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Offline Kelu

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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #50 on: September 02, 2010, 08:18:00 AM »
I have cleaned mine even was looking perfect condition, no problems before or after that.
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #51 on: September 02, 2010, 11:55:40 AM »
Thanks all for you inputs. I plan on getting my can of MAF cleaner today and go out and clean mine. I have been getting some oscillations in my throttle position (looking at dashhawk) while in cruise control but am not throwing any CEL's. Thought I'd start with the easy stuff first.
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #52 on: September 02, 2010, 11:57:35 AM »
I thought that was the whole point of cruise control was to oscillate the throttle for you....
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #53 on: September 02, 2010, 12:00:48 PM »
Very noticeable oscillations and having power loss issues at medium rpms. Car has been running fine up to this point.
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #54 on: September 04, 2010, 02:27:16 PM »
 I've  cleaned mine with contact cleaner twice  this summer. Doesn't hurt to spray it down. I find that it runs much nicer after a cleaning.  First time I ran into issues was I was getting very hard downshifts with my automatic and on another thread someone said clean the MAF.  Surprisingly that fixed the issue right away and I found the car shifting silky smooth , running better.  |Haven't a clue how the tranny software works with the ECM and MAF , just know a clean MAF makes it all work better.  So since that after about 1500 miles I noticed the downshifts and upshifts getting a little harder and sure enough cleaning the MAF , right back to normal.  Maybe it's more of an issue with the supercharged cars , they do run richer which might add to the contamination issue with the MAF.


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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #55 on: September 04, 2010, 06:50:48 PM »
Haven't cleaned mine in 54k. Still running great, but I notice my MPG is down on avg. 2mpg over the last 3mos. Was get 29.5 to 30.5 mpg on my 120 round trip to work. Now I'm avg. 27.5 to 28.5 mpg.

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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #56 on: September 06, 2010, 09:28:02 PM »
Will Carbon -Tetrachloride work just as well ?  I have cleaned 12 volt electric motors with this stuff running and lower it allthe way in container.
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #57 on: September 07, 2010, 09:25:01 AM »
Thank you everyone for your input. I still have not done this, but it is on my short list of things to do this week.
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #58 on: September 07, 2010, 12:47:19 PM »
Time for me to do this also, Pep Boys just around the corner. :drive:

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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #59 on: September 07, 2010, 05:45:53 PM »
Will Carbon -Tetrachloride work just as well ?  I have cleaned 12 volt electric motors with this stuff running and lower it allthe way in container.
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #60 on: April 30, 2014, 08:58:37 AM »
Whats the secret to unplugging the sensor connector?  It has a little white thingy in the middle of it.

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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #61 on: April 30, 2014, 09:30:03 AM »
Normally, the "white thingy" is the tab-lock.  Pull the "white thingy" out away from the connector, then press the (now freed) tab down to release.

HOWEVER, mine does not have a tab lock, so I'm not sure what you mean.  I can just squeeze the connector and pull it off.
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Re: How to clean Mass Air Flow sensor
« Reply #62 on: May 03, 2014, 08:19:55 PM »
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