3.4 Throttle Body Bypass

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*3.4 Throttle Body Bypass How-to*
The WHITE ARROW Points to the THROTTLE BODY The RED ARROW points to where the two tubes are now joined by the 3/8th connector The GREEN ARROWS points towards the locations where the two tubes were originally connected What you will need.... Flathead screwdriver, pliers, 3/8th male-male connector, hose clamps optional, rubber caps to plug open tips on TB optional Total Cost: $3.13 2 hose clamps and connector	click on the image to enlarge Doing the tb bypass really isn't that hard.... only took me about 10 minutes total from start to finish. Heres just a few steps that you can use, hopefully they help out. 1) Use a flat head screwdriver to loosen the hose clamp that holds the air intake to the throttle body, unplug IAT sensor and then remove the air intake from the throttle body and lay it on top of the plenum. 2) Use the pliers to loosen the C-clamps that attach the 3/8th inch rubber tube to the throttle body * in the pic they're the upper 2 green arrows* then slide the c-clamps back to remove them from the tube. 3) Now use the pliers to slowly rotate the rubber tube back and forth to break it free from the throttle body, then slide them off. 4) Use the 3/8th male-male connector that you purchased to now connect the two rubber tubes together. where red arrow points The connector I used was actually a brass 3/8th connector I picked up at a local hardware store, it was in the plumbing section for 2 bucks. All I had to do was slide each end on to the connector until they met, they slide on easily but trying to pull them apart is difficult which is good of course! 5) Using the hose clamps are optional, I felt that the two were connected well enough to not worry about it but you can always do it to be on the safe side. I turned my car on and left it on for several minutes to test it out and make sure there were no leaks which there weren't 6) Now just reconnect the air intake to the TB and tighten the hose clamp good and reattach the IAT sensor 7) Something you may want to do while you have the air intake off is clean out the throttle body, I picked up a can of TB Cleaner Make sure its TB cleaner and NOT Carbuerator cleaner! Turn car on, then spray TB cleaner into tb while opening and closing the butterfly use the small brass piece to open and close tb, denoted by orange arrow in pic above repeat this process 10 seconds spray, 10 seconds no spray, 10 seconds spray, 10 seconds no spray, repeat this until can is empty. This should clean out your TB nicely, mine was rather dirty before I did this, as you can see :).
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3.4 Throttle Body Bypass How-to

The WHITE ARROW Points to the THROTTLE BODY
The RED ARROW points to where the two tubes are now joined by the 3/8th connector
The GREEN ARROWS points towards the locations where the two tubes were originally connected

What you will need....

Flathead screwdriver, pliers, 3/8th male-male connector, hose clamps *optional*, rubber caps to plug open tips on TB *optional*

Total Cost: $3.13
*2 hose clamps and connector*

*click on the image to enlarge*

Doing the tb bypass really isn't that hard.... only took me about 10 minutes total from start to finish. Heres just a few steps that you can use, hopefully they help out.

1) Use a flat head screwdriver to loosen the hose clamp that holds the air intake to the throttle body, *unplug IAT sensor* and then remove the air intake from the throttle body and lay it on top of the plenum.

2) Use the pliers to loosen the C-clamps that attach the 3/8th inch rubber tube to the throttle body * in the pic they're the upper 2 green arrows* then slide the c-clamps back to remove them from the tube.

3) Now use the pliers to slowly rotate the rubber tube back and forth to break it free from the throttle body, then slide them off.

4) Use the 3/8th male-male connector that you purchased to now connect the two rubber tubes together. *where red arrow points* The connector I used was actually a brass 3/8th connector I picked up at a local hardware store, it was in the plumbing section for 2 bucks. All I had to do was slide each end on to the connector until they met, they slide on easily but trying to pull them apart is difficult *which is good of course!*

5) Using the hose clamps are optional, I felt that the two were connected well enough to not worry about it but you can always do it to be on the safe side. I turned my car on and left it on for several minutes to test it out and make sure there were no leaks *which there weren't*

6) Now just reconnect the air intake to the TB and tighten the hose clamp good and reattach the IAT sensor

7) Something you may want to do while you have the air intake off is clean out the throttle body, I picked up a can of TB Cleaner *Make sure its TB cleaner and NOT Carbuerator cleaner!* Turn car on, then spray TB cleaner into tb while opening and closing the butterfly *use the small brass piece to open and close tb, denoted by orange arrow in pic above* repeat this process 10 seconds spray, 10 seconds no spray, 10 seconds spray, 10 seconds no spray, repeat this until can is empty. This should clean out your TB nicely, mine was rather dirty before I did this, as you can see :).

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