Ford Freestyle Throttle Body Removal and Cleaning

so the only tools we're going to need for this is some sort of throttle body cleaner an old toothbrush a 5 16 or 8 millimeter socket with an extender bar a ratchet and a flat head screwdriver so i've already cleaned this and i'll show you how i did it in just a moment but the first thing that we did is we went ahead and removed all of the wires and tubes to our uh air intake here so the first thing we did was we unplugged this guy was right here you just slide this red piece down and sometimes you might need a flathead screwdriver to fit in the other end there's a little tab that it connects to on here the next thing we did was take this hose off right here we also took it off here just to set it off to the side in case we wanted to close the hood and then we took this hose out right here and just popped it right out like that went ahead and popped these loose and we just got this all out of the way and set it off to the side so the next thing you're going to do is you're going to look down in here and this is where your throttle body is going to be it's going to be just like this you have two screws in the top there and then down at the bottom you have a screw in each corner right there and there you're just going to use your 5 16 or 8 millimeter with the ratchet to go ahead and get those out you're going to go ahead and take it out and after you undo the bolts you're going to take this off this will be plugged in to the side right here again you just slide that little red piece down and we had to use a flathead screwdriver right on this piece right here it did not want to come off without doing that so we went ahead and took that right off and now we have it outside of our car so we can clean it so what we did is we have plenty of rags ready as well go ahead and spray the toothbrush with the throttle body cleaner you don't want to spray the throttle body cleaner directly inside but you can spray a rag or a toothbrush with the cleaner and then we went ahead and cleaned everything this on mine was pretty gunked up it was black all on the rims here and then all along the butterfly plate right here that was all nice and gunked up so the nice thing about this is this is held by a spring it's not a motor so you can go ahead and open it up so you can get it open like this and that way you have uh room to reach everywhere with your toothbrush we know how to open it up like this and what we did is we stuck a rag right in here so that it doesn't close all the way so we have a nice plate on one side flip it over switch the rag around and then we can clean the other side to where it's nice and shiny like this the next thing that we're going to do is going to be to reattach everything and we're just going to go in the backwards order of what we did we're going to go ahead and put that on put our four bolts in and look like this they're all the same put our full bolts in go ahead and reattach the wires here then reattach the air hose oh we forgot one thing you do need to use a flathead screwdriver right here on your air hose right here and then there's also actually you don't have to take off the other one you just have to loosen this one just to get that off of the uh throttle body here one other thing again is you might want to take a rag and go ahead and lightly clean in here you want to be careful in doing this because there is a gasket right here we don't want to rip or punch that out we want to make sure that we leave that gasket alone or just wipe it very lightly but right in here is pretty gunked up on mine as well so i went ahead and wiped that down i might wipe it down again with some throttle cleaner but that is plastic on the inside so we want to be careful with doing that the main problem i was trying to mitigate here and hopefully this fixes it not mitigate but fix here is that whenever i was at an idle it was not idling at an even speed and it was trying to lurch forward whenever i was just coasting and that is not a fun thing to have when you're trying to park so that's what i went ahead and cleaned the throttle control body we're gonna hope that fixes it

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Length: 3min 44sec (224 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020