If you have the usual goopy slime flowing down into the throttle body from
the lousy potting compound used on the early circuit boards, you are going
to have to dig it out with pure hand work - the only solvent that is any
help at all is acetone, and you must be very careful with acetone, as it
will dissolve most any plastic quickly. It won't hurt metal, but it will
ruin almost anything else it touches!
If you just have carbon/soot and oily deposits in there, normal spray type
carburetor cleaner does a pretty good job.
Once the headliner begins to fall, the only cure I have found is to take it
totally down, scrape all the loose stuff off the headliner support, and
replace the cloth with new cloth, using upholstery spray adhesive, as sold
in any auto upholstery supply house (I use Keyston brothers, but I'm sure
there are many others). Don't skimp on the quality of the spray adhesive,
use only the best - it is very expensive, but the cheap stuff doesn't do the
job!
Don't bother trying to re-glue the old headliner, once the surface of the
support structure begins to turn to dust, you can't make glue stick to it
for more than a week, no matter what you use.
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Schmidt" <consuper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Imperial" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 3:01 PM
Subject: IML: Throttle Body Cleaning and Headliner
> What is the best spray product for cleaning the throttle body on my 81
Imp?
>
> The headliner on the car is falling down what is the best fix?
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott Schmidt
>
> 81 Imp.
> 02 Stratus
>
>
>
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