Deleting the throttle body heater

[SGaynor]

Just to clarify:

When I said "Never a problem," I meant that with the extremes in temps, I never had a leak problem -expansion/contraction of the surfaces, bolts, gasket, etc.

 

[bendts]

When I did my rebuild and removed mine, it was warped - quite a bit. I took some med to fine emmory paper, put it on a sheet of glass and sanded it till flat. Installed with gasket and blue RTV - so far no leaks.

If its not flat on the mating surface it will leak.

 

[msggunny]

i quit using the gasket. I now take the lip off the plate with a surfacing stone and install them with Right Stuff. Never had a problem with any of them since i started doing that about five years ago.

I think i will try this, thanks!

 

[JUKE179r]

Bypassed mine in 2016 in Atlanta. Now in England and parked out in the elements where it gets below freezing, I've had no throttle problems.

 

[best4x4]

I had two stick nearly 2 years ago (one was on a friends P38 & the other was a customer's D2).

It had absolutely nothing to do with either one of them having a TBH delete. They both stuck in cold weather due to the TB plates being nasty! You could go WOT with them in your hand and they'd both stick open. Tore them both down, and removed the TB plate completely and smoothed it out around the outside edge and I cleaned the TB bore itself. Re-assembled everything and both no longer stuck open.

I would personally take your TB off and completely clean it every few years.

 

[toadermcgee]

I thought of making a heater to rap around the throttle out of 5/16” steel fuel line. I think it will take 24” to make a path that can lay around the body. Right now I’m looking for a way to make up the ends so hoses won come off.

 

[toadermcgee]

Made something total ghetto out of 3/8” copper line. I’ll use it until I get a replacement part.

 

[ahron]

When I did my rebuild and removed mine, it was warped - quite a bit. I took some med to fine emmory paper, put it on a sheet of glass and sanded it till flat. Installed with gasket and blue RTV - so far no leaks.

If its not flat on the mating surface it will leak.

That makes sense if the surface is not totally flat. Gonna check it out on our Disco right after we finished installing the parts from 4WheelOnline on the truck.