Heavily carbon-fouled throttle body bore and gasket seen from ab…

Top-down view into a throttle body still bolted to the intake, its bore and closed throttle plate caked with thick black carbon and the horseshoe gasket ringed with crumbling deposits on the bright aluminum flange. Dusty engine-bay hoses and a bracket surround the opening; a red date stamp reads 09-Mar-09 4:04 pm.

AI caption March 2009 · Photo 72 of 237