My mechanic friend checked my truck out when the check engine light came for the first time with over 99,000 miles on the truck. He determined that it was not a sensor but the housing that the EGR mounts to (he called it the throttle body) is carboned up which he says is fairly common for a 4.6 with around a 100,000 miles on it. Could someone give me step by step instructions on how to remove and clean this myself. My friend has his own shop, 2 kids, 1 ex-wife and a new wife with 3 kids and will charge me a small fee to work on it. He can't afford to do charity work. I would rather do it myself if I can. Any help would be great. I want to be sure this is something I want to mess with.

Thanks,

 

http://www.fordf150.net/howto/throttlebodyclean.php

 

Do a search on 'Throttle body cleaning' and look for articles from 'jbrew', he has great info and plenty of pixs. Way to go jbrew, you stole your own thunder, look at the time.

 

Crap !! I should have let you build me up first

Heres one cleaned -

 

Just notice he has a 4.6, so be nice

 

I'm always nice - even if he doesn't refresh his browser ..

 

Thanks for the info.