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Hey Eric,
I was watching the video “Solving Engine Performance Issues (Part 2)” around 9:25 you made a comment about you don’t recommend taking throttle bodies off to clean them. I was just wondering why you don’t recommend doing that?
I am a little worried now, because I took mine off and cleaned it. I put a new gasket on it when reassembling it. I Was just wondering from your comment if I am going to experience issues later down the road?
Appreciate your time
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Just do a search above on “throttle body” and you’ll see that many have attempted throttle cleaning by removing the throttle body only to find they have a no start or the vehicle won’t idle right. In my opinion there is no need to remove the throttle body to clean it. Considering the risk you undertake by removing it I don’t recommend that it gets removed to be cleaned.
[quote=”EricTheCarGuy” post=49470]Just do a search above on “throttle body” and you’ll see that many have attempted throttle cleaning by removing the throttle body only to find they have a no start or the vehicle won’t idle right. In my opinion there is no need to remove the throttle body to clean it. Considering the risk you undertake by removing it I don’t recommend that it gets removed to be cleaned.[/quote]
Gotcha. Interesting they were having issues. I have done it on a couple different vehicles with major success in idle, but I will take precautions for the future. Thanks for the input!
Almost forgot to post the videos in question.
Solving Performance Problems 1
Solving Performance Problems 2
Re Performance Problems
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