Hi, all. I checked my flame trap for the first time today. I have 42K miles on the car. Well, guess what? There was no flame trap in there!!! No my car is not a turbo, yes I am sure there was no flame trap in the holder. I went to the dealer and bought a new flame trap, housing and O-ring for $8. I replaced everything and while I was in there I cleaned up a bit. There was a lot of gunk in the housing and on the air intake hose. I also noticed that the throttle body is pretty gunky. The car runs fine, but I am still thinking of cleaning the throttle body just for good measure and because it may have gotten more gunk in absence of the flame trap (am wrong here? Please enlighten me). So, my question is what's the best way to clean the throttle body? Take it off the manifold? Leave it on? If take it off, are there any gotchas? What solvent to use? I could not find anything about throttle body cleaning on Bay 13, so I am wondering if anyone here knows the best way to do it.


Thanks in advance, as usual and happy holiday!