My cure for my cold start problems...
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My cure for my cold start problems...
Before I cleaned my throttle body, my engine would have trouble starting sometimes. Since last year or maybe 2 years ago I just started to give it a little bit of gas when I started my car...I haven't done that since my old '85 Blazer. Also when idling to a stop, my engine would sometimes do a weird puttering thing and feel like its jerking slightly to stay awake.
After cleaning the throttle body I noticed that the engine turns alot easier and the RPMs push a little higher right after I start it. Throttle feels ALOT smoother. No more jerkiness when idling. There was quite a bit of carbon build up around the inlet of the throttle body and around the flap. It was as satisfying as taking a rather large poo that you've been holding in forever and realizing its really dry and huge and going to hurt on its way out. *sigh*
Conclusion: My car feels new again! I am so happy and recommend EVERYONE doing this. (unless theres something wrong with cleaning your throttle body that I don't know about) The beautiful thing is that this was my first time ever doing this and it took me only 30 minutes.
After cleaning the throttle body I noticed that the engine turns alot easier and the RPMs push a little higher right after I start it. Throttle feels ALOT smoother. No more jerkiness when idling. There was quite a bit of carbon build up around the inlet of the throttle body and around the flap. It was as satisfying as taking a rather large poo that you've been holding in forever and realizing its really dry and huge and going to hurt on its way out. *sigh*
Conclusion: My car feels new again! I am so happy and recommend EVERYONE doing this. (unless theres something wrong with cleaning your throttle body that I don't know about) The beautiful thing is that this was my first time ever doing this and it took me only 30 minutes.
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that's what dealer typically does for cold start issues, clean out carbon buildup out of TB....
another way to clean out carbon buildup is to WOT on the expressway for a bit... a lot of stop and go city traffic really builds that thing up
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