A&Q about 350Z
Q:
Hi,
noob here :)
I've decided that after stalling while approaching the light after coming down a motorway slip at speed (and having to basically jump start myself very quickly) and soiling another pair of jeans that the time has come to clean out my throttle body. I've read loads of the threads and think I've got a fair idea of what I'm going to be doing. Ideally I'd like to take the whole throttle body off and give it a good clean.
I have two questions though - and apologies for them being trivial but I'm new to all this after previously entrusting stealerships.
1. What are the chances of me busting the gasket that goes between the throttle body and the the whateveryoucallit. In such a situation what do I do after cursing a few times. Should I be able to get one easy enough form a main dealer? (It's a mk3 AGG) Will I be ablle to drive there? lol
2. I've seen loads of the threads use different things to do the cleaning, from perol to carb cleaner. I went to the local car shop (not halfords) and they had never heard of throttle body cleaner. I did buy carb cleaner instead but I am worried about using it as I've read elsewhere that it is too aggresive and might damage sensors or something. Will it be ok? if not, any idea where I mght get proper throttle body cleaner from. I had a google for it but don't see anything obvious.
Hope you've read this far!
thanks
Mark.
A:
Hi Mark, welcome to the forum.
Carb cleaner is all you need.
I'd recommend cleaning the throttle body without taking off the whole thing. It can make a great deal of difference, even resolve whole thing, but just taking off the air inlet hose part and spray carb all over the butterfly valve, use a cloth to wripe of crude that comes out. Push on the throttle cable part to open the butterfly valve and spray more inside and wipe with cloth again. I wouldn't worry too much about the dirt that goes through, not ideal but its work fine for me many times on many cars.
Afterwards, put it all back together, and start it up, might take a few extra cranks for it to start over, just give it some revs and it'll be fine. Not 100% sure what AGG is, is that the 2.0L 8v GTI or something? Well if your car has a mass air flow sensor MAF/MAP then clean that with carb aswell.
HTH, Garfay.
A:
Yeah if it helps, I cleaned my throttle body for the first time in the pitch dark, having never done it before, and I didn't manage to break anything!
A:
Thanks guys, just done it and it took 15mins tops and I'm no car maechanic! less crap in there than I thought there would be. Will just have to wait and see if that's done the job although in my 2 mins up and down the car park test it was returning straight to idle speed and not going past and "seeking" - so fingers crossed.
Thanks again.