Photonfanatic
Active Member
Is it really necessary to take your throttle body off, and clean it all up? Throttle body cleaner is one of the more common chemicals sold at the auto parts store. But why? Are they somehow particularly dirty somewhere? I guess I haven't really seen very many dirty throttle bodies. Mine has a tiny sliver of oil that lingers around at the bottom of the entry circle, but that's going to be there no matter what you do. Yet I see all these youtube videos where people are showing how to take a throttle body off, clean it up, and put it back on.
Granted theirs may have had a little more dirt and grunge but is cleaning a small amount of filth out of the throttle body itself, somehow going to help? Is airflow being impeded in some way? It certainly doesn't look like it. I've never seen one that was so dirty, that it needed to be taken off of there, and given the royal treatment. Can't you just stick a rag in there with some TB cleaner on there, and be done with it? Why do so many people fully disassemble all that stuff?
Granted theirs may have had a little more dirt and grunge but is cleaning a small amount of filth out of the throttle body itself, somehow going to help? Is airflow being impeded in some way? It certainly doesn't look like it. I've never seen one that was so dirty, that it needed to be taken off of there, and given the royal treatment. Can't you just stick a rag in there with some TB cleaner on there, and be done with it? Why do so many people fully disassemble all that stuff?