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I'm not sure it would be easy to do on the car, but here's what I did: Removed IC from car and cleaned it out with gasoline by filling it up, letting it sit overnight, drain, repeat, then flush with plenty of water allow to completely dry. A butt-ton of crap came out on the first flush, and...

I'm at about $120 for the Supra (3 fill ups/mo @ $40 or so), and my wife puts more than $200 (3 to 4 in her car @ about $65 to $70 each) into hers, but we use that car a lot more.

^^^ yeah. It's not the car's fault that you got ripped off by a jerk, and it sounds like there is no way you would consider selling or parting it out if he hadn't misrepresented the sale. Did you buy locally? Do you have any recourse, or did you at least post up the experience on SF...

I had a sportbike. I laid it down, missed a mailbox by about 18" and dislocated my left shoulder. I've had three screws in it for the past 12 years. My wife says no street bike, but that gave me a lot of ammo to buy my Supra, so things work out. :) Oh yeah, and a few years ago I broke...

Your exhaust is highly illegal and you should sell it to me before you get into big trouble. Since I'm helping you out, I'm sure you'll help me out on the price in return. :D

There should be some government agency that you can launch a complaint with. Start with a call to the attorney's general office and see where to go from there. I don't think you've got a lawsuit, but they should face up to this.

I have a brother in law who drives across there twice a week about that time - but not today - and a sister who took a new job a couple of months ago who used to cross in rush hour every day until she took the new position. I called up there an hour ago and nobody we know. I'm sure there will...

Aaron, your spinning globe of pot avatar pretty much cleared up any questions I had about you being a cop. :-p

Thanks IJ & Jon. I wouldn't have guessed 100 ft-lbs to break it, but if that's what it takes I can see a big difference between "just breaking" and backing off completely. I didn't retorque mine because I was afraid that backing off meant breaking the seal and it just didn't feel right. 76...

Shytheed Dumas = Shithead Dumbass. Anybody want to argue that one? :biglaugh:

At the risk of getting bitch slapped myself, wouldn't the safest thing to do be to torque in sequence straight to 80 ft-lbs? It's enough higher to break static friction I would think, and would eliminate any risks that come with relaxing the bolts.

I have a similar problem: Hissing at the front of the engine that I can't find, running rich and less power than I should have. Slide, have you had any luck in finding the leak? I'm stumped on mine. :icon_conf

Not only was the rear friction pad just flying around on the passenger side, but the front wasn't there at all! It probably hadn't been there in years. On the drivers side, there was a little shoe left on both the front and back, but the back was starting to peel away, too. It's a good thing...

Done! Two 12mm bolts through those holes made my day! :) No wonder I was getting so much noise back there. The friction pad on the rear shoe had completely fallen off and was swinging around in there. I'm sure it was wedged in somehow and making it hard to get the disc off, because even...

Between your two suggestions I'll get the bastard off! Thanks, and I'll let you know how it goes from here. :)

I decided to adjust the e-brake cable last week at the lever since it never really worked, and immediately started getting severe intermittent clacking and squeeking from the passenger side. I drove the car little since then and ordered new shoes (for $101! :3d_frown: ) to go on today after...

Dumbass, Dumbass!!!! You're going to get sick of it... Just like me! :-p Okay, so as much as there's some truth in me my hating mine, I'm just joking. So why that one? Edit: You already answered my question

But they've got that damn handy grippy end! :D That said, filters from my Toyota dealership aren't that expensive and I'm there all the freaking time for one part or another. I just want the grippy end on them. And yes, only hand tight when the go on. ;) Seems to me somebody makes one...

:boobies: Floppy, errrr make that HAPPY Birthday Jay!!! :biglaugh: Another 37 year old on the forum again! Makes me happy. :D Is that the Holiday Inn I stayed at when you stopped by to get me in Vixen's car? Looks familiar.

If you are 100% efficient in neutralizing the acid, you would need exactly 51% of the total weight of acid spilled in baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) to stop the damage given a typical battery acid strength of 30% sulfuric acid and this chemical equation: 2 NaHCO3 + H2SO4 ---> Na2SO4 + 2 H2O...