Instructions
Ok so i needed an oil change today so I started knocking that out. While I was waiting for it to drain I decided my IAC needed another cleaning since i was getting the searching idle again. As I was starting to pull it out I started poking around in the engine just making sure everything was looking ok, and beats me why I just decided to clean the EGR ports since I had read about someones being clogged. I figured I had never cleaned em and they were probably gonna give me trouble anyway. Well, I tried and tried to get that stupid pipe off from the driver side header to the flying saucer part and i just couldn't get it off. So I decided to just pull the entire throttle body (TB) and give it a good cleaning. So in effect, I turned a 5 minute oil change into a good 2 hour project. So i took so pics and hopefully this will help some people, and most importantly, ill use the thread as a reference for every single IAC problem that comes along cause i cleaned that as well.
Ok so lets begin
Ok heres the driver side stuff to remove And the passenger side stuff to remove. Most of it is pretty easy, the tubes are a tad tight so you'll have to tug em good to get em off, but for the most part its not bad. The flying saucer (ok shoot me, its an EGR something) was the hardest part for me since I didn't have a 10 mm deep socket, i only have deep sockets in standard. Since they are on really tight it took some innovation on gettin them off. I wouldn't recommend it so i wont even mention how i got it off, just note that deep socket metric is a must. The other part which i didnt take a picture of unfortunately, is the stupid cruise control cable. I don't use the thing so I almost cut it. The cable attaches to the throttle plate in one of the stupidest fashions ever. It's blatenly a bad design, and I say this, simply because I couldn't get the stupid thing off for the life of me. Instead I went to the actual cruise contorl box itself and removed it there, its a simple twist off piece similar to the child safety latches on antifreeze bottles, then just a cable catch. After you remove all the rest of the circled stuff, take out the intake tube like normal (just good practice, it's in the way anyway, if you can't manage to get the intake off, I would recommend paying someone to do this procedure for you, and you probably should stay away from items under the hood). Then the throttle body is held in by 4 8mm bolts. Actually i removed these bolts first before doing tube from the pcv to the TB, it makes it easier and I recommend you do the same. Once you take that last tube out you should be able to remove the entire throttle body. And the lower intake opening, nice and dirty