Originally Posted by jodysgarage

SUCCESS!
This thread should have been renamed "Bad TPS".
Chelios nailed that one.

I ended up buying a Haynes Manual (which I was a little disappointed in - This forum has been more help..)
and took the whole throttle body off.
It was quite the puzzle. One step at a time.

Once inside, you should have seen the GUNK!
Oh it was terrible. I used 2 cans of carb cleaner and got it cleaned up nice.
I also cleaned the EGR while I had it apart with carb cleaner.
I replaced the EGR and TB gaskets as well as the TPS.

It runs like it's supposed to! Wow.
Night and day. Solid idle. Good acceleration. Strong instead of weak feeling.
After test driving, I checked error codes: 1 - 1

It took me 5 hours because this was as deep as I have been yet.
There were moments I wished I hadn't even started.
And I dropped a screw TWICE and had to retrieve it the hard way.

But i learned a heck of a lot about this engine.
It takes a lot of the mystery out of it now.
And most of all there is a sense of accomplishment when you turn the key and everything is right.
I have a feeling I saved a chunk of change, too.

In closing, the guy at Advance told me that when they sit for a long period, the brushes in the TPS tend to go bad. This truck had sat before I got it, so there is the reason.

A big thanks to everyone that helped me out.

One last question...
After seeing how bad the intake was, I want to Seafoam it again to get in there deep where I could not reach. But I just did it a few days ago.
Do you see any harm doing it again this soon?

Originally Posted by jodysgarage

SUCCESS!
This thread should have been renamed "Bad TPS".
Chelios nailed that one.

I ended up buying a Haynes Manual (which I was a little disappointed in - This forum has been more help..)
and took the whole throttle body off.
It was quite the puzzle. One step at a time.

Once inside, you should have seen the GUNK!
Oh it was terrible. I used 2 cans of carb cleaner and got it cleaned up nice.
I also cleaned the EGR while I had it apart with carb cleaner.
I replaced the EGR and TB gaskets as well as the TPS.

It runs like it's supposed to! Wow.
Night and day. Solid idle. Good acceleration. Strong instead of weak feeling.
After test driving, I checked error codes: 1 - 1

It took me 5 hours because this was as deep as I have been yet.
There were moments I wished I hadn't even started.
And I dropped a screw TWICE and had to retrieve it the hard way.

But i learned a heck of a lot about this engine.
It takes a lot of the mystery out of it now.
And most of all there is a sense of accomplishment when you turn the key and everything is right.
I have a feeling I saved a chunk of change, too.

In closing, the guy at Advance told me that when they sit for a long period, the brushes in the TPS tend to go bad. This truck had sat before I got it, so there is the reason.

A big thanks to everyone that helped me out.

One last question...
After seeing how bad the intake was, I want to Seafoam it again to get in there deep where I could not reach. But I just did it a few days ago.
Do you see any harm doing it again this soon?

Originally Posted by jodysgarage

SUCCESS!
This thread should have been renamed "Bad TPS".
Chelios nailed that one.

I ended up buying a Haynes Manual (which I was a little disappointed in - This forum has been more help..)
and took the whole throttle body off.
It was quite the puzzle. One step at a time.

Once inside, you should have seen the GUNK!
Oh it was terrible. I used 2 cans of carb cleaner and got it cleaned up nice.
I also cleaned the EGR while I had it apart with carb cleaner.
I replaced the EGR and TB gaskets as well as the TPS.

It runs like it's supposed to! Wow.
Night and day. Solid idle. Good acceleration. Strong instead of weak feeling.
After test driving, I checked error codes: 1 - 1

It took me 5 hours because this was as deep as I have been yet.
There were moments I wished I hadn't even started.
And I dropped a screw TWICE and had to retrieve it the hard way.

But i learned a heck of a lot about this engine.
It takes a lot of the mystery out of it now.
And most of all there is a sense of accomplishment when you turn the key and everything is right.
I have a feeling I saved a chunk of change, too.

In closing, the guy at Advance told me that when they sit for a long period, the brushes in the TPS tend to go bad. This truck had sat before I got it, so there is the reason.

A big thanks to everyone that helped me out.

One last question...
After seeing how bad the intake was, I want to Seafoam it again to get in there deep where I could not reach. But I just did it a few days ago.
Do you see any harm doing it again this soon?

Originally Posted by jodysgarage

ymeski56: looking at the diagram, it appears that the idea is to slip the tube between the hose and the lip of the intake. But I don't get the"hook".
It looks like something the red straw slides into?
Is that something that comes with the spray version of Seafoam? I have only bought the liquid version...

Also, I assume you would want to do this with both intakes?

Thanks-

Originally Posted by jodysgarage

Picked up a can yesterday and rubber banded around it was the nifty new straw tool...
Wasn''t on the shelf at OReillys but I asked and he had it in the back.
I plan to do my chainsaw and lawnmower with what's left over!

Thanks again-

Originally Posted by Talmbla

So this spray stuff would be blown into the throttle body? I only have like 5000 miles on my engine but I didn't clean out the intake manifolds. Being able to spray directly into the throttle body would help.