Stuff that's been sucked into the Throttle Body!!

[beeza]

An odd thread,but I was using the suburu upper engine cleaner on my mates 6cyl commodore and DAMN! the thin plastic tube you stick in the nossle to spray hard to reach areas came off and was Oh so close to getting sucked into the engine!

It freak me out,I thought they may have killed his engine?

I have been lucky not to suck anything in there when working on it.So it got me to thinking -

Has anyone else sucked anything into thier Throttle body or know of someone who has?

What happened!? :p

[hisoka]

well same thing on my subaru using upper engine cleaner it sucked it lol~ got stuck like in one second and quickly turned engine off.

how mad is it when it smokes out whole street.

[beeza]

Did U turn the engine off?

Where did it get stuck?

More Info plz! :)

[incoming]

wtf is subaru upper engine cleaner?
u mean carby/throttle body cleaner?

[beeza]

wtf is subaru upper engine cleaner?
u mean carby/throttle body cleaner?

No,it's way better than that.You spray it into the TB and it cleans all the carbon,oil,gunk out of the TB,IM,valve's and everywhere that it contacts when it's been worked through the upper engine.Brilliant!!

Suburu's hold 6 or 7 litre's of oil,that's why they need it.Heaps of carbon and gunk to clean out.

[incoming]

isnt that what the same as carby/TB cleaner?

it blows heaps of smoke, fouls the spark plugs and u have to replace the spark plugs as well??

[beeza]

isnt that what the same as carby/TB cleaner?

it blows heaps of smoke, fouls the spark plugs and u have to replace the spark plugs as well??

No,CC is crap for that.

Haha,nah you don't have to replace the plugs but it does blow a lot of white smoke if it's dirty.

Back on topic plz!!

[hisoka]

it kinda bent and i could see one side poking up lol~ because there was someone in drivers seat revving i told themt to turn it off.

have tou ever taken the manifold off a ej20. not the easiest job in the world

[beeza]

Phew...thank god that didn't get sucked into my mates IM.That thing is massive and would be a nightmare too.

[hisoka]

lol

ive dropped a socket straight into the intake port aswell once same day. that was a night mare lol

[beeza]

Hisoka,ya leaving me high and dry :)

I NEED more details please!!

OMG! What Happened???

[dwn_boi]

howd you get it out??

[vinnY]

i hear sand (http://www.audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267) is usually bad when it goes into the throttle body

[aaronng]

Magnet?

Intake ports are not that deep though. You can look into it and see the valve. The valve should stop the socket from falling into the combustion chamber.

[dsp26]

i did... it was the straw from throttlebody cleaner.


at the time i didn't know how to remove the intake manifold.

so i:
- removed throttlebody
- sealed a vacuum cleaner against the plenum end with rags and turned it on
- cranked the engine bit by bit until each cylinder (one at a time) had the valves open on the intake side
- used an air compressor to blow through sparkplug hole.

= got the straw out from cylinder two lol.


it got sucked into the big nipple on the plenum where the pcv valve hose connects to on the B16a IM

[hisoka]

well in subaru fuel lines are mounted under neath the manifol and around it, metal lines. cool, so i thought to myself as i placed the massive manifold in, let me check if the fuel lines are bolted (need to be grounded) in properley while i was holding a socket in my hand getting the size. i lifted up the manifold like a retard holding a socket in my hand, as i looked underneath i just dropped the socket and it went straight into the intake port. i didnt even hear it hit anything it just went straight down.


after having a sook for 20 minutes my mate came over to drop of some parts, i told him what happened and he went and got this magnet stick thing. it pulled the socket out then he dropped it somewere else in the engine and never found it again lol.

ive lost 3 screw drivers and couple of sockets here and there inside the enigne bay

[dwn_boi]

lmfao!!

[aaronng]

Well, when you sell your car you can advertise that it comes with 3 screwdrivers and a few sockets that you "had" lying around.

[hisoka]

Well, when you sell your car you can advertise that it comes with 3 screwdrivers and a few sockets that you "had" lying around.

lol. theres probably more shit from previous owner. i found screw driver and like 4 sockets the first time i ever worked on it.

but yeah because most people when the work on wrx they take the bonnet off and just sit on top the manifold (asian squat on it) and get to comfortable and start losing parts

[beeza]

Ahahahahaaaaa!!!!

