I had a shop repair my pleneum gasket today and I had to put plugs in when I got home. I decided to go ahead and look down the TB to see how it looked. Well, the butterflys on the TB looked dirt so I Tried cleaning them off with a rag. They had a lot of dirt/sludge on them. I got them mostly clean but a piece of sludge or dirt or whatever it is fell down into the intake and is laying on the pleneum pan thing that was replaced with a aluminum one. Is this okay or do I need to find out how to get it out? Any ideas on how to get it out? I'm freaking out a little here. Is it something I shouldn't worry about or do I need to do something about it? Thanks.

 

you can take the tb off and take a shopvac with a upalstry wandto reach down and suck it out.

 

Ok guys I tried vaccuming it out and got most of the big pieces but there are still these little small pieces of dirt down there. I can't get them out. Here is a picture. Are these okay to leave?

 

Thats fine, its just a little grime, if it was more I would say take off the TB and try to get it out. It does not look like they cleaned the intake very well though...

 

Thats with the TB off I had to take it off to stick the shop vac hose down there. I still have the TB off for right now. I had to go get a new gasket to put it back on.

 

nope... thats gonna cause a horrible misfire. pull that intake manifold off and polish that plenum.



nah, you should be fine man. thats really nothin

 

So it should be fine? I don't want to be putting a motor in this thing a few miles down the road because of something stupid.

 

its fine. a little dirt or carbon deposit, if it gets airborne at all, will blow right through.
in the intake, out the exhaust. whoosh.

now a bolt or a screw or bag of marbles is a different story. [:@]

 

Doesn't it feel great to have a nice shiney bottom in your intake.

 

Yes it does. I wonder if I will get better gas milage now. It doesn't seem to run much different but maybe slightly better but it seems about the same and I didn't really have it ping before. I wasn't sure mine was bad before as it only had a slight bit of oil in the rear and still didn't suck in in you plugged the pcv valve and crankcase breather then let go. I think it was though and after hearing how the bolts were rusted through think so even more but idk. I mainly just didn't want to have to worry about it and due to oil starting to pool slightly I think it was bad.


So basically the general conclusion is this dirt is fine? I also forgot to blow out a spark plug hole before taking the plug out and some dirt was down in there but I'm hoping none of it made it's way down into the hole. I think and hope it's fine. I don't think it got down in the plug hole.