Today I took it from autorepair. Toyota Aristo JZS147. Plan is to building it on weekends. I'll post some pictures at monday. BTW, handbrake has broken (wheels can't be unlocked).
Damn. Expensive. I'm not gonna bother buying any aftermarket wheels. I love the contrast of white wig the black steelies and the chrome center caps on these cars. My wheels are faded, though, and one of them is even starting to rust. Need to sand the rust out and repaint. @6677: Yeah, I could decat, but I'm not a bug fan of what these cars sound like with stock exhaust and no cats. It's like the compressor switches on, and then PCM raises the idle, then it immediately kicks back off and the idle goes down. You'd think that would make the ac not work but it blows cold. Thinking it could be a bad clutch. - - - Updated - - - 20 or 25 minutes after left Bristol today, cruising down the interstate and, out of nowhere the airbag light starts flashing and beeping a code at me. Did this for a minute or two and then stayed on. 45 minutes or so after that I stopped at mcdonalds, and when I started the car back up the airbag light didn't come on and stayed off for the rest of the trip. This car...
http://www.teampolizei.com/biography.html Probably not what you are going for, and I can't remember the quote about their gauge cluster screaming "tire pressure" in German, but the book was worth the read.
Did my best to restore my headlights. I'm pretty happy with the driver's side. It doesn't look new or anything, but it looks a hell of a lot better than it did. The passenger's side was a bitch to get it just to the stage it's at now. Don't know why, it just was. Driver's side took maybe half an hour, passenger's side took a couple of hours. The picture makes the passenger side look more hazy than it actually is in person. Also, it gets to live in the garage this weekend.
The idiot owner decided to go on a mud bogging adventure in his own front yard. Haha. It rained hard in the night, and the patch of grass I usually park on became a sludgy, awful mess, so I had to pull the damn thing out.
I went to the drag strip in ottawa in my tucson (v6 awd) and got 12.653 (2 weeks ago) at 181 kmph today im gonna go to the dyno to see what power it actually makes more than its standard or less idk stardard 178hp 179t
Went for a Sunday drive with the digital camera. Cam battery stated full, yet drained in fifteen minutes. Michigan Sunday driving. (Usually pushing the limit of cornering.)
I swear your signature used to say you lost your license. Plus whats with the revving at a standstill?
I don't have an answer to either of your questions, please rephrase them. Why do you rev at a standstill?
It's a line from a Joe Walsh song. Testing ac pressures now, because they can cause strange compressor cycling. Will update.
Well your signature used to say you lost your license. How? And if you have no license, gtfo the road. People with no license are one of the main contributors to insurance prices in the UK and if they'd just sincerely clear off then I would quite like the £400 saving they could make on my policy. I rev at a standstill because I dont. Perhaps its the camera but that didnt sound overly impressive and on a cold engine you're just wearing it out more rapidly, its quite bad for it. Unless its been warmed off camera I would have avoided doing that. Considering it has over 150000 miles on it, I do lean towards babying my engine on startup. I tend to extend that babying to all engines. The oil in theory has to warm up before it actually lubricates the engine properly, the pump also cant pump it as easily (the oil tends to thicken up at lower temperatures), so revving a cold engine is effectively revving it with no lubricant.
Further Charlevoix drive today talk. Basically, old people migrate here for the summer. It is an artery that clogs every year full of idling in traffic. It is hell. 6677, you mad at my overtake? Aside, my inability to give more space to the woman hiding in her SUV, that was clean driving, and any cop that would take my money over it would know their size. It is literally the only time I am happy, behind the wheel. - - - Updated - - - My cousin lost his license in his WRX, not me, I get in wrecks a decade ago. How else do you get in gear? The car was actually warmed for ten minutes. I was not impressing, I was coating my crank with oil. Also to hear what it sounds like so in the end I do not kill it when I do not intend to. This. I actually think we are trying to solve the same problem in a way, I just do not understand why we are always fucking mad at each other.
Snippety snip snip. If I wanted to criticise the driving itself. I would have. Nobody is perfect and I didnt particularly see anything to be mad at before I wondered why I was watching a video of someone cruising around the place and turned it off (did see the parked SUV, didnt give a damn, they shouldnt be getting out of their SUVs with cars coming). Dont need to rev a car to get it in gear. Depress clutch, slide shifter to 1st. Or in an auto, depress brake, hold the switch on the shifter if there is one and slide it to D. The throttle is not involved. Nor do you need to rev the engine much to pull away in a manual. But if its been warmed for 10 mins or so (quite reasonable if you have to set the camera up first) then yeah, it'll survive. The madness. Depends on if you fancy writing in english or tripping balls. Seems english has been chosen today.
Agreed, it is not as if my coolant was overly warm. You were watching it for the balance is my guess. It is why I watch videos out of Sweden/Dubai/England/Asia, anywhere really, even though most are quite dull. The lady was outside her SUV the entire trip I was on that street. That door was always half closed on her ass thus I did not see her first and made me think etc.
Ac pressures were a little low across the board, so I bought two cans of refrigerant to fill it back up, then realized that I needed an adapter to attach it to the ac gauge manifold thing, went and bought one, and it didn't seal right onto the hose. So I now have 1 1/2 cans of refrigerant and still a constantly cycling compressor. Bought a new motorcraft fuel filter. Turned the car on and smacked the fuel pump cutoff thing in the trunk to get it to disengage. You're supposed to then let the car run until it is starved of fuel and stalls, but it started making all kinds of noises and running rough so I just shut it off. I figured that was enough to get the pressure out of the line. When i disconnected the line at the rear of the filter gasoline sprayed all over my face, and continued spewing out of the line for a good 10 seconds. In my disoriented state I only managed to catch about the last 2 seconds of gas though. :| It went in my mouth, nose, hair, but not my eyes because I was wearing safety goggles. Haven't gotten a chance to see if it was the reason for the sluggish acceleration yet, but it idles about 50 rpm higher in park and 100 in gear, which is a hopeful sign.
Those refrigerant cans are inadvisable. You are supposed to check the high and low side pressures when topping the AC up, yet no provision for doing so is included in the kit. They can then easily let you overfill the compressor which can cause failure. Wish I'd been there to see the fuel lines. Sounds hilarious. Suppose you've never had a vehicle run out of fuel before? They do sound a bit rough as they start to lean out. But those fuel pressures are quite high, even as it leans out there is a fair bit left in the line. Really manufacturers should put a manual shutoff either side of the filter or something considering it is a maintenance item.
I don't know what it is about the P-71 and the fuel filter. Most Civi-Vics don't seem to have this issue.... I wonder if they use extremely shitty quality fuel for fleet use or something.
