Throttle body cleaning

[saeedmagsi]

Assalam o Alaikum brothers. I have toyota corolla se saloon. I want to clean my car's throttle body. Can i just spray carb cleaner in the throttle body and rev the engine at high rpm. Will this practice clean the throttle body and make any difference in the performance of car? And is it necessary to change the engine oil after this DIY ? And what are the possible alarming situations that can occur after this DIY ?Actually i dont want to let the mechanics open the throttle body. Please give your suggestions specially gurus of pakwheels

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[saeedmagsi]

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[aqibasit]

First tell that why you want to do this? Facing any problems?

[shabbir.53]

If your car engine idles without any problem, i.e. there is no hunting, then you don't need to do anything.

[zilgen]

You can get a throtle body cleaner for that purpose although carb cleaner works fine too. Start the engine, un-plug the the pipe comming in fron the air filter, you should be able to see the fly. It opens as you rev the engine. spray the throtle body cleaner while reving high. Dont use up all of the cleaner at one time, depends on how much carbon deposits you see in the throtle body. Even when you are done spraying keep reving the engine for like 30 secs or so to make sure everything that went in is burnt. You will feel a funny smell comming from the exhaust tip and probably carbon deposits too. Cars throtle response should improve after this little trick. Enjoy the ride and be safe

[saeedmagsi]

Thank you all for your response. There is no problem in idling. Just the thing that i m feeling is drop in pick and power of the car.

[talhawaleed]

Throttle body should be cleaned regularly least once every 20k km, not a rocket science as every mechanic can do this simple job. Spraying carburetor cleaner cleans the inside and frees the stuck idle Air Control sensor but point remains that if it has been a long time, you have not serviced throttle body then I would advise against this as spraying carburetor cleaner as it will dislodges a lot of carbon from throttle body and intake manifold to the cylinder head. Not a very good practice so removing the throttle body and cleaning is a much better solution.

[saeedmagsi]

Throttle body should be cleaned regularly least once every 20k km, not a rocket science as every mechanic can do this simple job. Spraying carburetor cleaner cleans the inside and frees the stuck idle Air Control sensor but point remains that if it has been a long time, you have not serviced throttle body then I would advise against this as spraying carburetor cleaner as it will dislodges a lot of carbon from throttle body and intake manifold to the cylinder head. Not a very good practice so removing the throttle body and cleaning is a much better solution.

Thank you brother for ur help and suggestion

[huzaifa13]

Yes I also recommend you to get your Corolla's throttle body cleaned at Toyota Islamabad Motors because I have also got it cleaned from there and had no problems.They take out the throttle body clean it and then re-install it.