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is my throttle body dirty?


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Fitted my plenum spacer today, which all went well, but I noticed a little bit of black stickiness around the butterfly valve.

It didn't really look like a lot to me, considering she's done 60,000 miles, and no problems with idle... just wondered if it might benefit from a clean in the near future?

 

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inside the plenum was nice and clean, just a few black specks.

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nope looks pretty clean to me :shrug:

 

ok there is a small amount of carbon near the lower part of the valve that might benefit a little tidy up, but to be honest nothing i'd be worrying about.

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Mad Marky came to mine last year and his car was not happy at idle. His TB was a little dirtier than yours and carb cleaner and a toothbrush sorted it. Just dont move / open the butterfly valve when your doing it :thumbs:

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thanks mr Biscuit, I thought it was ok, just didn't have anything to compare it to :thumbs:

 

cheers Lee, I'll bear that in mind

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There is some build up of carbon you can see and some sticky stuff on the edges.

 

As you have gone this far you might as well give it a clean. You will be surprised how much of a difference it will make.

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