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YOUR RESEARCHCoolant went through throttle body...SOLVED!
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I try to practice safe wrenching so I always use a love glove when the throttle body is exposed.
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Hello everyone! I'm sorry if this has been covered before I didn't really find an answer to my problem, I've had my 996 3.4 for a year and a half now and about 8k miles on it, it's been completely reliable till today's morning when my alternator failed, anyway I was removing it and the coolant line right next to it broke when I barely touched it (20 year old plastic lol) the problem is; Coolant came out and some of it went into the throttle body down the intake! 😭 what do I do now? Will it simply get flushed down the exhaust or now I am in for a meaty bill in repairs? Thank you!
Your risking hydrolocking the engine if enough went down in to the cylinders. DON'T TRY STARTING THE ENGINE.
When you have finished your other work do this(this is what I would do, others will chime in on their ideas):
-Remove the throttle body and the cross tube it's bolted on to
-Get a cheap camera to look down in to the intakes of the cylinders
-'fish' out any liquid you can find in the intake and on top of the intake valves.
Then:
-Remove all spark plugs
-Remove the fuse for fuel pump
-Turn the engine over and let it pump out the coolant(if any) via the spark plug holes.
Then put everything back together and go.
2 words... Turkey Baster
That, or if you have access to a Mighty Vac, use that to remove the excess fluid.
Trace amounts should burn off on their own. You just really don't want there to be enough to potentially cause hydro-lock in any of the cylinders.
I've been around the world twice, and spoke to everyone once, but I ain't never heard of nobody getting no glass worth of antifreeze down their throttle body after braking that little plastic pipe! You guys are makin this up, seriously? I'm assuming the car was not running as you were removing the alternator and broke the plastic pipe, why then wasn't the throttle body butterfly closed as it typically is when the car's not running? When I broke my little plastic pipe extracting my alternator, maybe a dribble of anti-freeze came out, certainly not enough to spray a glass full down what should be a closed throttle body butterfly. Wait, this is a Father's Day joke, right?
Thank you so much for the advice guys I really appreciate it, I'm gonna start taking off the throttle body and go from there, hopefully everything will be alright.
Hahaha yeah a joke lol, I stated that I wasn't sure how much went through, probably way less than that but better safe than sorry, right? Of course the throttle body was closed, it still went through though. Thanks!
Sure! as advised I removed the throttle body got my small camera in there and realized it was actually not that much, it was trapped on the intake plenum before going down the manifold, so I got my wife to get her hand in there with some towel and dried it all! Inspected it again, completely dry! Car is running all good again! 😁
