Throttle Body Clamp

[96sc]

I was changing the air filter (stock intake) on my 96 3.8 and noticed there was no metal clamp around the rubber boot which connects to the throttle body. There are lots of clamps on the other intake rubber boots; clamp on the rubber boot which connects to air filter box, clamp on rubber boot which connects to "secondary box" (the odd shaped box mounted to the fan shroud), but no clamp on the rubber boot which connects to TB. I got to thinking maybe I took the clamp loose sometime in the past, and forgot to put it back on. So I looked at a 96 sitting on a dealers lot ... no clamp on TB.

This seems like a good way to suck dirt into the TB. My throttle body rubber boot is in good shape (not crumbling or dry), but even so, it twists around the throttle body when I pull up the air filer box while changing the filter ... so I know it isn't really tight.

Why no clamp?

[ October 18, 2002: Message edited by: 96sc ]</p>

[FirebirdGT]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by 96sc:
Why no clamp?<hr></blockquote>

It doesn't come with one, never did. Also no clamp on the Grand Prix L36 or L67.

Only a GM Powertrain engineer knows why.

[DEE97GTP]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by FirebirdGT:


It doesn't come with one, never did. Also no clamp on the Grand Prix L36 or L67.

Only a GM Powertrain engineer knows why.<hr></blockquote>

I do know the rubber hose that connect to by TB, has a groove in it that mated to the TB groove. After a year or two of drive, I had a hell of a time getting that thing off. I guess some are tighter than others.

DEE