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Powershift posted:I found their e-mail on a complaint website and we went back and forth a few times this morning, They've accepted fault and will accept the return and cover shipping but... Ah. I haven't done the t-belt on mine, and certainly had no plans to replace anything else. I do find it interesting that the water pump and tensioner are the same for both engines - I guess that's Toyota for you. I mean, the 4AGE is technically a variant of the 4A line, so makes sense. edit: page snipe. Added quote for context.
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:53 |
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Perhaps I'm dense as heck, but is there some Canadian reason to not use Partsouq? Is it cost? https://partsouq.com/ I only ask because in a couple days I'm going to have my own 4AGE Corolla here: Seems like I can find all the parts I'd need at Partsouq. I'm also super used to doing this on account of importing.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 22:17 |
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I've never heard of them, but a quick look for stuff on my list, most of it isn't available Even basic stuff like spark plug wires and coolant hoses It's probably good to get part numbers for interchange though. There are a lot of ae86 specific sites that do have stuff at ridiculous mark-ups. It does have an air filter for $6 which is nice because they're oddly hard to find and expensive when found. It also does give a part number for the Jan 87+ accessory belt which was a headache. Just on the three belts would have saved me $100. Seems like a good tool to have in the tool belt.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 22:46 |
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Powershift posted:I've never heard of them, but a quick look for stuff on my list, most of it isn't available Even basic stuff like spark plug wires and coolant hoses Right yeah I meant for specifics like belts. There is also amayama and megazip, both typically having more parts availability than PartSouq but being worse in terms of ease of use, shipping, cost and ship times: https://www.amayama.com/en https://www.megazip.net/zapchasti-dlya-avtomobilej Though I have found PartSouq to be the best, especially in terms of shipping. Invaluable for diagrams and as you've pointed out, part numbers. As an aside, I've used all three of these places without issue over the years for all sorts of obscure weirdo parts. I got a brand new OEM door card for a 1996 Mitsubishi Pajero Mini shipped to me here in the USA without drama, as well as lower window trim (A big chunk of decorative plastic) for a 1991 Honda Acty from Amayama. KakerMix fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Feb 12, 2024 |
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Thanks for the links and info. poking around on partsouq i've found part numbers for stuff like the full inner+outer rocker panels and places that have them at not crazy prices. When i can do a suspension refresh it should also help have all the bolts ready for when i snap the old ones.
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 00:09 |
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Pulled the blower so we can get the motor out tomorrow.
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 07:05 |
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FiST blend door motor replacements. Took less than 60 minutes but it was pretty annoying since the driver side is shoved behind the steering wheel. The driver side was the only one making noise but might as well do both since cost of new OEM parts was only $77
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 21:07 |
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Took delivery and washed, polished and waxed it, it will look nice for 12-13 hours.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 04:25 |
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KakerMix posted:Took delivery and washed, polished and waxed it, it will look nice for 12-13 hours. Jesus that is looking so awesome and I am super jealous!
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 16:59 |
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It was oil change day. The 01 Forester was quick, though I slightly overfilled it. The POs weren't big on a lot of maintenance, so the oil was pretty thick and black. The vette I did the engine oil and the supercharger oil. It's probably due for the rear end/transmission oil at 60k, but I'll wait until later this summer. I'd like to do a clutch job on it, and while that's out, it would be the easiest time to do it, as you have to pull basically everything except the engine and front subframe out of the car.
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# ? Feb 15, 2024 21:27 |
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Not so much what I did to the car as what I did for the car. Got hold of a 1965 Dodge Dart service manual. Been looking for one but always been very pricey. Man what a gem of a manual compared to many modern manuals. I've come to the conclusion that I really need a proper garage to continue with the project. As it happens me and my wife are looking to buy a house, so just waiting for the right one to pop up. Can't wait to get going again!
