Can a dirty throttle body cause stalling?
While throttle-body cleaning is good preventative car maintenance, it should also help engine drivability. In fact, if you’ve noticed a rough idle, stumbling initial acceleration or even stalling – all when the engine is fully warmed up – a dirty throttle body could be the culprit.
Can you spray throttle body cleaner into throttle body?
With the air intake runner removed and the engine running, spray the cleaner directly into the throttle body bore. The cleaner will be distributed to each cylinder. Spraying the cleaner into the throttle body will also clean the throttle body, so doing both cleaning jobs with one step.
Can you clean a carburetor without removing it?
Cleaning a carburetor without removing it is fine. However, it can and should never replace the wholesome cleaning exercises. This is because it does not impact the entire length and breadth of the engine as should be the case.
What causes a Subaru Outback to stall at a stoplight?
These were just some of the most common ones. A dirty throttle body can lead to stalling in your Outback. If you let off of the gas coming to a stoplight and it stalls for a second or two and recovers itself, it very well could be a dirty throttle body that is causing the problem.
Can you clean the throttle body on a Subaru Outback?
As noted in a previous thread, I recently cleaned the throttle body on my 1998 Subaru Outback… the Subaru dealership recommended this as a part of their 150,000 mile service, but I was unwilling to pay $500 for the entire package, so I opted to do as much of it as possible myself.
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Do you remove the blade on a Subaru Outback?
The bolts themselves were set so that you could only orient the sensor body one way on the TB. I didn’t remove the TPS. What I DID do was remove the blade to clean and to gain better access to the mouth of the TB (the mouth faces the windhshield such that you almost have to stand on your head in the engine compartment to be able to see inside).