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Offline AntMk3GTi

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Cleaning throttle butterfly valve 1.8t AUM
« on: 04 March 2013, 15:08 »
Hi

I've done a search on this but can't find a definiate answer for just cleaning the butterfly valve. If I carefully clean the valve without removing the TB (just taking of the intake pipe), do I need to get it re-aligned with VAG com? I've only got un-registered VCDS lite.

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Offline DubAndDubber

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Re: Cleaning throttle butterfly valve 1.8t AUM
« Reply #1 on: 04 March 2013, 17:12 »
Nope it'll be fine, take both pipes off and do both sides.
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Offline brewey

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Re: Cleaning throttle butterfly valve 1.8t AUM
« Reply #2 on: 04 March 2013, 17:20 »
The car aligns it itself after 20 odd miles anyways so just to for it.
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Re: Cleaning throttle butterfly valve 1.8t AUM
« Reply #3 on: 04 March 2013, 17:59 »
An be up to 100 miles so best not to
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Re: Cleaning throttle butterfly valve 1.8t AUM
« Reply #4 on: 04 March 2013, 19:34 »
And if you force it either way you can damage the stepper motor
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Re: Cleaning throttle butterfly valve 1.8t AUM
« Reply #5 on: 05 March 2013, 14:52 »

Cheers for the replies. I was going to carefully clean around the intake, then use a brick on the accelerator pedal to open the throttle so I can clean the edge of the butterfly valve.

I won't use any force to open so hopefully wont be out of alignment.
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