What do you guys think?

http://freewebz.com/sinymaxse/maintenance.htm

 

Wow. So many arrows it looks like John Madden made up this playbook.

SuDZ

 

lol i wanted to be exact..lol thank god i didn't use x's and o's

 

Good directions.

This should help all the lazy people to get off their @$$ and do this very easy and cheap maintenence.

 

nice write up, this doesnt look that hard..my car is a 97 should i do this.. when my car starts up soemthing it wants to die but it neevr does what do u think?

 

When I did mine all I disconnected what the part that connect to the TB itself. From there I jsut lowered it beneather the TB and cleaned it out. That might work just as easily for those who are going to take this on.

SuDZ

 

Thats one dirty TB!

 

I'd do it, no reason not too. I also have a 97 and it helps the car run smoother, and then later my friend clean his 95 and he said the same thing. I mean $3 and less then 30 minutes, why not?

 

some of us Southeast guys were just talking about this. i am going to do it this weekend, i have about 77k miles right now. good write up. peace.

 

Thanks for this. The pictures help alot. I'm gonna do this eventually. My car is pretty smooth right now. If it isn't broke...

 

can we get this to be a sticky? Should save a bunch of the usual ???'s

 

With all the detailed pictures and your explanations anyone should be able to get the job done.

 

Thanks for the hook up yo!! I needed this and it will be a fun weekend project to do. I appreciate the effort.

 

wow...only takes 30 minutes ehhh..hmmm...i might work on this saturday after work...if it's only gonna be that long...but u r talking about me here...i'm a clutz...well..hmmm...nice directions...i can follow but it's ALWAYS a whole different story when it's in front of me....

 

that now that i have done this two or three times that i can do it thoroughly in 30 minutes. 20 just to get it done... first time, took me about an hour but i had to take pics too...

 

Hey, don't worry too much. Here's what I found most helpfull. Keep a log book and write down exactly everything you do step by step, include the difficulties you had in removing things or what not. Second of all, every part you take out, arrange them nicely in a line in the order you took them out, it helps when putting thing back together (just go backwards).
The most important thing of all, never ever rush. If something does not fit back into it's original place, take a break and come back to it.
Good luck man.

 

Here is another write up, this is the one that I originally used.
I'd look at both to get a better understanding

http://www.motorvate.ca/

Click Engine, then Throttle Body Clean

 

Thanks for that site, i've been looking for that for ages.

 

Great page! I read in some other posts that you should use throttle body/air intake cleaner instead of carbeurator cleaner. Something about stripping the inner coating of the throttle body. any thoughts? Also, did you do it with the engine running or off? different people did it different ways - just curious how you did it.

 

Do not use carb cleaner!
If you read the back of most carb cleaners, they state: Do not use on a Fuel injection system.
Just get the throttle body cleaner in the picture, it's what I used, plus the angled spray nozzle makes it so much easier

 

Nice write up

 

Actually, your picture was what i was referring to - it says "Carb Choke and throttle body" cleaner, which is meant for carbeurators. The one I used says "Fuel injected/Air intake throttle body cleaner" or something to that effect, but certainly not "Carb."

 

I like the one on www.motorvate.ca better

 

Nice , I printed out a copy to put in my files. Got any other maintenance write-ups?

 

first i did the procedure with engine off.
second i did not find any other throttle body cleaner but then again i really didn't look too hard, but pep boys sells the same can i got at kmart for a dollar more...
third i'll be thinking of some common writeups to do and they should be up soon. i was thinking of how to remove door panels, and how to remove gauge cluster to install gauge dash/indiglos.

****MaxVQ, Motorvate write up is the bomb, thats where i got the idea to do my write up. i couldn't find any good instructions until someone linked me his site..my car was running so sh*tty, i just wanted to put in some more detailed pics and since i have a crap load of space left on my site i figured why not use it.

Julius

 

crap..sorry guys i just checked my site, i just exceeded my bandwith for the month in 4 days. anybody know a good free provider with a decent amount of bandwith or unlimited bandwith? for now my site is frozen and i can't get it back up without paying a fee. ERR...

 

let me apologize for the site being down, i exceeded my bandwith quota and they frooze the site. i recieved many positive emails and pm's and i just wanted to tell everyone who was interested in teh write-up that the bandwith problem has been fixed and the site is up again.

 

go long go long...

(throws TB....)

doah!



nice writeup