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Old 01-09-2008
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cleaning MAF

How do you clean a MAF sensor? My 3.0 is idling rough but as soon as I give it some gas it runs fine. Some people said that they cleaned their MAF sensor and it that fixed the problem so I hope thats the same for me.


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Spray the wires inside it with electrical contact cleaner or there is a MAF cleaner spray on the market as well. Don't touch the wires mind you.. just spray them.

Also, what you describe sounds typical vacuum leak to me.

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use a electrical component spray, they leave no residue on the components
 
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I just used Brake cleaner. Seemed to work just fine for me as the code went away.
 
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Electric component spray or MAF cleaner.
 
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Spray the wires inside it with electrical contact cleaner or there is a MAF cleaner spray on the market as well. Don't touch the wires mind you.. just spray them.

Also, what you describe sounds typical vacuum leak to me.

Rich
yea I think it might be a vacum leak too. Their is a slit in the hose that goes from my intake tube to the valve cover :/ but im going to try cleaning the MAF sensor and see how that goes.

ryan
 
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