Throttle Plate Crud
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Throttle Plate Crud
I put this at the end of my last post but I figured it might be worth its own. I would recommend doing this if your a little mechanically inclined. Take your throttle body off and clean it and right behind it. I can't describe how much soot is back there. It was way worse than my 6.0 egr. I read searching for a post on this about 1/8" but my intake was almost looked like it had stalactites in it. It was bad. This was at 106,000 miles.
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I put this at the end of my last post but I figured it might be worth its own. I would recommend doing this if your a little mechanically inclined. Take your throttle body off and clean it and right behind it. I can't describe how much soot is back there. It was way worse than my 6.0 egr. I read searching for a post on this about 1/8" but my intake was almost looked like it had stalactites in it. It was bad. This was at 106,000 miles.
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one point of thought would be how much towing or heavy hauling you have done in all those miles.
I wonder, like the egr cooler on these if that has any bearing on keeping it cleaner?
I wonder, like the egr cooler on these if that has any bearing on keeping it cleaner?
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Unfortunately I never really used it much for its intended purpose of hauling loads of wood so mostly daily driving mixed with some light towing. I would have documented it but it came about from having to do a TSB on it. I had the buzzing at shut down and had to replace a vacuum harness and pulled off the throttle body in the process. It's easy to do just need to be willing to take an hour or 2 out of your day. I just used degreaser on a rag and a flat blade screwdriver to scrape the heavy stuff off first. The manifold side I just scraped out with vacuum by the opening. When I say scrape be gentle because it is aluminum.
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This is exactly why a egr and dpf delete is a must in my books. Can't believe recirculating soot thou your engine is an acceptable emission device. Imagine what the rest of the intake tract and intake valves look like. Then add up all the sensor failures, wasted fuel from regens, fuel dilution. Deletes don't look like a waste of money if you plan on keeping one for any length of time.
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I agree diesel EGR is brutal. Like I posted in another thread I've seen pics of Cummins grid heaters that look like a grill in a BBQ smoker that has never been cleaned. Alot of people have reported good results using simple green to clean soot coated components.
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