Oil in the throttle body...

Took my air intake off my pb lump today to get at the rocker cover and found this...



I'm guessing this is not healthy....any ideas?

clean it out with carb cleaner or petrol and see if it comes back,if not then all is well.

i_am_me wrote:clean it out with carb cleaner or petrol and see if it comes back,if not then all is well.

ahhh good good, I did that today so I'll check it in a day or so and see how it looks

Thanks

You'l always get a bit of oil vapour in there, I bet thats years worth thats accumulated in there. Mine currently looks like this

ooooo...look at the shiny ... I cant rememeber it been this bad when I had if off last time (before xmas) but maybe I was focusing too much on the fuel pissing out the bottom of my car

The way the crankcase ventilation works it'l always allow oil vapour to go through the inlet and be burnt off, but a big build up like you had is bad for performance. A smooth and shiny throttle body allows more air to enter and more quickly, thus more power and better throttle response

adi wrote:The way the crankcase ventilation works it'l always allow oil vapour to go through the inlet and be burnt off, but a big build up like you had is bad for performance. A smooth and shiny throttle body allows more air to enter and more quickly, thus more power and better throttle response

Which is what I have after I've cleaned it Lets see how long it lasts though :S

A healthy engine should take years to build up like yours had I would have thought. If not the flying saucer could be at fault, or your rocker cover could be missing its gauze

adi wrote:A healthy engine should take years to build up like yours had I would have thought. If not the flying saucer could be at fault, or your rocker cover could be missing its gauze

It has the gause on it...I'll see if it builds up in a week...go from there

engine looks to be breathing heavy. hmmm.... just keep on checking up on it mate. mine breathes a bit heavy but an overhall will sort that

if the engines breathing heavy, take the crankcase breather pipe off the air box and put it in a catch tank

or if you dont want to spend any money get an empty lucazade bottle and put it in that, make surr you put some holes in the top of the bottle and block the hole on the air box

digifants dont like it when the breather is disconnected(mine doesnt anyway)
but you could route it to a catch tank to collect the oil and then back into the air intake.
would stop most of the build up without disconnecting the breather.

i_am_me wrote:digifants dont like it when the breather is disconnected(mine doesnt anyway)
but you could route it to a catch tank to collect the oil and then back into the air intake.
would stop most of the build up without disconnecting the breather.

ah though it was k-jet with the shape of the TB

my bad

thank you everyone for the feed back

I cleaned it out a while back and it hasn't been back since so must of just been years of build up