Clean the MAss Air flow Wire K & N Filter oil

[Richard Tanimura]

Brett,

Interesting observation about contamination coming from the engine side. Did
it come off a turbo or NA? What's this screen in the MAF? The ones I have
seen try to eliminate all possible restrictions to flow.

1. Some MAF's have a pyrolitic cleaning sequence where they heat up the wire
for a short time after shut down. Not all.

2. Some guys I know have used carb cleaner to clean the MAF. They said it
worked. Good stuff for gunk in the throttle body as well I'm told. YMMV.

Rich

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From: 200q20v-admin at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Brett Dikeman
Sent: den 7 november 2002 08:13
To: SuffolkD at aol.com; 200q20v at audifans.com
Cc: PeterBergin at aol.com
Subject: Re: Clean the MAss Air flow Wire K & N Filter oil


At 11:47 PM -0500 11/6/02, SuffolkD at aol.com wrote:
>Can you clean the wire?


Yes and no.  Some comes off, but since the wire is cleaned(courtesy
being heated to white-hot) every time the engine is shut off, pretty
much anything that isn't vaporized gets nicely bonded to the wire,
which I think is glass-coated platinum or bare platinum.  The wire is
very thin and you don't want to go frobbing it.

I have a dead MAF sitting around somewhere from a lister who sent it
my way, in hopes of maybe being able to clean it.  Didn't work.  I
got a little residue off the wire, but not nearly all of it.

All the contamination was from the -engine- side, if I remember
correctly.  We never figured it out.  There was a ton of oil built up
on the screen...again, engine side and only the side facing the turbo.

Brett
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