Glad to help!

Thanks, will do!

Humble Mechanic does a video on this job. You might plan on getting new injector seals and an injector tool before you start. Mine leaked like crazy and I basically had to redo the entire job just to replace the seals ($20 from Advanced), the tool is less than $40 on Amazon.

@@muckleyj that's why it's dangerous to DIY, there is a lot of 100 bars fuel lines there and it can cause engine fire when it leaks.

@@vindieu yeah humans definitely need flame retardant bubble suits. Done my own garage door springs, household electric, plumbing (gas and water), tree cutting, and auto brakes. In general, it's pretty remarkable that I've lived this long.

@@muckleyj When I say dangerous, I was not concerned about you, but about your engine. An engine fire won't happen when you work on it, but when you drive it and it reaches temperature.

buy a sandblaster from harbor freight, and instead of sand use crush walnuts. its less abrasive and if any reminents end up inside the engine can burn it clean.

I had an old sandblaster but the walnut shells where a bit more difficult to find. I also found a guy on KZfaq that punched the blaster wand through the hose of a shop-VAC you can suck the blastings away at the same time you are blasting. You have to roll the engine to close the intake and exhaust valves as you move from cylinder to cylinder.

I'm not sure I understand your question. I had just bought the car and had no idea if it had ever been cleaned. I decided to clean the intake before it ever had a chance to mess up on me.

I'm sorry I do not. I've sold the car so it is impossible fir me to look.

Try this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpeSdq2nrdndgWQ.html

Probably. I did. I wasn't prepared to and just reassembled. It leaked fuel everywhere! I had to buy the seal and tool to install them and then take everything back apart. I was already experienced so 2.5 hours later I was back in business.

Did you get that bolt down underneath and behind the throttle body?

@@muckleyj I got it off!!! It was just stuck… it’s never come off so I had to pull on one side harder than I really wanted. Thanks for your video and help. It’s so nasty. So much carbon.

@@muckleyj so what does the injector tool do exactly? Going to replace the seals but my injectors stayed in the engine side of things.

@@muckleyj so I checked it out and since my injectors didn’t come out and are still seated I may just leave them be. Maybe

The injector tool provides a ramp to flair the white ring seals on to the injector and then there is a die which presses them back into the shape of the groove - nearly flush. I thought that I would avoid replacing the seals and ended up with a pretty bad fuel leak. Sucks cause you have to put the whole thing back together before you find out if it leaks. I think it was $20 for new seals and $20 for the tool. Totally worth it if means only doing the job once.

Yeah sorry Zoe that really wasn't the intention. It was more just to help describe how to get the intake off.

There are other videos out there that show various ways of cleaning/removing the carbon. The method I used was a sand blaster with crushed walnut shells and a shop-vac.

This video has more ideas than I used but also shows the shop-vac/walnut blast method near the end. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/is1_otOInc7KpYU.html

Sorry. I wasn't a big fan either, but the parts are cheap and usually pretty easy to replace.