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Offline jocarl11

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Re: Throttle body cleaning.
« Reply #30 on: 14 February 2010, 22:26 »
Went to clean the tb today but noticed a black silicone looking substance round the tb where the gasket should go could this be a liquid gasket?? I didn't wanna take the tb off after that incase it is. Anyway i took the main hose off to look inside and it looked spotless so dont see any point anyway.
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Offline Deano2711

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Re: Throttle body cleaning.
« Reply #31 on: 14 February 2010, 23:04 »
Quote from: jocarl11 on 14 February 2010, 22:26
Went to clean the tb today but noticed a black silicone looking substance round the tb where the gasket should go could this be a liquid gasket?? I didn't wanna take the tb off after that incase it is. Anyway i took the main hose off to look inside and it looked spotless so dont see any point anyway.

Mine looked spotless when I looked but the car ran like sh!te. I took it off and cleaned thoroughly and you would be amazed how much gunk came out. The car has ran perfect ever since. As for the gasket these will be cheap enough to buy and I would get one first then take it off and clean and remove the old stuff.      Cheers     Deano
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Offline thai-wronghorse

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Re: Throttle body cleaning.
« Reply #32 on: 15 February 2010, 08:22 »
As Deano says above, mine also looked spotless initially when i first removed the pipe from the TB....but it wasn't until i unbolted it that i discovererd how much gunk was inside the butterfly affecting the idle massively.
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Offline jocarl11

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Re: Throttle body cleaning.
« Reply #33 on: 15 February 2010, 09:12 »
Ahh right i will take it completely off once i've bought a gasket! Someone must have been desperate to use that stuff round there lol.
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Offline bamberjim

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Re: Throttle body cleaning.
« Reply #34 on: 16 February 2010, 14:28 »
I have had a really lumpy tickover for a while now so thought i would give this ago...

Firstly this is a very easy job, secondly it worked.. ticks over really nice now..

Cheers Guys.. :smiley:

Next onto fitting the coilovers...
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Offline DanChave

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Re: Throttle body cleaning.
« Reply #35 on: 26 October 2012, 16:55 »
Why is it such a bad thing to remove the switch? I have already done so  :lipsrsealed:
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