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you know a good test would be to put an ounce of water in the bottom of the intake manifold and to see what happens.
knocking is a good theory. Keep your egr system clean and especially the passageways to cylinder 1 and 2 and keep your testing going boys. At a...
For what its worth I don't get start up knocks ever no matter how i run my car with a pcv system that isn't connected to the intake anymore. That...
It's crazy that this only really happens in our cars because of the 13:1 compression ratio. Even though the atkinson cycle lessons it, they can't...
Typically if you wait until the check engine light comes on thats more or less when the head gasket has had timed to fail completely. I'm assuming...
Why? did it fail? Does it throw A CEL failure code like the engine coolant pump does when its about to fail?
Over 200k 5k syn oil changes result in another 20 oil changes. For me using oil i buy from walmart and a toyota catridge is less than $30. So we...
Fair enough. Like a timing belt every so often on the old cars. We all just need to learn how to take care of the old stuff and keep it going. A...
Its pretty much a free car at this point. Why would you get rid of it? Drive it until the thing won't maintain the speed limit anymore or blows...
since cylinder 1 is the one losing egr flow and killing these engines is there a way to monitor it since the car has no idea? i see that we keep...
yup possible. As they die internally the connection lessons and the available charge lessons. so as the car tries to use them and charge them most...
In case you are an electronics nerd, just know it isn't "a battery" its a bunch of them together. This is a good thing as if you are a pro tink...
Better start saving up some money for some HV battery work. In all seriousness though... Good god dude! Those are the highest battery temps i...
Looks like it has improved pretty well. The can has been catching a lot of water vapor around town and no oil at all so that has been interesting...
1st gen ls400 everyone needs an egr delete because it clogs. 2nd gen ls400 has vvti based egr. Never actually heard of one failing from egr or...
not extremely necessary to take it out, you can clean the valve with it in. clean in and around push down on it etc...
I wonder how the car would like post cat EGR since that was their solution before deleting it entirely.
Number the spark plugs and give us a picture. It'll be interesting to see someone who is doing our new adjusted maintenance schedule from the...
The new Toyota T24A-FTS has no seperate egr system so thats nice. I think they know EGR systems don't work and its better to just use a larger cat...
Good stuff man. I love hearing about home efficiency stuff. Now that we are finally getting hit harder than the rest of my area on utility bills...