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# ? Feb 19, 2024 18:41 |
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Last night I finally welded up the rust hole in the mazda 6. I notice where it rusted out there is a hole on the bottom/side that will let water and crap into the beam structure, but I can see no drain hole. When I cut away the rust I had so much debris logged in there, no wonder it rusted out. But why! Why have those holes there? Also I wonder if I am really bad at welding or if I can start blaming my mig welder, but it sure turned out ugly lumpy mess even after I ground down the worst. The welder is so inconsistent from weld to weld. I wonder if the ground cable is broken still, I've gone through the handle and cleaned out the liner and got new rollers for the feeder, it feeds very well. I cut off a part of the ground cable when I got it as it looked to be in bad shape but maybe the whole cable needs replacing. Or it's just me. Using straight co2 might get some blame but I didn't do much better with mixgas, I think they act similar enough.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 06:09 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:Last night I finally welded up the rust hole in the mazda 6. I notice where it rusted out there is a hole on the bottom/side that will let water and crap into the beam structure, but I can see no drain hole. When I cut away the rust I had so much debris logged in there, no wonder it rusted out. But why! Why have those holes there? A friend has a Lexus IS200 which has rotted out on the sill just in front of the rear wheels. There's a set of plastic guards bolted at the bottom of the sill in the wheel arch which just collect crud, water, road salt and rot out on every single IS that's driven in anything other than dry conditions. It's such a poor design choice.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 08:07 |
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I have those as well on both the toyota and mazda. Replaced the left hand sills on both cars and did not put the holes or plastic strip back. I still got the same to do on the right side on the mazda, the toyota is surprisingly in good shape. That drat plastic strip makes no sense. I covered the underside with lots of undercoating instead.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 09:01 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:Last night I finally welded up the rust hole in the mazda 6. I notice where it rusted out there is a hole on the bottom/side that will let water and crap into the beam structure, but I can see no drain hole. When I cut away the rust I had so much debris logged in there, no wonder it rusted out. But why! Why have those holes there? Try posting the question in the metal working thread in HCH.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Last night I finally welded up the rust hole in the mazda 6. I notice where it rusted out there is a hole on the bottom/side that will let water and crap into the beam structure, but I can see no drain hole. When I cut away the rust I had so much debris logged in there, no wonder it rusted out. But why! Why have those holes there? Do you have the polarity correct? Might be worth doublechecking. This is me posting as a guy who did this once and was so confused when welding as nothing was wrong the way I'm used to it being wrong.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 21:39 |
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StormDrain posted:Do you have the polarity correct? Might be worth doublechecking. This is me posting as a guy who did this once and was so confused when welding as nothing was wrong the way I'm used to it being wrong. That's a really good point. If that used to be a flux core box it's probably set to DCEN and a mig torch should be positive.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 21:46 |
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Lazily quoting myself in my own thread. TL, DR: re-jetted and adjusted idle on the Corolla's Weber, still need to do the main jets (too lean, as it turns out) and painted the rusty wiper arms. It idles much better now, at least. Darchangel posted:Weather was nice and I had a three-day weekend. Time to work on something! I chose to fiddle with the AE86, since I got in the parts I needed.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Last night I finally welded up the rust hole in the mazda 6. I notice where it rusted out there is a hole on the bottom/side that will let water and crap into the beam structure, but I can see no drain hole. When I cut away the rust I had so much debris logged in there, no wonder it rusted out. But why! Why have those holes there? Motronic posted:That's a really good point. If that used to be a flux core box it's probably set to DCEN and a mig torch should be positive. nth-ing this. I use straight C02 and it works OK. It's a little "hot" for thin stuff, making it difficult to not blow through, but still welds fine on thicker steel. That might be part of your problem? I end up with decent welds on the 18-or-so gauge in the floorboards of my RX-7, but not the best. It's always a dance between wire speed and power. I envy the newer Millers and such where you just tell it what you're welding and it figures out what should work best, and you can go from there.
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 22:49 |
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Darchangel posted:Lazily quoting myself in my own thread. "Piver and Drassenger" ~PO of your car I'm saving up a bunch of pics for a thread on the 86. Today was the last of the fluids and then what started as a cleaning turned into an interior stripping. I did find some dope stuff though. A Canadian tire coupon that expired 22 years ago. a map of Calgary and Edmonton from 1996 A Danish Krone Pennies! Canada discontinued pennies in 2012. PO also bought me a car wash.
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StormDrain posted:Do you have the polarity correct? Might be worth doublechecking. This is me posting as a guy who did this once and was so confused when welding as nothing was wrong the way I'm used to it being wrong. I can't actually swap it without opening up the welder on this model, it's a 250A industrial welder I bought 2nd hand. Now I have another welder of the same brand that's a 300A TIG/stick model, I found it's ground cable has the same connector, that ground cable is much thicker to boot. I put it on the mig welder and I think it made a difference, I was able/had to go down 3 steps on the power scale (transformer welder) to weld the same type of sheet metal without it getting too hot. Previously that would have made turds on the metal mostly. So I think I am onto something here.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 10:42 |
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I paid $10 to ship two screws. Stupid Toyota uses stupid M3.5 screws for the stupid rear wiper blade on 3rd Gen 4Runners. $2.50 for the screws, $10 for shipping. Stupid Toyota.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 16:32 |
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In my natural habitat again. Fuel leaks this time. Fuel return leaking at the back of the block. "new" Gates 30R6 ehhh 8 years ago is now coming due. Continental is going in for next time. F to You, Gates. 2 plastic return cups were leaking. I have a box of em so they do not anymore. Looking to be time to do them all. May be time to go billet since I'm tired of dealing with these plastic shits.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 16:45 |
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PhotoKirk posted:I paid $10 to ship two screws. Hit me up next time, I'll get them for you cheaper and without ludicrous shipping. (This goes to anyone who wants Toyota oem stuff.)
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 18:34 |
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Night Danger Moose posted:Hit me up next time, I'll get them for you cheaper and without ludicrous shipping. (This goes to anyone who wants Toyota oem stuff.) All Toyota parts or just USDM stuff?
