Another level of smoooooooth! REF: rough idle ;)

Post 605733 by S60-UUB on 2013-05-14 10:32:31

Morning fellow ovlov chaps. Just dropping by to say " Holy mother of god does my car feel better now!". My S60 T's being running rough as a badgers §§§§§§§§ ever since I bought it really. Rough idling between 500-800 rpm when on tick-over at traffic lights. Since fitting the bad boy powerflow to it a couple weeks ago, it was really starting to grind me, while sat at lights the car would sound as you were sat revving the engine like G-unit in a lawnmower nova! Enough was enough! after doing some research and reading danny-R's MAF issues thread. I picked up on this link to youtube regarding cleaning the ETM unit. [video=youtube;obUAQNwQERI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obUAQNwQERI[/video] So Saturday afternoon I took the car apart. This lot. Made this hole. Which lead to this coming out and being cleaned up. (unfortunately I forgot to take the picture of it dirty. But believe me it was §§§§ up!) So after a couple of cups of tea, some swearing, scrapped knuckles and lots of carb cleaner. Optimus was back together and running sweeter than ever. Until next time. Yours truly, S60-UUB

Post 605735 by M-R-P on 2013-05-14 10:38:30

Bloody marelli throttles... at least the cleaning helped but those throttles are nasty things. Looks like you did a thorough job there mate, I only took off the pipe to the throttle when I cleaned mine but it's a fair bit smaller. The best bit is, like you said, the massive difference you get when you put it all back together :) Well done :) Car looks nice BTW ;)

Post 605741 by V70 Graham on 2013-05-14 10:56:33

Car does look nice, and runs nicely as well now, well done.

Post 605744 by S60-UUB on 2013-05-14 11:04:23

Cheers guys. :D

Post 605750 by Dangerous Dave on 2013-05-14 11:18:02

Glad you got it sorted :) Can't beat a bit of DIY mechanics :D

Post 605754 by S60-UUB on 2013-05-14 11:31:52

You sure can't bomb :) and the £400 odd quid it would have cost me at my local friendly stealers. And yes I only realised the barrier cream was right next to me until I'd finished. Still got grubby finger nails!