Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Branches E. Great Lakes Have a question about cleaning the throttle body!

I read somewhere in the forums about spraying CARB CLEANER into the throttle body, to clean out the carbon that might be robbing me of my performance. Car also seems to have a hard time starting atleast once a day!
I want to clean out the EGR ports but I was having a very hard time trying to find a new gasket(plenum)! So I just about gave up on that unless someone has a spare one?
About the CARB CLEANER!!!!Would that be right spraying it into the throttle body when the car is running or off? And will it cause the car to make alot of smoke when I start it back up and for how long for it to smoke?

ConTourST
'96 SE BLACK
ATX
THF
KKM
Dual exhaust
no resonator

while running

should not smoke to much

change oil soon after

He had it about right....Stazi just cleaned about 4 of them today. It might shoot out a little bit of black crap....but it's not a big deal, it's good if anything. You can do it while the car is running.