Cleaning the IAC (Idle Air Control) Valve--how to? Options

[mnwolftrack]

My '94 GT was having trouble holding idle this morning right after a cold startup. It would die unless I held the gas and kept the RPMs around 2000. If I let off the gas, the RPM's would drop to around 200 and then it would sputter out and die. After about a minute, the problem went away.

According to some research on this board, it's the idle air control valve. I read some references to people stating they were going to clean it or did clean it, but I didn't see any information on how to actually clean it.

P.S. I just put new plugs in, and a cap and rotor. The problem above only happened this morning and about a week after I gave it the tune up. I have only owned this car a month, but I have noticed the idle seems to drift a little--sometimes it's idling around 500 and shakes the car a little when fully warmed up, and sometimes it idles just fine around 800 when fully warmed up.

Before I actually replace the IAC, I want to try cleaning it but want to see what others have done. Once I clean it, then I will re-check the timing.

[VavAlephVav]

technically you should replace most any gasket anytime you remove something. if that throttle body still has the nice metal gasket and not a paper one you can probably get away with reusing it.
The frog-face gasket is a rubber o-ring like gasket, you can get it even at the dealer for 5 bucks. The hard part is those brass Philips screws holding it in. If you're not real careful you'll end up drilling a couple of them out and replacing them.
I hate it when they use Philips for something like that instead of a hex key or just a damn hex bolt.