Cleaning Your Mass Airflow Sensor

I heard from this guy at Jiffy Lube that they had a similar problem with a cold air intake only it was a Mustang and when water got in it studderd just like my Eclipse. He told me that they used some brake cleaner on the Mustang Mass Airflow Sensor and it cured the problem.

He also suggested that too much air could be going in and making my engine run too rich. But I had to disagree with him because before water got inside my intake and into my engine the car ran fine and well above my expectations.

So anyway what is the best way to clean a Mass Airflow Sensor? Mine looks clean but I could be wrong...

The best way to clean an airmass sensor is by its self cleaning function which heats it up to around 1000 degC.

When using brake cleaners or other similair solvers you can if you're not careful break the wires in it.

As long as the ECU can measure the amount of air entering the engine it will give fuel for that. However, airmass sensors are sensitive and can easy give wrong readings if the air is disturbed.

What is this "self cleaning function" that you mentioned? Could you explain that further?

When you shut your engine off the wire in the airmass meter is heated to approx. 1000 degC which clean it from deposits. All sensors may not have this function.

1000 deg C? What magical world do you live in that a wire could be heated up that much and disperse the heat fast enough as not to melt something around it. If this is possible please do prove me wrong but i just can't see it

1000 deg C? What magical world do you live in that a wire could be heated up that much and disperse the heat fast enough as not to melt something around it. If this is possible please do prove me wrong but i just can't see it
Isn't platinum great metal? It doesn't melt for another 800 degrees but it's also inert in air at those elevated temperatures.