Hi, I'm cleaning my TB & IACV right now, and I was wondering if I could get any tips...

Am cleaning them with Brake cleaner, toothbrush, and special paper towels. The reason I'm doing it is because my car would stall as soon as I would come to a stop with my car, the RPM would drop very low, and the car would stop (Honda Civic 2001 EX 1.7), but as soon as I took the TB off I didn't notice much to clean (my first time doing this).

Basically a friend of mine used a scanner today and told me it gave him a P0505 code, and searching on the net, everything pointed to a bad IACV, now I'm not wild about buying a new one for now (200$ approx.), so I'm cleaning it, and I'd like to ask for any tips, and any other things I should look for on my car.

Here's some pics:








Sorry, but I have no knowledge in car maintenance whatsoever, this is my first time doing this actually, and every info I know I found in the last few hours reading forums online, thus, I ended up here. I'm also learning how to change the oil, and do a basic tune up as I'm writing this right now.

 

Make sure you bleed the air out the coolant system. I just went through the IACV on my Civic, I thought I bled all the air out but it kept stalling at idle. I went ahead and rebled the coolant system and all is well.

By the way, that is sure a lot gunk in the coolant passage. You may need to flush out your cooling system.

 

if you go to and AMS oil dealer, (some napa's) get this stuff called AMS power foam and use as directed and its AMAZING