I lost a few things in the engine bay too.The sh!t just disappears!!

I dropped a socket bit,I know it landed on the splash guard but for the life of me,I couldn't find it!

About a month later,there it was on the splashguard!!

I'm sure we have all left screwdrivers down the sides or on the front only to be found next time you get in there :)

[hisoka]

Magnet?

Intake ports are not that deep though. You can look into it and see the valve. The valve should stop the socket from falling into the combustion chamber.


correct but a cross section of a subaru intake por looks like this


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then it kinda curves off to the right then the valves lol so u cant get anything in there

[beeza]

but yeah because most people when the work on wrx they take the bonnet off and just sit on top the manifold (asian squat on it) and get to comfortable and start losing parts

Oh! That brings back memories of trying to take off the IACV on the TB while the TB is still on the car! Don't do this!

I started at midnight,didn't finish until 2.30am squatting on the engine the whole time.Man,I threw some tools that night!

And the stupid thing was I have taken the TB off a few times but once I started I was determined to win! LOL I think I lost.

[beeza]

i hear sand (http://www.audiforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=80267) is usually bad when it goes into the throttle body

Haha,I remember reading that a while back! Classic!

A similair story -

My car is an automatic and my mate told me (friend of a friend),when I didn't know any better to launch the auto,put it into N,rev it up then drop it in D.

Now,I knew this didn't sound good...but man the auto is slow off the line so when I first went to the 1/4,I did this for the 10 runs I had.All good!

About a month later I hear a clunk,bang and pulled over to find the crank pulley sitting on the splashguard and 3 belts scattered around the engine!!

The keyway snapped in the crank pulley! and the crank pulley bolt obviously had come out!

The gap in the crank pulley where the keyway goes was bend out/larger.So we put another one in there with some stong glue to hold it and it worked! PHEW!!

Won't do that again.

[hisoka]

iam running no intake filter right now just open ended pipe on my ek1 lol~ cause filter ripped up i gotta get new one lol

[dwn_boi]

Haha,I remember reading that a while back! Classic!

A similair story -

My car is an automatic and my mate told me (friend of a friend),when I didn't know any better to launch the auto,put it into N,rev it up then drop it in D.

Now,I knew this didn't sound good...but man the auto is slow off the line so when I first went to the 1/4,I did this for the 10 runs I had.All good!

About a month later I hear a clunk,bang and pulled over to find the crank pulley sitting on the splashguard and 3 belts scattered around the engine!!

The keyway snapped in the crank pulley! and the crank pulley bolt obviously had come out!

The gap in the crank pulley where the keyway goes was bend out/larger.So we put another one in there with some stong glue to hold it and it worked! PHEW!!

Won't do that again.

LMFAO do u own a prelude?? its like a factory defect that they fall off haha :P

mine did too!!

see thread:
http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81113

[beeza]

Oh WOW!

That story brings back memories.All those noises,I remember now...

Mine's a 96 civic EK1.

I was lucky that it went bad,like heavy as steering like you said,when I pulled into my street,cause I remember the steering being sooooooo heavy too!!

[dwn_boi]

lol yea it was farked sounded like a lawn mower!!

[beeza]

Yeah I know what you mean when you say ' I could feel her pain!!!!'

It was like she had a golly in her throat she was trying to hock up but ended up throwing up her heart! lol Makes me feel a bit queezy...

[dwn_boi]

lol ewww me too when u put it that way!

hey when u get a service do they clean ur throttle body at all? like in a major like 100 000? maybe i shuld do it myself lol then i'll see what gets sucked n and post up nxt week :D

[DNYALL]

a friend of mine had an s14. had a fair big trbo on it, was pretty quick. Anyway, one day he put a cheap no name brand pod filter on temporarily...not sure why. After a day of driving the smal centre piece of the pod broke and got sucked into the turbo, blowing the turbo...:( lesson learned, don't use $20 pods :p

[beeza]

^^ Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha yeah,I grossed myself out there too!

No,they wouldn't do it,I doubt very much.

Totti on here sells em' seperately,only $10.

