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Originally Posted by ohhgourami
I was initially in there to take measurements for the air-oil separator connection on the plenum and opening on the valve cover. Said well since I got this open might as well clean the throttles.
I've got almost 40k on the car and it was pretty clean inside. There was some carbon dust around the butterflies but nothing major. As you can see, the top of the valves are completely clean.
Then I realized one of my TVA's were seizing up so then I had to take out the TVA's to clean too. I made the mistake of putting teflon grease on the replacement gears which ended up gumming up from the high temps.
Here's my replacement UKarauto (ebay) gears after 5k miles. I see absolutely no wear. I did preventative maintenance, not after the car started throwing codes.
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Cheers mate, interesting. So..you hade to take out the TVA again due to the teflon grease to clean that off? The one you bought is still teflon/plastic right, any reason you didn't go with the brass from the UK guy? Just learning as we go...