Originally posted by mercman:
You donâ??t have to clean a MAF unless you are using one of those fancy oil soaked air filters. You can test the MAF with a digital volt meter. The procedure is in the Haynes manual. At idle you should have about .7 to .8 volts and the voltage will increase when you rev the engine. If it does this itâ??s working. The MAF is sensitive (small wire) and can be damaged by cleaning.

jeff




That is totally untrue, you can ask almsot any CEGer. Things get dirty overtime and needed to be cleaned. So far mine has had to be cleaned three times and everytime it made the CEL go away.

So to the original poster yes it does it need to be cleaned, use some NON- residue eletric cleaner and open your air filter box. Remove the air filter, looking up into the tube you will see a gray wire spray that thing and the area that is gray surrounding it.