Removing 1999 Honda Throttle Body

[Yuri]

If I removed my Honda Prelude (1999) throttle body for cleaning…
Did I just propel my self into a world of pain?
My car has a cable type throttle, not electronic.
This is just a mechanical part…can someone please explain to why removal of this part is frowned upon by Eric?
I understand why drive-by-wire throttles can be affected after removal but cable ones…?

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[Rob]

Im thinking your talking about the screw…. I have see him talk about people messing with the idel screw to ajust the idel…. and messing up the car… I havent see him talk about the cable… on one video he re-tenchin the cable because it had some slack in it and was cuasing a problem, but if you can send the link of what your talking about I could maybe explain it

[college man]

[quote=”Yuri” post=174275]If I removed my Honda Prelude (1999) throttle body for cleaning…
Did I just propel my self into a world of pain?
My car has a cable type throttle, not electronic.
This is just a mechanical part…can someone please explain to why removal of this part is frowned upon by Eric?
I understand why drive-by-wire throttles can be affected after removal but cable ones…?[/quote]

On the mechanical one you have not a problem. We get a lot of posts after people clean there tb.
So Eric feels if you leave it in place and clean it there is less of a chance to have a problem. The
drive by wire are the biggest post problem. A lot of the time people have already done the damage.

[Miguel Monzones]

[quote=”Yuri” post=174275]If I removed my Honda Prelude (1999) throttle body for cleaning…
Did I just propel my self into a world of pain?
My car has a cable type throttle, not electronic.
This is just a mechanical part…can someone please explain to why removal of this part is frowned upon by Eric?
I understand why drive-by-wire throttles can be affected after removal but cable ones…?[/quote]

There’s no “high risk” involve when disconnecting a cable type throttle body, provided you know what you’re doing.
I’ve done this to my ’95 Nissan Sentra and ’99 Mitsubishi Galant.
Before doing the disassembly make sure to disconnect the throttle cable fist. It’s fairly easy to do and it would not change the current setting of your cable (positioning).

But to be honest, if you’re just going to clean it, you don’t need to disassembly the TB. Just disconnect the pipe connecting to the MAF and spray the TB with carbcleaner then brush with a toothbrush. Wipe the residue afterwards.
Be sure to spray the bypass pipe on the TB also to ensure proper clean. Hope this helps. 🙂

[Yuri]

I removed the TB and cleaned it like new! I also cleaned inside the plenum…as far as I could reach!
I’m an obsessive compulsive! I want it as clean as can be…otherwise I can’t sleep! Hahaha!
Seriously though, I did install an aftermarket ‘special’ TB gasket. It’s like a TB spacer, being that it supposedly keeps the temperature down between the TB and plenum. However the passage holes on the gasket are a little different than on the OEM gasket…
I’m having jumping idle problems.
Maybe the new gasket is causing idle trouble?

[Author]

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