changing tps torx screws and wire plug wont come lose any tips
Legend
Joined: May 2005
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From: Central Oklahoma
Righty tighty, lefty loosey..... What you have are steel torx screws into an aluminum throttle body. Due to the properties of dissimilar metals.... they have probably become one...... chemicals, tap with hammer, lather, rinse, repeat, until the actually break loose. Try and avoid breaking off.....
Good Luck.
Good Luck.
Yep. If you can get them started to loosen, back them out, then tighten, and then out again a few times. When reinstalling, use anti-seize on the threads.
All Star
Joined: Jul 2011
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From: Dayton, TX.
Get in the habit of using anti-seize on just about all of the nuts and bolts you don't use loctite on, especially when they involve dissimilar metals.
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From: NH
Not really, because at least now the TB is being held. Take it off, and you have to deal with holding it still if you don't have a bench vise.
