Just a brief summary. I had an issue since I bought the car last month. When cold, it would start up and run just fine. After driving a while and it was up to temp, if I shut it down and went to restart, you would need to hold the pedal down for about 5 seconds at 1,000rpm's or so and then let off and it would stay running no problem. If you didn't give it gas, it would just die. It never threw up any codes whatsoever. I got the car relatively clean with 135K on the odometer.
Fast forward to today. So I bought the two cleaners for both the TB and MAF and a new TB Gasket, as well as a new air filter. I went down early and got everything taken apart starting with removing the MAF Sensor.
I gave it about 15 to 20 squirts of the cleaner and set it aside in a clean dry place for later.
Now it was time to remove the 3 simple 10mm nuts. I disconnected the throttle cables and bracket.
First roadblock: The lower left side nut that sits behind the left side bracket.
I wound up taking a 3/8 breaker bar and wedging it between the TB and the bracket and pried it back enough to get the socket on the nut. I needed to remove the other sensor that sits on the left side of the TB so as not to hit it with anything and that was my second roadblock. My son was down there helping me and dropped the extension that held my T20 Security Bit down between the bumper and inner valence! Needless to say it wasn't coming out no matter what I tried. I sent him to the hardware store where they charged him $3 bucks for one lousy tip! What a crook! We sell them at work for .50 cents! So I finally got the sensor out and remove the TB.
It was pretty nasty in the plenum side.
The TB side wasn't much nicer.
I gave it a good cleaning with a soft brass brush and rag and removed the butterfly plate to get in there good.
After about 15 minutes of scrubbing, I was content with how clean it came.
I scrubbed out the plenum side the best I could and installed the new gasket.
I re-installed everything in reverse order and checked all connections and vacuum lines.
This was the end result which I'm pretty happy with. It wasn't a bad job at all. Very easy for any mechanically inclined person to do and save a few bucks in the process.