Hello all,

 

I have just cleaned the throttle bodies :hyper: bloody dirty they were I have had the car a year and this is the first time i've done it :o and once finished the car didnt chuck out any black smoke like the guide says is this normal??

 

I took it for a drive to test all was ok and the car seems alot quicker and the pick up better, is this correct or is it all my head.

 

Thanks all.

 

Ant :D

Hello all,

 

I have just cleaned the throttle bodies :hyper: bloody dirty they were I have had the car a year and this is the first time i've done it :o and once finished the car didnt chuck out any black smoke like the guide says is this normal??

 

I took it for a drive to test all was ok and the car seems alot quicker and the pick up better, is this correct or is it all my head.

 

Thanks all.

 

Ant :D

 

 

i noticed better pickup but also a slightly higher idle which is apparently normal ;) until the ecu reconises the new air-flow properties

 

i had a bit of black smoke but then it depends how often you opened the butterflies up to clean behind them,kind of like trying to start a moped floods the engine slightly.

i noticed better pickup but also a slightly higher idle which is apparently normal ;) until the ecu reconises the new air-flow properties

 

i had a bit of black smoke but then it depends how often you opened the butterflies up to clean behind them,kind of like trying to start a moped floods the engine slightly.

 

 

Thanks mate, glad to see it aint in my head.

 

I did only open them once just put my mums littlewoods catalogue on the loud pedal and cleaned them both,

 

Cheers

To clean the throttle bodies is it just a case of spraying the carb cleaner into the throttle body housing through the butterfly and letting drain out ??? As i wanna do asap

Basically yeah, give it a scrub with an old toothbrush too to get the crud out.

 

i had a bit of black smoke but then it depends how often you opened the butterflies up to clean behind them,kind of like trying to start a moped floods the engine slightly.

 

Not really, you only get that on vehicles with a carburetor since these have an accelerator enrichment pump connected to the throttle linkage. EFI cars are enriched on acceleration by the ECU so no fuel will be squirted into the intake when you open the butterflies with the engine turned off..... :)

do i need to take them off of can i do on car ??

Leave them on the car mate. Squirt some carb cleaner into the bodies and give them a good brush with a toothbrush. Job done .. sorted. Be careful you don't lose the brush.

Disconnect the battery too while you do it. This will reset the ECU so it re-learns the mixture correction with the improved breathing. Also worth cleaning the idle valve at the back of the engine too - just pull the pipe off it and squirt some cleaner in there...

Disconnect the battery too while you do it. This will reset the ECU so it re-learns the mixture correction with the improved breathing. Also worth cleaning the idle valve at the back of the engine too - just pull the pipe off it and squirt some cleaner in there...

 

Andy,

 

Could you tell me where the idle valve pipe is that you have to clean please as I didnt do this part

 

Thanks mate,

 

Ant :)

There's a metal tube runs along the passenger side of the plenum, then goes to a rubber pipe which goes round the back of the engine. This goes onto the idle valve. Unbolt it and remove the pipe from the valve and squirt a good dose of carb cleaner in there.

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

There's a metal tube runs along the passenger side of the plenum, then goes to a rubber pipe which goes round the back of the engine. This goes onto the idle valve. Unbolt it and remove the pipe from the valve and squirt a good dose of carb cleaner in there.

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

 

Excellent thanks mate, I'll take a go at this at the weekend when I have some light to see it.

:bow:

 

Thanks again.

 

Ant