What the heck is a throttle body? We have a 2007 Toyota 4Runner with 85,000 miles and a 2011 Toyota Venza with 45,000 miles. Our Toyota dealer is pushing us to service the “throttle body.” I agreed to ...

Boy, do we get questions about the need for a throttle-body cleaning. Most come from people wondering whether the work is needed or the service shop is just trying to reach deeper into their pockets.

The throttle body is a housing with a valve that regulates airflow into an engine’s intake manifold. The throttle body resembles the base of a carburetor, and some low-cost fuel-injection systems had ...

Somewhere in the annals of hot rod history someone decided to toss a bigger carb-uretor on an engine for more fuel and air, and thus more power. Sounds like a plan to us. The modern equivalent is to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The throttle body is a vital component of a fuel-injected internal combustion engine. It has a pivoting butterfly valve or throttle plate to ...

The throttle body controls airflow into an engine. For fuel-injected engines it’s usually housed between the air filter and intake manifold. Keeping this component clean can help your vehicle deliver ...

Your average new car has a throttle body and an intake manifold. The engine sucks in air through the air filter before it passes through the open throttle body and into the manifold. From there, it ...

A few years ago, Toyota was in the news for a major safety issue with a number of their passenger vehicles. Seemingly at random, certain cars were accelerating without concern for driver input, ...

You might already know that gasoline and diesel engines both operate using the same four-stroke cycle: intake, compression, power, and exhaust. However, a key difference between gas and diesel engines ...

Everyone here is guilty of letting their throttle body go unloved for far too long. Heck, some car owners might never clean theirs. Throttle bodies are just one of those things that can live at the ...