ISV Cleaning

[Phil Rose]

At 1:29 AM -0500 7/3/04, Brice Warnick wrote:
>Kneales post gave me something to do today for cheap.  Auto Zone has
>carb cleaner for 99¢ a can. So I pulled the ISV and sprayed it out
>real good. It is the original ISV and to my surprise it was extremely
>clean. I sprayed it anyway since I had it off. I took a thin flat
>screwdriver and opened the inlet  and took another thin screwdriver to
>hold it open

That method of opening the ISV a real "no-no" and is strongly warned 
against by Audi: never use something like a screwdriver to open (or 
to hold open) the ISV valve. The edge of that valve is rather fragile 
and easily can be damaged (causing the ISV to jam or work 
erratically); instead use something relatively soft, like a wooden 
pencil, popsicle stick, etc.

Phil
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Phil Rose
Rochester, NY
mailto:pjrose at frontiernet.net