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Old 02-24-2002, 10:06 AM
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Whats wrong W/my car?
regular highway driving the other night i accelerated to get passed a slower car and my max revved really high reached like 6k rpms and then dropped really low to almost zero then went back to about 1k any ideas? it happened again this morning...
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Old 02-24-2002, 10:08 AM
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clean the throttle body maybe?
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Old 02-24-2002, 10:10 AM
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someone suggested that to me beofre..is it hard to do? do i have to take anything apart? never attepted to do that before..
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Old 02-24-2002, 10:31 AM
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Throttle Body Clean
Follow the instructions in

http://www.motorvate.ca/

On your left side, click on "Engine" and then "Throttle Body Clean". Make sure you also use Valvoline SynPower Throttle Body Cleaner. It works really nice.
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Old 02-24-2002, 10:53 AM
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sweet write-up!!! thanks a bunch i'll try giving the throttle body the once over...
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Old 02-24-2002, 11:05 AM
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Re: Throttle Body Clean
Originally posted by GimmeTorq
Follow the instructions in

http://www.motorvate.ca/

On your left side, click on "Engine" and then "Throttle Body Clean". Make sure you also use Valvoline SynPower Throttle Body Cleaner. It works really nice.
That's a good site. I hadn't seen that one before.
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Old 02-24-2002, 11:11 AM
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Excellent Site. Thanks for the link.

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