Painted the plenum and blower while I was at it. Looks good and hopefully my Razors Edge oil catch will arrive soon so I don't have to clean the damn intercooler again .

 

How long did it take you to do it? Any pics of the painted painted the plenum and blower?

i did my last week also and my buddy truck also both under 5 hours working not that fast. Doing one then the other. It took longer just to clean the damn IC that anything else.

 

how many miles do ya'll have on your trucks? And teamsvt2002, did you install any kind of fix to eliminate the oil from gettin into the TB, intercoller, etc.? I'm just curious b/c my buddy w/ an 02 has about 36,000 mi and i am wanting to clean his i/c and am just wondering about how bad it's going to be. thanks

 

I just cleaned mine when I put on my KB... It was nasty, it looked like a black tar river coming out....

I used 9 cans of Brake clean to clean mine...

 

About an hour to remove plenum, blower, and intercooler. Clean throttle body, plenum, and blower with 2 cans of carb cleaner and then I cleaned the intercooler in a parts cleaner/bin.

 

Did you get any more boost by doing this?

 

I would doubt that you would see any additional boost fro cleaning. You will make the cooling of the aircharge more efficient.

Mike

 

using carb cleaner is fine though its oily......brake cleaner works faster and is not oily.


a friends 2003 with 26K miles


my painted plenum