I just cleaned my MAF. Are you saying I should not have reinstalled the screen? Is it better not to have it?

 

The honeycomb straigtens out the air and reduces turbulance so it should be left in otherwise think of a tornado at the maf sensor that cant get by it.

 

yea my tires are good i just checked them ant the at like 32 just like the door says an i allready did the holes in the air box but i have heard bad things about taken the screen out of the maf sensor lol how should i go about cleaning the the intake an stuff with out taring it apart lol

 

Just remove the plastic intake runner from the throttle body. Its one hose clamp, a thumb screw, and it lifts off. Then just use carb cleaner and clean all around the butterfly plate. Thennnnn after that, do a seafoam cleaning!

 

i have heard of the seafoma thing but im not sure how to do it an dose it really do any thing lol

 

About the only thing that removing the screen will accomplish is an erratic MAF reading to the PCM. It is in there for a reason. Why so many people are lead to believe that they will get ANY benefit from removing it is beyond me.

I have actual scans from side by side runs that I had made in my Bravada one run with the screen removed and another with it installed. The MAF frequencies were bouncing all over the place with the screen removed and along with this, the IPWs were jumping around as well. With the screen in, the MAF frequency was steady for a given engine RPM and throttle position and the IPWs were much more consistent. And there was no appreciable difference in WOT performance.

Pertaining to seafoam, just run a search and you should find more information than you need.

 

The seafoam worked great. A must do.

 

whitch is the best way to put it in the throttle body or the vac line

 

I have cut up the air box and removed the screen on every 1996 and newer vortec that I have ever owned (5) without a problem. The screen isa restriction, there is no advantage to keeping it other than noise cancelation (although it does protect the delicate MAF sensors). I know that the engineers at GM have gone back and forth on this one for awhile now, the new trucks no longer have these screens.

 

I put some in the TB first. I poured it in and let it set a little. Started it up and stuck the PCV tube in the can and sucked it up. Yummy.

Then shut it down for about 5 min. The started it up and treated the neighbors to a mosquito fogging. The rest went in the tank. Been purring like a cat ever since.