Cleaning MAF?
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This is more of a "piece of mind" issue for yourself to wrestle with. People will argue that cleaning the MAF should be a regularly maintained item while others go their entire ownership period without issue or a second thought.
Now, I did clean mine. No for any other reason than I was bored and needed a no stress project. I was able to make a 15 minute task into 90 minutes by over engineering cleaning, inspecting tightening....etc and with the aid of a couple of beer.
Now, I did clean mine. No for any other reason than I was bored and needed a no stress project. I was able to make a 15 minute task into 90 minutes by over engineering cleaning, inspecting tightening....etc and with the aid of a couple of beer.
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This is more of a "piece of mind" issue for yourself to wrestle with. People will argue that cleaning the MAF should be a regularly maintained item while others go their entire ownership period without issue or a second thought.
Now, I did clean mine. No for any other reason than I was bored and needed a no stress project. I was able to make a 15 minute task into 90 minutes by over engineering cleaning, inspecting tightening....etc and with the aid of a couple of beer.
Now, I did clean mine. No for any other reason than I was bored and needed a no stress project. I was able to make a 15 minute task into 90 minutes by over engineering cleaning, inspecting tightening....etc and with the aid of a couple of beer.
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A MAF and Throttle Body cleaning every other year would be a good preventative maintenance task…cleaning grounds on the outside of the car wouldn’t hurt either.
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Very carefully use an electrical spray contact cleaner and a Q-tip. Very gently run across both sides of the wires. I do that about every 25k miles because I use a high flow / oiled filter. Maybe 25% of the time I notice a better idle (when there is clearly a dirty wire)
