Recent content by ebondragon87

Well she failed emissions yesterday. NOx was 4.057, limit was 3.500. Cleaned the egr pipes and made sure everything was in working order which it was. Cleaned as much carbon as i could from the cylinders/valves using a BG44K trick a co-worker taught me and made sure ignition timing was correct...

Welcome, glad to have another person from Colorado. What part are you from? If you ever need help just ask I'd be glad to lend a hand.

Chain wrench and not a little one, like an 18-24 in one and a 1/2in breaker bar. I use a piece of and old timing belt in between the chain wrench and crank pulley so it doesn't damage the crank pulley. I've seen the starter trick put a breaker bar through a radiator.

I have an AEM wideband on my Legacy and it works great.

Sounds like you have a vacuum leak(s)

Check for any obstruction in air flow for the radiator, make sure your fan clutch isnt bound (though i doubt thats it). Good chance that its your thermostat.

Do you have a way of checking codes? Could be igniter or cam/crank sensor

Have you had your battery tested? Recheck all connections for the battery relocation kit? The problem does sound electrical. Kinda sounds like you alternator may be weak and when you came to a stop your battery did not have enough life left to support the car. Thats just a guess though, happened...

Finally got time to replace everything this week, even did a transmission flush. Car runs great and shifts very smooth. As usual I forgot to take some pics of the interior. Now I'm onto my next dilemma. Do I buy a 1JZ and swap it in over the winter or stick with the 7M and just rebuild it? I'm...

I bought an ebay gasket set once.... It was for my 92 stealth turbo. Virtually all of the gaskets fit poorly and the rear main seal lasted less than 100 miles. The brand was Evergreen I believe. Use fipg (form in place gasket) where Toyota calls for it.

Check timing and spark plug wire order for sure.

So I opened up the timing cover today to replaced the front crank seal and to my surprise this is what I found, besides a brand new timing belt and very poorly installed front crank seal. The dowl pin for the tensioner came out, fortunetly it didnt do much damage. Everything...

Welcome, I'm in south east Aurora.

Hello all, My name is Brian and I've been a member for quite awhile now but never really posted any of my builds. Currently I work for Subaru as a tech but was with Toyota for 5 years. This will be my 6th Supra, and the 4th time I've said it'll be the last one. Anyway onto the point. At the...

What wire did you fix for the tps?