I pulled my intake off to clean the maf and while it was off I tried to clean what I could of the throttle body without actually removing it. I pulled the throttle cable to open it up and the back of the plate along with the throttle body where covered in a layer of dark almost burnt looking oil/carbon mixture. It wiped away to a clean surface easily even with no cleaner. Is this normal at all or do I have a big problem? Its a 5.4 with 80,000 miles bought at 50k, have never cleaned the throttle body before. I pulled the PCV to check that and it seemed perfectly fine.

 

it's a normal thing, but it won't hurt to clean your TB

 

I just bought a Volant cool air intake and want to get a throttle body spacer to go with it. I've been looking around to see what there prices are and what they do. I was just wondering what you had to say about brands and which one is the best.

 

The TB spacer won't help anything.
So don't buy one.

 

you want gains and are consideringa throttle body spacer for your fuel injected motor


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