Recent content by Jonnymkiii

Thanks for the replies! I'll try and clean up and relube what I have and take it for there.

Good day! After 30 years my passenger side door lock is about kaput and I'm not able to find some where online that I can but a new set for each door. If its warm out, the door will generally lock, but as it gets colder, it will not activate the lock; I have to manually lock it. I was able to...

Sorry for the delay; the car was fixed on Monday and this week has been hectic, so I haven't been online as much. Raggan hit the nail on the head! I have a short throw shifter and it was indeed leaking from the shifter adapter plate that bolts to the transmission. I wound up taking it to a...

Well after replacing the real oil seal on the transmission and the o-ring on the speedo gear box, it is still leaking into a small pancake size puddle. I haven't jacked the car back up, but where ever the source is, it's dripping onto the transmission support beam and dripping to the ground...

I think I bought these in the fall of 2015. I had a feeling there was an issue once I installed them and set the CPS, but at the time I wasn't sure. Knowing what I know now I would have sent them in a lot sooner, but I needed to do my due diligence before I contacted BC. They have great customer...

I ordered an oil ring, so hopefully that's it. I made sure oil wasn't seeping from inside the gear; I can see oil around the perimeter of the gear where it goes inside the transmission, which I don't think is normal. If the leak isn't the rear oil seal or the speedometer gear box, could it be...

Thanks for the i input; I'll call Toyota tomorrow to see about getting a new o-ring. For the rear oil seal, if I wanted to pull that one out and put in a Toyota seal, should it pop out with a seal puller or some form of a pry bar? Since I'm in there and I have a OEM seal, I'd like to replace it.

They did indeed. The cam itself was within spec; there was just something wrong with the timing gear. Once I installed the new exhaust cam, the engine ran great.

As it turns out, I was wrong about it not being transmission oil. I have only changed the transmission fluid once myself, so I wasn't that familiar with the color of the lube, but I mistakenly assumed it was red for mantuals as well. Anyhoo, it looked and felt like new oil, but I made the...

That plug on the back of the block is what I hope it is.. pray for me that it's not the head gasket leaking! :)

Thanks for the input! I thought it might have been the valve covers as well, but changed them over the weekend and it's still dripping. When the engine cooled down I felt behind there and didn't feel anything that felt slick or oily, but that's only a surface test. I am going to put in some...

I'm trying to find the source of an oil leak and was wondering if anyone else has seen these symptoms. When I drive the car and get back home, it drips oil directly under the rear of the transmission and cross- member support bar. I put paper under to catch it and it's motor oil and not...

So to close the loop on this, the issue was the exhaust cam. The cam itself was in-spec, but the timing gear was either wrong or set wrong. I sent them the cam and their argument was that the cam was in spec and I provided them the picture that is attached to this post and they agreed to send...

I was finally able to degree the cams into spec. The Intake and Exhaust Open/Close specs from the timing card not obtainable, so I split the difference so that the valve open and close spec were within 3.5 degrees of spec. I am not sure if this is normal or an indicator there is an issue with...

inDEED :) They had the head, block and pistons and were the ones to ask me if I would be interested in increasing the compression. We talked about the pros/cons, but they felt comfortable suggesting the 1mm head gasket. They did say they wouldn't recommend the higher compression at sea level...