MASS AIR FLOW SENSOR CLEANER
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Yes, on my GT when I got it, after removing the K&N filter. No idea whether it helped, but it didn't hurt.
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Remove MAF from car, hold over a stack of paper towels, hose down the venturi- tube-looking thing and the hot wires for a couple of seconds, let it dry, re-install. Not too close with the spray, the wires are pretty fine....
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My best friend has been "restoring" his Ferrari F355 for 8 years now, battling little issues here/there causing the car to run funny including: swapping MAF's, rebuilding injectors, replacing coil packs & wires, plugs, sensors, EVERY Single electrical connector in his twin-EFI engine bay (two ecus, wiring harnesses, dual sensors as one bank of the V8 is controlled by one EFI system, the other by the other).
Tubi headers/exhaust/cats, FAST dual wide-band monitoring, everything trying to rule out bad/defective components.
On a whim last week, he took a can of RB (sp?) MAF cleaner, cleaned both MAF's and ALL of his remaining issues were gone! He's amazed.
Tubi headers/exhaust/cats, FAST dual wide-band monitoring, everything trying to rule out bad/defective components.
On a whim last week, he took a can of RB (sp?) MAF cleaner, cleaned both MAF's and ALL of his remaining issues were gone! He's amazed.
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^^^ What Rob said. MAF --MUST-- be removed. The cleaner spray sits in the intake belly and makes the car pretty hard to start. I tried to cheat and found out the hard way.
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i read somewhere to use electrical contact cleaner
I wonder if it is the same thing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CRC-QD-Elect...item35b9a68a1b
I wonder if it is the same thing.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CRC-QD-Elect...item35b9a68a1b
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It -might- be, but the MAF cleaner is cheaper. I don't see any reason to second-guess the solvent manufacturers' choice of what they put in the MAF cleaner spray can....
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One of the few things in a can I have used that works, we now stock it in the shop. It is not the same as contact cleaner, carb choke cleaner. Use as described above, MAF off.
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There are plastic bits that hold the wires in there that do not do well with carb/choke/brake/electrical contact cleaners. Stick with the right stuff and be safer. IIRC, Wal-Mart sells the CRC-branded version of the MAF cleaner.
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Twice on the dyno we had perfectly good running, stock S4's there were running too rich. Both times fixed by simply cleaning the MAF.
Once time in-situ since the owner of the car did not want too remove more than the airbox. I handed him the can and said: "have a it".
Problem sloved & should be on the to-do list for regular maintaince.
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It is a problem on hot wire MAFs. They get crudded up and that insulates the wire giving incorrect readings. Also a problem on BMWs. Not so much on Audis as they fail fast enough they don't have a chance to go bad (at least on my A6).
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has anyone ever used a aerosal mass air flow sensor cleaner?
http://www.autobarn.net/maairflsecl1.html
http://www.autobarn.net/maairflsecl1.html