I recently cleaned my turbo tubing and saw how dirty my throttle body was. After scraping all the chunks off I used brake cleaner and a wire brush to clean it. Total time was about 4 hours to dissamble, clean, and reassemble.




Dirty





Dirty





Inside plastic intake part





Small oil puddle in lower intake to turbo





Better view of small oil puddle





Cleaned





Cleaned

 

What a mess! Thanks for the reminder!

 

How many miles ya got on that thing? May need to look at mine.

 

what year truck and how many miles?

 

yuk. What is your duty cycle on that thing.

 

Thats what mine used to look like, until I got rid of the problem,EGR!!!

 

Nasty.... Glad you got it cleaned out - I bet the engine runs a lot better now.

According to the OPs profile, he has a 2011 with 125k - 150k miles on it...

 

It's a 2011 and has 145k miles. I did the egr and dpf delete at 105k miles. This is the first time I've cleaned it.
To be honest I can't really tell a difference in driving.
If a chunk would have gotten dislodged it could have really caused a problem though.

 

I don't know what is worse, the fact that a piece could have dislodged and caused havoc or you can't tell a difference in driving it....