Safe to rinse TBI head with Gasoline?

[DOCTORBILL]

I took the Top half off my '93 Metro's Throttle Body.

It is absolutely filthy with dirt and oil.

Can I safely rinse it off in Gasoline w/o damaging the Fuel Injector
itself.

It is all oily and is exposed to gasoline anyway.

I just don't want to damage the electrical fuel pump itself.

BTW - will rapping on the two Phillips Head screws to loosen them
damage the electronic fuel injector. The screws refuse to turn!
I'll need to rap HARD !

DoctorBill

[DOCTORBILL]

I have always wanted to buy an Impact Driver, but thought it would
not really be necessary.

So today, I will go to Harbor Freight Tools and buy a Chinese
impact driver for screw bits. Maybe a few "wacks" with that will
either break them loose or break them!

I like your idea of heating the screw with a soldering iron.

If I could only get some penetrating fluid down where the screws are
binding, it would help! But that part is inaccessable....

I can't wait to get this baby back together and see if it will run.

Seems quite a lot of folk have this bullshit problem with their Geos -
either the Metro or the Tracker. The engine just starts acting up
w/o any apparent reason....

DoctorBill

[sbiddle]

Originally Posted by DOCTORBILL

I have always wanted to buy an Impact Driver, but thought it would
not really be necessary.

So today, I will go to Harbor Freight Tools and buy a Chinese
impact driver for screw bits. Maybe a few "wacks" with that will
either break them loose or break them!

I like your idea of heating the screw with a soldering iron.

If I could only get some penetrating fluid down where the screws are
binding, it would help! But that part is inaccessable....

I can't wait to get this baby back together and see if it will run.

Seems quite a lot of folk have this bullshit problem with their Geos -
either the Metro or the Tracker. The engine just starts acting up
w/o any apparent reason....

DoctorBill

I bought a cheap impact driver from Harbour Freight about 20 years ago and I can't count the number of times that tool has come in handy. Those phillips heads are easy to round over with a regular screw driver, but the impact driver won't do that!

[DOCTORBILL]

Originally Posted by sbiddle

I bought a cheap impact driver from Harbour Freight about 20 years ago and I can't count the number of times that tool has come in handy. Those phillips heads are easy to round over with a regular screw driver, but the impact driver won't do that!

I just realized that I had bought one many years ago! I has never been
used!

BUT - like every tool I ever bought - one day it has or will save my ass!

Tools are always good.... The only bad tool I ever bought was that
box cutter that cut my finger! Baaad tool! Baaaad....

Harbor Freight has some of the damndest tools! I absolutely love to walk
thru there for hours checking out each tool and lusting after it...

And that smell of oil and brass and tooled steel. Ummmm.....

I stroll thru tool stores like women stroll thru the Mall for hours on end.
Never is tiring, either. Most refreshing knowing that there is a tool for
removing this or trimming that or bending those things....etc.

My problem is that if I don't use the tool fairly soon, it gets forgotten!

Tools - like diamonds are to the ladies! Gots ta have em....!
"Tools are forever.....forever..." to the music of DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER - James Bond movie....

DoctorBill

PS - it is 32 ° outside, rain mixed with snow and about 30 - 40 mph
wind howling thru the "Palouse" - the wheat country of Spokane County.
Not fit for dogs or deer.