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Old Jul 18, 2012 | 02:04 PM
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I just replaced my throttle body and when I had the throttle body off I looked in the cylinders and saw a trail of black soot on top. Is this normal? Any help will be appreciated
 
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Badmutha welcome to the HDF . if you go to one of the tech forums here you might get an answer that way . Hope your question gets answered quickly
 
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