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 18:36 |
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KakerMix posted:All Toyota parts or just USDM stuff? Probably just USDM stuff unless you got a part number but I can try to research on parstouq or something.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 18:43 |
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Night Danger Moose posted:Probably just USDM stuff unless you got a part number but I can try to research on parstouq or something. Oh yeah i'd have the actual part numbers, I wouldn't just go "its that thing, you know the one, right??" I don't have anything I'm looking at the moment, though I do have to try to figure out what is wrong electrically with this guy: Thankfully it can be pushed started even though it's a diesel, and electrically it isn't, on account of it being purely mechanical. Runs and drives great once you get it fired up, but electrically it's weirdly sort of dead. Lights work, but only weakly. Some fuses are blown leading me to believe someone tried jumping it as a 24v truck even though it's 12v, even though it has dual batteries (parallel, not series!). Instrument cluster will only show me the charge light indicator but won't show speed or RPM. I've had to get a few relays before for other Hiluxes so I assume it's just a more intense version of that. Today I drove the Levin to Palmetto for cool legality inspection stuff and demonstrated that a Nissan Titan's engine is above my roof. Soon she'll have a classic plate which, in Florida, you have to wait till the car is 30 years old.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 18:58 |
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Powershift posted:
Just an update to this. They covered shipping back and issued a full refund today, including most of the shipping from that warehouse. The part is still listed wrong in their listings but now specifies 4ALC engine only. I'm satisfied with the resolution, which is good because for simple poo poo like power steering boots they're literally 1/5th of the price of local stores. Night Danger Moose posted:Hit me up next time, I'll get them for you cheaper and without ludicrous shipping. (This goes to anyone who wants Toyota oem stuff.) If you're able to ship it Canada you might become my new best friend. I've got a while before i save enough to tackle suspension stuff but I'm thinking every bolt in there is coming out liquid.
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# ? Feb 22, 2024 14:09 |
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Night Danger Moose posted:Hit me up next time, I'll get them for you cheaper and without ludicrous shipping. (This goes to anyone who wants Toyota oem stuff.) Thanks! I need to do LBJs at some point.
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# ? Feb 22, 2024 15:53 |
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more like what my car did to me today! https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s9boujV8N21a4kan9_720.mp4
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 20:41 |
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Oh that suuuucks, sorry.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 21:28 |
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afen posted:more like what my car did to me today! F
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 22:12 |
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Intermittent brake light failure on the boy’s RX8. New bulb, cleaned connector, no dice.
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# ? Feb 24, 2024 00:42 |
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Just a simple oil change. I write the date and mileage on the filter with a sharpie. The one I took off said FEB 25. I changed my process to include the year.
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 02:35 |
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StormDrain posted:Just a simple oil change. I write the date and mileage on the filter with a sharpie. The one I took off said FEB 25. I generally just write the mileage. So I'll write like 62K on it.
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 03:20 |
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I just leave the date the junkyard writes in paint pen. Not like it's gonna make it anyway.
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 03:24 |
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I've never written anything on the filter. I always write things down in the service book. Infact I just ordered a customized notebook for me to write all my service stuff in because the factory one is now filled up. On the inside back cover I put a table for oil changes. 17 rows should be enough I hope.
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 08:32 |
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I washed the Saab last night when we had above freezing temps because it had a lot of grinding dust on it from being in the shop. Of course afterwards I find two pools of water in the trunk, that I'm about to repaint with epoxy primer. Leaks coming in same place as last time it appears, from the tail lights. I've tried to seal them up before but it's not taking. The old seals are scrap I believe. Tear them out, lots of old butyl sealant around there as well showing earlier repair attempts: Cut of a bit and look at the profile and take some measurements. I don't know if the profile lookedd like this from the start, or if it changed into this from being compressed, but I think an O-profile might do here, 10mm. This one is trickier, this seems to be a short, custom piece, now where the hell to get something like this.
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 10:34 |
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His Divine Shadow posted:I've never written anything on the filter. I always write things down in the service book. I just have a white board in the garage that I write service stuff on. It's also where my wife trolls me.
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:53 |
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If I'm able to see the filter, which I can on some of my company's equipment, I write it (date and hrs) on the filter. If the filter is buried somewhere in the bowels of the machine, I'll still write it on the filter, but also we've got a label maker so I'll type out "next oil change due @ XXXhrs" and paste that label next to the hour meter. It was great when I got a new machine and the one that I was using the label maker on was given to a guy who is always saying stuff like "yeah I can't remember poo poo most of the time" and then seeing the last label I put on there was from like 700 hours ago. At one point he decided that "the hour meter is wrong, its reading slow, I got 180 hours last month but the hour meter only went up by 60 hours" I have to be all " the hour meter doesn't run if the key is off, so when you're sitting in traffic for 2 hours on the way to and from the site, the drill ain't getting any hours on it".
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