Maf sensor cleaning--clamps?
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Burning Brakes
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Maf sensor cleaning--clamps?
Am going to remove Maf sensor to clean and notice clamps holding it in place to the rubber air bridge from air cleaner to throttle body are a type I have never seem before. Are they reusable? How do you unclamp them, there is no screw to loosen them. Do you squeeze them or twist them to loosen them and then reinstall them in the same way? Will I need new ones to reinstall Maf sensor?
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Burning Brakes
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Companies like CRC make Maf sensor cleaning sprays and I have read numerous articles on many sites about cleaning Maf sensor's. Self cleaning feature must not work very well. I have read on this forum about people with problems that went away after they cleaned their Maf sense.
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Companies like CRC make Maf sensor cleaning sprays and I have read numerous articles on many sites about cleaning Maf sensor's. Self cleaning feature must not work very well. I have read on this forum about people with problems that went away after they cleaned their Maf sense.
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Companies like CRC make Maf sensor cleaning sprays and I have read numerous articles on many sites about cleaning Maf sensor's. Self cleaning feature must not work very well. I have read on this forum about people with problems that went away after they cleaned their Maf sense.
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They're self-cleaning if the MAF burnoff relay (or module on '85s) is working. It's very common for the relay contacts to get dirty and then the burnoff doesn't work. This seems to be especially true of '86s. I think they changed to different relays in later years.
One other problem on '86s is that the MAF power and burnoff relays are different internally but have the same connector. It's easy to accidentally swap connections and then the burnoff doesn't happen. In later years the two relays are the same, so no problem.
One other problem on '86s is that the MAF power and burnoff relays are different internally but have the same connector. It's easy to accidentally swap connections and then the burnoff doesn't happen. In later years the two relays are the same, so no problem.
