Ok. I'm gonna do it this weekend. I've been busy this week (found a chick that
likes trucks and stick shifts :), but I'll take the ridges off the top, thin the
blades, and polish everything. I've got some kind of suspension problem
causing a bad shuddering, so I'd better not screw up the tb and then HAVE to get
a V8 one :)
Mike S.
93 Dak V6 5-speed
"Bernd D. Ratsch" wrote:
> Liability.
>
> One word of caution...if you've never done any porting work...don't try to
> modify the TB by yourself. All it takes is one slip with the grinder/dremel
> to really screw up the bores. If you can, take the TB to a local machine
> shop and have them do the milling/grinding for you.
>
> (I do have experience porting/modifying carbs and heads so please be careful
> with the hand grinders on your TB's...one slip and $100+ later for a new TB)
>
> - Bernd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: RE: TB modifications
>
> So I have a question... If smoothing out the throttle body makes such a
> good difference, how come they don't come that way out of the factory? I
> can understand it being too expensive to produce them with an ultra smooth
> finish, but couldn't they make 'em closer to what we're doing to them? What
> are those ridges supposed to do anyway? Someone said they are
> over-engineered... For strength I assume? Or for sound baffling? More
> like Tod baffling...I can't figure it out. Is there some risk in taking
> them out?
>
> Anyway, this mod sounds like something I want to try.
>
> This list sure is expensive... I wasn't planning on doing any mods. Now I
> have a growing list of them...and I don't even *have* a Dakota yet! Twenty
> days since my order...and counting.... -Tod
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