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Traskos are a bit spendy alright. Replacement time depends on the condition of the engine but generally speaking the first element needs to be replaced sooner as it cleans things up. After that you can go longer. Traskos are not the best choice for a bypass filter although they work well. Their...

Yeah, funny how those old bugs didn't have a filter yet lasted forever. More proof a full flow filter is pretty much a useless appendage on a car. I know a guy who ran without a filter for a year. Oil analysis showed no difference in wear metals. Airplane engines used to come with only a screen...

See Colin? It must be true cause a guy on the internet said so ;) Supraholic: Facts? State your source. A Phd chemist and VP of the largest syn fluids maker in the world with 30 years experience doing GC analysis on base stocks claims different. Not to mention you write like someone doesn't...

Lol, zoom. Guess I was wasting my time there. I'll skip the mumbo-jumbo and just say just that if I were you I'd replace them now while it's easy to do.

Ok, here you go. This mainly applies to the 7MGTE. I'll try to keep it simple but still provide some detail. There are four wires between the ECU and igniter. There are three wires between the igniter and the coil packs plus a fourth wire that supplies 12 volts to each pack whenever the...

Two words: dye penetrant

Huh? You be confused. Almost as much as I am ;)

Just to keep this in perspective not all Mobil Ones have been proven to be Grp III, just the most expensive line. Since these days Mobil flat out refuses to either confirm or deny the base stock in any of their oils (when in the past they touted it) the buyer should beware. I suspect some of...

Bad air? Lol. Nope, you're right. I'm not gonna get involved in this fiasco other than to say the guy should take the car to someone with a clue about how they work. Either that or jack up the radiator cap and roll another one underneath it.

Sans AFM during start the ECU uses STA and IDL closed to set ignition timing and injection. After start it uses IDL open for another set of valves for them. All you get are those two so don't expect normal behavior but generally speaking an engine in good condition should start and run...

http://tinyurl.com/3e4mod Item 6 JAV, the ECU will enter Fail Safe without the AFM connected and will be driveable with care as long as you go easy on the pedal (the ECU uses IDL to substitute for the AFM). Mine idles fine and if I go easy on the gas I could drive it all day long. You'd be...

Fixed ;)

Scammed is right. So you shift the THA signal (the 7MGE does has an IAT sensor) a little cooler. The ECU responds by adding a bit more fuel into the basic injector calculation. After all the corrections are applied the O2 sensor then brings the mixture right back to stoichiometric. You're back...

My two cents: Water Wetter contains a surfactant and corrosion inhibitors among other things. The surfactant in it is sodium molybdate. The corrosion inhibitor is tolyltriazole. Surfactants work by breaking surface tension. Most common detergent contain surfactants because the breaking of...

Best to stop looking at it as a head bolt and start looking at it as any clamped joint. "Stretching" itself isn't the issue. The real issue revolves around the elastic versus plastic regions of a material and into which the elongation ends up putting it. It's mechanical engineering 101.

Yeah, this went on for a bit didn't it. All he needed was to slap a voltmeter across the battery. Odd thing though. From what I see in the thread he never mentioned his charge light being on. What's up with that I wonder. edit: now that I reread the thread he's got to have bigger problems than...

Looked at a car recently that I was certain had knock. Turned out to be a flywheel problem. Also seen a few Supras with loose crank pulleys that sounded like knock.

I was wondering that too. He should get something much better designed. Something British for example ;)

I've no dog in this fight but since I've posted this before I might as well throw it up again, Electronic steths can be spendy but here's one that's a bargain and works great for this kind of stuff. Plus you can remove the probe and listen to your neighbors with it ;) http://tinyurl.com/zgtcl

Not sure I follow that logic ;).