mine was dirty as hell. i think my mechanic cleaned it about a year ago when the truck was stalling. so i noticed lately coming off the highway the truck would bog down, so i figured id check it out, and this is what i got

cleaned her up and put it back on. not sure how much it improved bc i just drove about neighborhood. really easy, took aroudn 20 min at most. also theres a nice write up on how to do it over at DT.

so for u guys who are having trouble, go out and clean urs


Also will post video of my dump truck horn i installed if i can get the damn thing to work correctly

 

very nice matt!! I cleaned mine today as well!

 

Wow, just wondering how those get so dirty? Is the pic of the back side? Is it a 4.7L thing perhaps? You probably will feel a difference for sure after cleaning that baby.

 

no thats a hemi TB. Seems like every 30k or so they come out looking like that.

 

yeah its a hemi tb and thats the back side.

heres a vid of my horn, i think the solenoid isnt opening quick enough or fully, you can here the burst first before the horn sounds. its at 105 psi and the horn can operate at 80 psi. so im not sure whats going on with that. any ideas?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bu1PoI_02A

 

Thanks thats what I thought but reason I asked is I've owned mine for three years and when I got it it was abused and had 192 K but never did the throttle body look like that. I bought the truck for a reasonable price at the time and have since spend 12K on parts including about 250 bucks farmed out for welding and a re-flash, everything else I did myself. I now have 225 K so 33 K in 3 years is good (20 thousands miles). With all the talk here about cleaning TB's (and you say should be done every 30 or so) I decided to do that last week along with some other maintenance and It still looked pretty well like new aluminum with just a touch of soot in the corners around the Plate Pin and in the front bottum of the Hat Box side, so I must be very very lucky and my set-up must be clean burn or somethhing as I also have very little soot in the exhaust.

Sorry for the long winded narrative but in my world I find it strange is all. But definately have a look at it at least annually or like you say 30 K max.

 

sounds good to me

 

yea I've just heard 30k. Mine wasnt first cleaned until after 100k miles on it. I usually clean it around every 10k, just a wipe down and spray just to stay on top of things. Only takes 20 minutes and if I'm changing the oil or doing other work under the hood I just go ahead and give it a quick clean anyways.

 

I hear Ya, Matt that horn is fnnn..loud, I like it, that will get those cavaliers and Neons movin out of your way. Hmmm airhorn I should look into that, Thanks.

 

maybe you guys have better gas ? also i usually run 87 b.c im cheap and in college. also my last name name is matty first is patrick. but its cool. just dont call me fatty patty haha


also totally of subject, http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...od=family-home