Lubricating the throttle body housing - sticky throttle

[3xpendable]

My Puma has a stick throttle pedal. Looking through the search pages on here I deduced its crud around the linkage on the throttle body based on what others said of cleaning that off curing it and the fact its only the initial movement thats sticky, once you get off idle its fine.

So in the short time I had on Sunday I put a bit of WD40 on the linkage but as its all around the back of the body access is hard. Is cleaning this properly a 'body removal' job?

Thanks

 

[YOG]

You normally need to clean off the deposits around the "Butterfly" flap to stop the "sticking".

Throttle Body 01

• YOG
• Apr 21, 2013

Throttle Body 02

• YOG
• Apr 21, 2013

 

[3xpendable]

Makes sense now! So yes I have to take it off by the looks of it. How is best to clean the deposits? Scrape them off?

 

[Wild E. Coyote]

carburettor cleaner and a rag

 

[3xpendable]

Awesome Wiley, will try that as soon as I get some dry weather.

 

[yippeekiay]

Did mine in situ, just remove the hose and easy to get at

 

[3xpendable]

Thanks Yippee, god your avatar disturbs me!

 

[stu brown birkenhead]

i cleaned mine and cleaned the maf sensor whilst i had the carb cleaner out the sensor was rotten coverd in oil, works a treat on throtle response

 

[3xpendable]

Thanks Stu I'll take a look at that too.