry here, it shouldn't do any harm , but just to be on the safe side - go and change your oil tomorrow !!!


I drove 95 max 5 speed with 365K on it, the engine run perfect and it didn't need any additives.

Nick.

 

seriously change the oil?

 

yes, change oil , and than few days later change it again


Nick.

 

can't be that harmful/harmful at all

 

365,000 !??!? That's almost as ridiculous as that classic SE-R with 451,000 on the clock.

 

365K, and me and Pat dropped it on wepon r coilovers !!!

Nick.

 

getting back to throttle body...how deep should we try to clean?

 

i did mien today and really scrubbed it with a tooth brush and lots of carb cleaner, i also opened up the butterfly valve and brushed up on top cuz its easy to miss. there was so much muck.

 

I wanted to do mine so bad, but I had so many probs along the way. Hood struts acting up and I couldn't take off the the accordion looking thing or the midpipe. It was on so damn tight. Anybody had probs with this?

 

take off the entire air intake system....

takes like 2 secs if u just look for where its all connected to car

 

damn dude why is it so bad?

 

I cleaned my TB yesterday and now I have a "Engine service soon" Light on! I don't know what I did wrong, I disconected the battery , then this morning when I conected the batery the light still there!

 

well I followed all the directions with the writeup on motorvate. The thing is the connect of the accordion thing to the throttle body is so freakin tight. I loosened the coupler and still didnt help. Have this happened to anybody else?

 

Chula Vista, not too far from me (ok, maybe 2hr drive, haha).

What's the code from the SES light?

Jae

 

hummmm... don't know, tomorrow I'm gping to Autozone and check my codes for free after that I'll post theme here.
-Jose

 

you mean the ECU codes? they check it for you for free?

 

yea they check it for you for free. i dun think they tell u what the code means.

 

Yeah, they let you borrow the OBD II machine, you only need an ID an that's it. I have done that before.

 

so then what do they actually check?

 

btw is this at the shops from autozone? or the actual store?

 

Yeah i didnt know how to check the ECU codes before this. Where does the machine hook up to? And all you have to bring is an i.d. or something?

-Thak-

 

It just gives you the code, that's it. Bring that code on here, look in stickys, and bing, you have your answer.

 

Take the entire throttlebody off. Spray some carb cleaner in there and scrub thoroughly. This still will not get everything around the butterfly valve off. You need to take either the green part of a dishwashing sponge or very fine grit sandpapaer and scrub the throttle body with it. This is the only way to get the throttle body back to factory condition, especially with many miles on the car.

Also, you all may want to be checking out SeaFoam for engine cleaning. There are three applications: crankcase (oil), gas tank, and the intake manifold.

You all need to understand though, by cleaning the throttle body, which is about a tenth of the intake system, you MAY notice better response and idle, but def. no horsepower releases. The bes bet is a port and polish, which can be cheap if your cover is already over.

Also, I never threw any codes after doing all of the above stated.

 

I used my old teeth brush to clean inside the TB , Also I cleaned the TB'S from my brother's Z and the Check engine light didn't turn on

 

The store, Just go inside the store and ask the guy for an OBDII Scanner, and theay ask your forn an ID and that's it