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Cleaning throtle body and buterfly

Curtis

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04 XLT 4x4
I posted today about changing plugs and wires for a miss fire. That was one of my few success stories. the miss fire is gone.
As a note, I was gonna spray some carb cleaner in the throtle body to clean the buterfly and bore because it looked gummy when I took off the breather tube. Well before I started to spray I noticed a tiny sticker warning on the throtle body. DO NOT CLEAN INSIDE THROTLE BODY OR BORE. IT HAS A PROTECTIVE COATING. I was glad I read that.

What can I spray in there to clean it up?
 






Amsoil powerfoam works great.
 






just wipe the gunk off with a rag...it is fairly chunky if a lot has accumulated
 






If you just want to clean the butterfly pull the 4 bolts out pop the throttle cabel off with a screw driver and pull the vacume line off the bottom, spray with break-kleener let dry and re-assemble just dont spray any thing in the intake plenum and you'r all good.
 






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