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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Thu, 27 July 2006 05:54
 
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Great writeup!! Guess what I'm doign this weekend?!!!
...by the way. you DO have strong hands.. I mean look at them!! 
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Thu, 27 July 2006 08:17
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dude these are some awesome how-to's.. now people will stop emailing me about how to do this $hit! 
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Thu, 27 July 2006 08:25
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| Carlos wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 11:17 |
dude these are some awesome how-to's.. now people will stop emailing me about how to do this $hit!
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ya, i figure you so lazy to take any pictures for us 
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Thu, 27 July 2006 10:55
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the newspaper with the heads is messing with me...
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Thu, 27 July 2006 10:56
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| FluidGroove wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 13:55 |
the newspaper with the heads is messing with me...
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Sorry, I was lazy so I grab the closest pile of newspaper avail at the moment.
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Thu, 27 July 2006 10:59
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very nice write up...will rough idling be the only symptom of a dirty AIC valve? will a dirty AIC rob hp?
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Thu, 27 July 2006 11:01
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| BrianT wrote on Thu, 27 July 2006 13:59 |
very nice write up...will rough idling be the only symptom of a dirty AIC valve? will a dirty AIC rob hp?
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Ding Ding Ding.....also, incorrect gap plug will give you rough idle. No, it doesn't do anything w/ hp as it's only relate to *idle* process. See MAF how-to for hp.
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Thu, 27 July 2006 18:23
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So all of that grime was after only 38k miles? Well, im past due on that then, im about twice that. Nice write up
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Sat, 29 July 2006 14:47
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Thanks Warren, ur how-to's gave me something to do this morning...and the end result is a car that runs like new...by the way, this thing was filthy 
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Sat, 29 July 2006 15:46
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i will be doing this soon...
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Sat, 05 August 2006 14:08
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just bought the TB cleaner...do I just spray it down then wipe it out?
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Sun, 06 August 2006 05:53
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| BrianT wrote on Sat, 05 August 2006 16:08 |
just bought the TB cleaner...do I just spray it down then wipe it out?
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My wife has braces on her teeth and she has these little brushes that are flexible... after spraying the gunk a few times to soften it I used the brush to agitate it. it was small enough to flex to the bottom side of the valve and get everything sparkly clean.
Between the throttle body and the IAC i used a full can of cleaner.
Just be careful if you decide to open the poppet and clean the sealing faces 
Also, check out the 5 sided "allen wrench' plug they use on the end of that casting, I've never seen anything quite like it.
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Re: How to clean your Air Idle Control valve (AIC)
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Mon, 14 May 2007 10:59
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I just finished cleaning my AIC and TB today on both my car and my cousin's car. Her car has been having problems, so we're going to work on it more today. I will post pictures when I'm done.
Her car had 90k miles and it was really dirty. Mine wasn't that dirty at all at 40k. I haven't test driven either car so I can't comment yet on any benefit from the cleaning.
I just want to point out though, that everything was exactly as Warren said on my cousin's car (a phase 2), but on mine, which is a phase 1, the bolts holding the AIC in place needed an allen wrench to remove, not a 10 mm socket. I don't know if this applies to all phase ones, but I just wanted to point it out.
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