Tip Of The Day! Clean your MAF!

[Darth Vader]

Yeah, you're saying it's inconceiveable someone would remove the inlet tube and spray brake cleaner into the maf tube on a running engine? You gotta get out more, man, lots of people think they need to clean throttle bodies and such and do that very thing....whatever the "proper" way might be.

When I add the stupid stuff I've seen to the stupid stuff I've done in 30+ years of modifying and repairing cars, it's a pretty large lexicon.....(freak)

Darth Vader

 

[Kain]

Yeah, you're saying it's inconceiveable someone would remove the inlet tube and spray brake cleaner into the maf tube on a running engine? You gotta get out more, man, lots of people think they need to clean throttle bodies and such and do that very thing....whatever the "proper" way might be.

When I add the stupid stuff I've seen to the stupid stuff I've done in 30+ years of modifying and repairing cars, it's a pretty large lexicon.....(freak)

Darth Vader

If anyone wants to spray brake cleaner onto their throttle body plate while running, they can be my guest. I was specifically referring to cleaning the MAF on this car using the method provided by the OP. Let's just chalk this up as another unspoken rule of common sense.

O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum.

 

[tuckaloe]

Are you folks disconnecting the battery when you do this MAF cleaning? Reason I ask is that while I've never cleaned my MAF, I notice the same sort of improvements everytime I disconnect the battery/reset the ECU. Car runs fantastic.

I wonder if the ecu reset is the partial or even primary cause of the noted improvement. Of course a MAF needs to be clean to do it's job properly, just curious...

 

[black_ninja23]

who carries this CRC cleaner???

 

[black_ninja23]

NM, i just checked Kragen auto parts...i'm gonna try this tonight

 

[Darth Vader]

If anyone wants to spray brake cleaner onto their throttle body plate while running, they can be my guest. I was specifically referring to cleaning the MAF on this car using the method provided by the OP. Let's just chalk this up as another unspoken rule of common sense.

O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum.

Amen, the common sense that I can be sure you possess, am semi-sure I have, too...anybody else, who knows, (spin)

Watch out for the wolves...protection needed....(drinks)

Darth Vader

 

[Bravnik]

Are you folks disconnecting the battery when you do this MAF cleaning? Reason I ask is that while I've never cleaned my MAF, I notice the same sort of improvements everytime I disconnect the battery/reset the ECU. Car runs fantastic.

I wonder if the ecu reset is the partial or even primary cause of the noted improvement. Of course a MAF needs to be clean to do it's job properly, just curious...

I didn't disconnect the battery at all. Simply cleaned my MAF.

 

[ms6acton]

great find doing in tomorrow after work

 

[mrjoshyman]

those of you who are seeing a difference, how many miles do u have?

ive got ~ 17,000 thus far...wondering if i should bother now or wait another 10k... or so

 

[Champloo]

Great tip! I did this last weekend with my oil change. I had a fresh tank and when I filled up the other day, I got almost 29 mpg when I usually get around 25. That's doing a mix of spirited highway and city driving.
I've got 33k miles and the sensor was really black. I'll check it the next oil change too to see how often it needs to be cleaned.

 

[Wurf]

I'd be even more inclined to check this more frequently if I were running an SRI or CAI with a performance air filter, especially an oiled gauze type. Good tip.

 

[TheMAN]

that's why mazda does NOT recommend the use of wet type air filters with the 3

 

[Wurf]

For the same reason, I'm not going to run the K&N that's coming with my new PG SRI. Instead I'm going to run an AEM dry flow.

 

[BoostedSpd6]

went out and got some of that CRC Lectra Motive cleaner from autozone, cleaned my MAF..put it all back together, the car idle's smoother..i couldnt really get on it because the local police were all over the main highway today..but good tip ill definetly be doing this every 10k..

 

[schmitty]

I cleaned mine today to. IAF was all sooty. Feels as responsive as it does after an ECU reset.

 

[karl hungus]

and don't forget to plug her back in or you she won't start and pop a p0113.