Throttle Chamber Questions

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I had some questions regarding the throttle chamber on the 01 max.

There’s an IACV motor attached to the chamber. The chamber is attached to the throttle and the coolant routes through it.
There is a slinky seal that seals the coolant from the IACV operation.

I would like to remove the throttle from another 01 maxima that has never had this replaced hook up water current through to see if the water leaks into the air holes for the IACValve.
Is the gag that the coolant leaks through and damages the sensor?

I had the IACV go bad and the ECM driver burned out too. I am baffled how this happened.

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[college man]

What happens is the rubber gasket hardens over time and coolant seeps into the iac motor and
shorts it out. Then shorts the ecm and burns the chip and board. When this happens the ecm and
iac needs to be replaced. The keys also need to be reprogrammed and the idle relearn needs to be done.

[guess it begins with R and ends with n]

Thanks for the response. I’ll take your word for it. It seems logical but I’ve never heard of it.

So on these cars you have to carefully remove the throttle once every so often clean and reseal throttle chamber or the coolant leaks through and shorts out the ECM costing thousands of dollars in damage?!

[college man]

[quote=”maxiitech” post=166005]Thanks for the response. I’ll take your word for it. It seems logical but I’ve never heard of it.

So on these cars you have to carefully remove the throttle once every so often clean and reseal throttle chamber or the coolant leaks through and shorts out the ECM costing thousands of dollars in damage?![/quote]

I’m not sure if the new ecm will blow or not? A gasket every couple years is alot cheaper.

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