For everyone who has been married 10 years or more you will appreciate this.

I spent the afternoon cleaning my throttle body and flame trap, and flame trap hose (that was all but block)and the hose that goes between the AMM and the throttle body while my wife painted our small guest bathroom. It is truly to small for two people but painting does not "bring us closer" as they say.

Can't believe how terrible my throttle body was.





And the bathroom turned out nice too.


At the end of day we were both happy.

Hope everyone enjoys Labor Day!

Hawk

Nice color to go with that beautiful woodwork.

House painting is a task which turns out differently for the big picture people and the detail folks. I suppose 240 maintenance is similar. As for the throttle body, I've seen a lot worse (and as you imagine have photos), but once switched to synthetic, most I ever have to do is wipe the blowby out with a rag -- it isn't sticky or caked on. Some will say it isn't the synthetic, but the frequency of oil change. I've only had a dozen years at this, and I'm beginning to think it is a little of both contributing to clean flame traps.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.

Art,
Thanks for the compliment on the paint, I'll certainly pass it on the misses.

I use Castrol conventional 10W30 in this car. The flame trap was actually pretty clean. The hose from the flame trap to the intake hose was pretty clogged up with coke. I generally change the oil at 3,500 miles. The car has 280K miles but does not use oil between changes. I actually checked and I had last cleaned that TB about 24K miles ago.

I also connected a hose to the oil separator and opened the oil fill cap. I blew into the hose and could feel the air coming out of the oil fill hole. Guess that means the separator is not clogged.

You can see why the 50s and early 60's cars just vented to crankcase to the atmosphere. I understand why we don't do that now. I know we had an old truck that had a pipe that carried the blow-by under the cab.

I will say, it ran and idled much smoother afterwards.

Hawk