I just bought a new throttle body, but short of that I think I would go with throttle body cleaner like the future TOTM winner suggested.

 

Bear, you sure have been sarcastic lately. hehe, i like it

 

Sorry... didn't mean to be especially in this one. I apologize if I offended anyone.Now maybe in some other cases it was meant to be but I ain't speaking on that right now.

 

Dodge issued a TSB regarding throttle body cleaner. It tells techs to use brake cleaner instead.

 

HMMM I wonder what the reasoning is behind that? Thats interesting. I've done a few and I always used TB cleaner and never any problem. I'm curious to know more about this.

 

that is interesting.

Bear, If anybody took offense to what you said, they probably shouldnt read have the stuff that ends up on this forum!

 

I forget which forum I saw the notes and reference on. TB cleaner more "corrosive", more likely to damage the Idle Air Controller on the TB? I don't think the TSB said why. The manual says do not use carb cleaner. Maybe TB cleaner is chemically too close to carb cleaner.

 

just don't wanna be mistook!

 

My shop manual says not to use carb cleaner -- maybe it's very close to TB cleaner and don't use for the same reason.

 

Huh, who would have thought that you shouldn't use throttle body cleaner on a throttle body?