What in the hell have I gotten myself into?
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Well the weather was much more decent today so this afternoon I jacked the front end of the car up, threw some jackstand underneath and then crawled underneath it with a little flash light to find the oil leak. I look at the oil return line from the cooler, it's dry, so I'm really getting worried about the turbo oil lines. I look and it's dry, whew, relief, but where the hell did all that oil come from. I look up at the filter and see just a smidgen on there. I try to reach it from under the car and the transmission lines are in the way. So I go at it from the top. I removed the turbo heat shield and stick my hand down there and low and behold the oil filter is loose.::dunce:::icon_roll I tighten it up with my hand and that's it. Oil leak fixed. I then noticed coolant dripping from the lower radiator hose. Didn't feel like messing with that today, I need to get some new clamps that's all.
Ok, after that I jump it off from my wifes car and it fires up. I let it run till it warms up and the thermostat opens. I'm only running on 5 cylinders I think. It has a bad miss, so I need to diagnose that. I'm sitting in the car revving it and shoot it up to about 4000 rpms and let off the gas, I hear the turbo whining a little bit but it might be because I don't have the airbox on it yet so the afm is open. After I let off it it died, but cranked right back up and at warm idle it's around 600-650 rpms, somewhere around there. No oil pouring out this time.
Tomorrow I may try to tackle the differential swap. I might even throw the exhaust from the parts car on there so I can test drive it. We'll see.
Ok, after that I jump it off from my wifes car and it fires up. I let it run till it warms up and the thermostat opens. I'm only running on 5 cylinders I think. It has a bad miss, so I need to diagnose that. I'm sitting in the car revving it and shoot it up to about 4000 rpms and let off the gas, I hear the turbo whining a little bit but it might be because I don't have the airbox on it yet so the afm is open. After I let off it it died, but cranked right back up and at warm idle it's around 600-650 rpms, somewhere around there. No oil pouring out this time.
Tomorrow I may try to tackle the differential swap. I might even throw the exhaust from the parts car on there so I can test drive it. We'll see.
Congrats Ken........Free fixes are always the best kind.....especially if you didn't even have to put a tool on it.
Have you got good plug wires on it? Are the plugs new? Check to see that all of your injector clips are making a good connection. My white car had bad clip locks, and every now and then I would have to reseat one or two of them. If all that doesn't work, test all of your coils. With Christian putting your motor together, I'd suspect some of the parts you installed on the exterior. That's not to doubt your ability at all........I just know Christian has a lot of experience doing what he does.
Have you got good plug wires on it? Are the plugs new? Check to see that all of your injector clips are making a good connection. My white car had bad clip locks, and every now and then I would have to reseat one or two of them. If all that doesn't work, test all of your coils. With Christian putting your motor together, I'd suspect some of the parts you installed on the exterior. That's not to doubt your ability at all........I just know Christian has a lot of experience doing what he does.
Poodles;899671 said:
That could be at either end. If your locks are not all on at the coil pack that's a very good suggestion.
Ken, I believe I have a lightly used set of pretty blue NGK wires. I'd have to check them for a coil wire though, they could be N/A
Poodles;899671 said:
Hmm, I'll have to check that. I haven't been outta bed that long yet. :icon_bigg
ForcedTorque;899906 said:
Ooooh Realllly?
Let me know.
Well, I'm walking out the door about to FINALLY go do some birthday celebrating at the Hard Rock Casino. I'll check when I get home tonight..........if I can see straight.
I think I found the cause of the miss. Here's a video. I have a thread in the GTE Technicas section and Jetjock pretty much confirmed my suspicion.
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63403
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a227/gtsfirefighter/?action=view¤t=enginemiss.flv
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63403
http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a227/gtsfirefighter/?action=view¤t=enginemiss.flv
kotu100;901043 said:
No, not yet. I've got to clean my other one up and get a new cover and gasket and then gotta remove the power steering reservoir in order to get the old one out.
Well since the wind is blowing about 50 mph (seriously) and half of North Texas is on fire, I'm unable to work on my car. It supposed to be windy the rest of the week.:3d_frown:
Sure hope the fire stays away from my place.
Sure hope the fire stays away from my place.
Go outside and brave the wind just long enough to turn the hose on. Let it run for a couple of days to saturate the groud around your house. Leave hose close to the supra.
gtsfirefighter;902747 said:
WTF! You lie... I have not heard of any fires. :3d_frown: LOL yall went from freezing cold to fires? Well, it is Texas?
I laughed my ass off at that video. I had the same issue with the CPS wiring. My car never had idle issues but if you moved the wiring at all the car would die. As an quick fix I zip tied the wiring so there no way it could move at all. I had the part the next week but I didn't get around to fixing it for a year. lol It just never happened again. I eventually replaced it when I had the motor all ripped apart anyways.
I got fed up with mine and bought a new CPS and wiring harness from the dealer...
if you have to ask how much, you can't afford it :rofl:
good $1K later, but my wiring harness was completely hacked on that side of the engine since some dumbass thought it would be smart to leave the front heat shield off the exhaust manifold. Nothing better than touching wires and having them crumble...
if you have to ask how much, you can't afford it :rofl:
good $1K later, but my wiring harness was completely hacked on that side of the engine since some dumbass thought it would be smart to leave the front heat shield off the exhaust manifold. Nothing better than touching wires and having them crumble...