Nail Polish, your car's best friend

[Ric]

Saved another buddy $400 by a $2 bottle of clear nail polish :aigo:

His coil packs were cracked on his 94 supra TT, and the other day the car just wanted to misfire all the damn time, almost not driveable.

So we took the coils out, and I spent a good 30mins with cleaner and a bottle of clear nail polish and filled in all the cracks on them.

Put the car back together, runs like a champ. The idle is dead smooth and runs great under boost.

 

[becauseican]

Nice tip, I used some JB weld on my cracked coils and it worked great too.

 

[Satan]

Where are these cracks? Any pics? Looks like it's something common enough to run into, right? Thanx!

 

[Ric]

Its a very common JZ engine problem.

Its on the top of each coil pack, mainly around the "feet" where the screw holds them down, and around the word "Japan" on the side.

My friend had cracks in his to where it was as wide as a piece of paper.

 

[OneJSupra]

Good tip Ric, I will add it to my 1J tech tips. Learning as you go and live with the 1J.

 

[di_rosa]

yeah, i spent the time and did the same thing with epoxy. one thing i missed the first time is that on 2 or 3 of my coil packs, i have cracks along the bottom shaft of the coil pack, like where the blue boot sits on and connects to the plug. i pulled those off, and i have a crack about 1.5" long and about the size of a sheet of paper. so i gotta go back and nail polish that as well.

 

[annoyingrob]

I did this with Epoxy about a year ago as well, worked great.

I like the nail polish idea though. It's thinner, and easier to work with.

 

[Adrian98]

toyota gasket seal works fine

 

[becauseican]

I dont think I have ever seen a 1jz coil that wasnt cracked.

 

[johnathan1]

I use nail polish ALL OVER my car...lol...I love the stuff.

 

[mattjk]

mine aren't cracked

anyhow, enamel is a great insulator.

 

[Mr.PFloyd]

I use nail polish ALL OVER my car...lol...I love the stuff.

:runaway: :momaru:

 

[Adrian98]

I dont think I have ever seen a 1jz coil that wasnt cracked.

my buddy's sc has a 1jz in it with about 80k miles. not one of the coil packs is cracked. maybe because he follows the 6500rpm red line his tach say?

 

[t4boost]

I had no idea nail polish would fix a cracked coil, I will definatly remember that one.

 

[annoyingrob]

my buddy's sc has a 1jz in it with about 80k miles. not one of the coil packs is cracked. maybe because he follows the 6500rpm red line his tach say?

Ewww, 6500?

 

[Ric]

6500? lolz.. I rev mine on a daily basis to 8000

 

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