Icv

[Laxpunk2006]

Hey my car is idling funny so I was gonna go ahead and clean out the ICV. I was looking on bimmerforums.com and found the way to spray TB cleaner in there without taking it out which seemed easy enough. Then someone said the 4-cylinder ICV's are extremly easy to remove and they got theirs out in about 5 minutes. Can anyone explain how to get it out, especially with pictures would be perfect. I'm technically able and could easily do it if someone told me how. I can figure this kind of stuff out, I just dont want to do it wrong and hurt something.

[CirrusSR22]

It's actually very easy to get at. It's pretty much sitting out in the open. (on the M44 at least, don't know about the M42) Here's a diagram.

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=CG83&mospid=47506&btnr=13_0402&hg=13&fg=15

If you take it out, it probably would be a good idea to buy a new gasket first (#10 in the diagram). You also might want to diconnect the negative battery cable before you do it, just to be safe.

[1rstbmw!]

I wish I would have found this thread before I took off my intake manifold yesterday.

http://www.318ti.org/forum/showthread.php?t=8930&highlight=problem