"lonestranger" (lonestranger)
07/09/2015 at 14:20 • Filed to: None
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"lonestranger" (lonestranger)
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I’ll take that as a good sign.
I’m having MAF sensor issues, and I’m hoping that a simple cleaning will solve them rather than replacing the MAF sensor. My model (GMT800) having a dirty sensor must be a common enough issue for CRC to use that sensor on the label, right? We shall see.
UPDATE: Yay!
P.S. My new !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! MX Bluetooth is awesome.
DoYouEvenShift
> lonestranger
07/09/2015 at 13:45 |
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How many miles on your truck? Cleaning a dirty MAF results in one of the biggest gains of power, drivability and fuel economy. It even affects shift patterns for the dirtier ones.
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lonestranger
> DoYouEvenShift
07/09/2015 at 14:27 |
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Around 152,000 km (~95,000 miles), ‘04 Sierra 4.8.
I had been driving with a lit CEL (and corresponding poor running as you described) for months. Too cheap/lazy to get a code reader. I just took it for a long spin up & down the hills around town, and cleaning the MAF sensor fixed it. Yay!
Alfalfa Romeo
> lonestranger
07/09/2015 at 14:33 |
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In used to do this on my 96 Thunderbird monthly. I’d had it for nearly a year before I did it the first time, and the difference was ridiculous.
qbeezy
> lonestranger
07/09/2015 at 14:58 |
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Wireless ODB sensors, saving me trips to the dealer for 2 years.
Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey
> lonestranger
07/09/2015 at 20:43 |
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Side note.
MAF cleaner is rather flammable.
I’ve used it in a pinch as fairly decent firestarter.
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lonestranger
> Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey
07/09/2015 at 21:27 |
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Well, it does say “ EXTREME DANGER ” “VERY FLAMMABLE” right there on the front of the can.
I worked at a small VW dealer in the ‘90s. Our only shop furnace bit the dust one cold Canadian winter, and the owners thought it was a good idea to solve the problem with a couple of those“Heat Dish” space heaters placed on the work benches.
Whenever we got cold, we hit ‘em with some Brakleen (coincidentally, also from CRC).