Recent content by zhenya

Time for a big update! A lot of things happened since I last posted so I will try to go in order. I had to focus on my daily driver project car for a while. Had to get new tires and some other small things, and came to a decision that it's time for a new daily. I've owned it for 17 years now so...

This is giving me a lot of motivation to continue working on my supra. The daily has been acting up so I haven't made much progress lately.

Good luck!! Love to see a project car get finished.

Spent some time last weekend on the valve covers. I took them off, cleaned the area, found a random bolt sitting next to one of the cams (no idea how it didn't hit the cam during driving and damage things). Got new gaskets and did a lot of degreasing. There's a metal piece between the two valve...

The supra lives again! Replaced the master and slave clutch cylinders and now the pedal is feeling great. But as always with project cars, new things came up. I've been fighting with the fuel level sender and it refuses to work properly. As soon as I put it in the tank, it seems like it's...

Small update. The clutch is being difficult again, I think the hydraulic system is failing. I got a new master and slave cylinders, but have not had time to install them yet. The car was broken into last night. I only noticed because the door wasn't closed all the way this morning. They...

Some small updates. I got a new fuel level sender from the Toyota Legacy program. Pretty cool to be able to get fresh parts from a Toyota dealership for a 30+ year old car. I'm hoping they add more parts to it in the near future. But now I can see how much fuel I have!! Of course the supra...

I'm over here thinking taking inspiration from your projects, doing multiple cars at the same time lol. Honestly I'm looking at this car as a learning opportunity. It's already so bad that anything I do will be better than the current situation. So I'll be doing body work, paint, wiring...

Thanks! The car started in a pretty low place so the only way to go is up. Big news today everyone! After owning the car for over 4 years, I finally got a clean title for it! Thank you to everyone who offered advice and support in the original thread about how to accomplish this. I ended up...

After some time of driving around and everything looking fine, the car decided to drop most of its coolant all over my garage. The culprit was this tiny hose in a very difficult to reach spot on the engine block. But on the bright side, my daily got a new head unit so the supra got the...

After doing all that, we wanted to give the coolant system a proper test, so we drove it around until it got up to temp, and then kept on going higher. Using scientific testing (picture below), we were able to determine that the thermostat is bad, because it wasn't opening. After getting that...

Since the car started and moved under its own power, it was time to get serious about making it driveable. We changed all fluids, spark plugs, and s tarted looking for leaks. There was a noise coming from the water pump like the bearing was bad, so we replaced it. It was also having trouble...

I'm glad to hear you remembered! It's been a lot of work to get it to do anything. We ended up replacing the TPS, clutch slave cylinder, and a few other things. But in the end, victory! First Start First Start Part 2 My favorite part is that there were so many spiders in the car that every...

I'm going to summarize things because all of this happened a couple of years ago. One of the problems with this car is I couldn't get a title for it, so while trying to get it to start, I was also trying to figure out what paperwork I needed to do in order to get a title and make it legally...

I'm recreating a thread I started on here before the site went down, and unfortunately my thread didn't come back. So everyone, welcome to a major restoration/learning project. I found this car in the middle of nowhere, where it's been sitting for almost 20 years. The registration expired in...