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112190&highlight=upper+engine+cleaner&page=2

[hisoka]

lol ewww me too when u put it that way!

hey when u get a service do they clean ur throttle body at all? like in a major like 100 000? maybe i shuld do it myself lol then i'll see what gets sucked n and post up nxt week :D

go buy subaru upper engine cleaner, or if u were in bris id give you my half empty one. lol or anyone else in brisbane. i buy like bulk.

anyway reverse the car out so rear is facing street. turn it on, get someone to rev will you spray into intake .

we smoke out the whole street with clouds :P. and you dont have to but i replace plugs at same time. U DONT HAVE TOO, but i just so picky on it.

[beeza]

Yeah,I just clean mine up with carby cleaner and a small metal brush and set the gaps correctly.

[connorling]

well i heard this joke about port and polish.

DIY: port and polish: put a bag of sand where the intake is, start ur car as usual, the revv it like a mad man, let the sand suck in, as the sand go thru ur engine, it polish ur intake :P

[hotdc2]

did you? or did you just click on the link on page two, read the story, and try to pass it off as your own later on in the thread..?

[beeza]

Whateva...

Funny as story anyways!!

Let's just hope someone didn't try it!

[connorling]

did you? or did you just click on the link on page two, read the story, and try to pass it off as your own later on in the thread..?

o, i ddint read the page 2 when i wrote this. opps......

but i saw that on one of the other forum for nissan.

[jaydnisevil]

No,it's way better than that.You spray it into the TB and it cleans all the carbon,oil,gunk out of the TB,IM,valve's and everywhere that it contacts when it's been worked through the upper engine.Brilliant!!

Suburu's hold 6 or 7 litre's of oil,that's why they need it.Heaps of carbon and gunk to clean out.


Its awesome stuff, Just bout a can today for my Impreza RS..
Goes everywhere air and fuel goes :)

And try researching before you make statments like that.
Subarus only hold 4L non turbo and 4.5 turbo..Well the GDA series anywho.
I been told the reason the engines require this cleaner is because: Boxer motors can suffer from bad blow by and oil pooling around the valve inlets.
Think its just because of the orientation of the engine.

[beeza]

Yeah,it's cause the engine sits on the side,so the oil sits everywhere which causes gunk build up i.e. Carbon,unlike a normal engine where the bulk of the oil falls down to the sump and therefore takes longer to build up the carbon.

I thought they held 6-7 litre's.Damn,sounds like I might not have done my research properly.

Thanks for the tip.

[hisoka]

nah its very close to 5 litres for a ej20.

and um yeah alot of blowback when you up the boost or just thrash it in genral. so much blowback infact you will find oil in the intercooler.

install catch cans if you own a subaru, lol you will thank me later

[beeza]

Nice nice!

[mnc]

my one got sucked into my throttle body on my dc2r. I used a long thin stick of some sort and attached double sided tape at the end. I only did this because the plastic tube was visible when i opened up the throttle.

[beeza]

Good thinking!!

[beeza]

Well,I done it! lol

That sucker got sucked in on my neighbours camry when I was Suburu UEC it.

I spent 6 hrs trying to get the IM of only to learn U have to remove the engine for that.FUN FUN FUN.

If it was my car I would have just revved it through but being the neighbours it was a different story.

In the end that's what we did anyways and all good!

I broke one of the O-ring seals on the injector in the process,I didn't know that but.4 days later he came over and was like my car smells like petrol... :)

It was an easy find/fix.

Man,it's scary working on friends cars...

[TODA AU]

LOL... Stop touching cars...
You're not very good at it.

[beeza]

I ain't no TODA! :)

[jahniel24]

where do you buy that upper engine cleaner? might give it a try..lol

[beeza]

any suburu dealer mate,it's the bomb diggity!!

[grifty]

havent you learnt your lesson yet beeza? dont use that thin plastic nozzle!!

[vtecing]

my mates mum had a bird fly staight into the bonnet scoop on her wrx. When they popped the bonnet it was still mint. but dead.

[aaronng]

my mates mum had a bird fly staight into the bonnet scoop on her wrx. When they popped the bonnet it was still mint. but dead.

Yeah, the air filter did its job. Filtered the bird out.

[beeza]

LOL!!

Yeah,I'm not gonna use that sucker again grifty :)