65Raven65

My throttle body is sticking, so I thought it may just be gummed up so I cleaned it. It was actually really clean inside, but I went ahead and shot cleaner through it.

Upon closer inspection, there's an obvious worn spot somewhere, making it hard to open. There's a specific point where you have to get it to "click" past, then it frees up.

I'm thinking that all the cleaning in the world wont fix it, there's something actually physically worn inside that's making it hard to operate.

Is it time for a new one, or are there rebuild parts available?

The car has 196,000 miles.

BabyGT

Just head to local part yard and play around with them till you find one that feels smooth. Should be cheap enough. Not sure it's worth spending the money trying to rebuild one. I can't remember hearing of anyone rebuilding a throttle body come to think of it.

88 orangepeel notch

Holy Crap, that GT you just picked up has that many miles and still is that clean.

That does it……… I'm moving south !!!

65Raven65

I agree. I hadn't heard of rebuilding it either, just figured I'd check first.

Thanks!

65Raven65

Ha!

Well, either me or friends of mine have been into Mustangs off and on for a couple decades now, and I've only seen a clean stocker like this pop up one other time. It was an immaculate notchback that a little old lady drove. It was in way better shape than this GT I just got. It didn't even need paint, I cant remember anything at all being wrong with it.