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Old Dec 19, 2006 | 01:13 PM
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Carb cleaner and fule inj cleaner

Have a question for ya'll. I have some carb cleaner and the fuel inj cleaner. The Fuel cleaner states put it in an empty tank. Will there be a noticalbe difference in performance or fuel mileage on an 03 that has 40000 miles? I was also gonna use the carb cleaner t oclean the soot that builds up in the throttle body. Has anyone done this and any noticealbe difference?
Old Dec 19, 2006 | 01:25 PM
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no... do the seafoam treatment.
Old Dec 19, 2006 | 04:52 PM
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whats that
Old Dec 20, 2006 | 01:16 PM
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please explain seafoam
Old Dec 20, 2006 | 01:49 PM
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Old Dec 20, 2006 | 02:27 PM
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just so you know, after you clean the throttle body, your gonna have to do idle air volume learn
Old Dec 20, 2006 | 03:21 PM
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depends on what fuel injector cleaner you use. IMO, the only thing that works is BG44K. you wont be able to tell the diffirence with cheap crap.

+1 on the seafoam. i have a write-up in the fluids section.

you really need to do all three to get all the dirt and carbon cleaned out
injector cleaner - fuel lines and injectors
carb cleaner - throttle body
seafoam - intake manifold
Old Dec 20, 2006 | 06:03 PM
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Thanks for the info.

Ive used, and like the BG44K product alot
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