What is that rattle in my intake???

[ucmeflyby]

I have a rattle that is barely noticable coming from the airfilter(box.) If, however, I take off the airfilter assembly, and I'm looking at the throttle butterfly w/engine running the rattling is very much louder, what might it be?

[ucmeflyby]

C'mon, someone has to have an idea here!

[mw02]

Take if off and see if something is broken off inside. Its fairly simple to remove the stock airbox/intake.

[93v6firebird]

I have no idea... could the TB itself be loose? or the screen? is the throttle response normal? maybe its one of the cables?
describe the sound... rattling? is it like a marble inside a glass jar? or like two peices of metal clanking?? Im really at a loss for what this is...

[ucmeflyby]

Thanx, I'd mostly given up... I've removed the MAF screen, and with the intake pipe totally removed and the engine idleing, there is the sound like a couple of marbles bouncing around in the throttle body.

[mw02]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ucmeflyby:
Thanx, I'd mostly given up... I've removed the MAF screen, and with the intake pipe totally removed and the engine idleing, there is the sound like a couple of marbles bouncing around in the throttle body.<hr></blockquote>

Thats not good. Take it to mechanic.

[Supersix]

It might just be the sound of air being sucked into the throttle body. Mine just sounds like the "Forced Air" ram air kit on Corvettes. Sounds sweet to me.