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My Soup is cloth but my other car is Connelly leather from England. Some of the finest made. Rolls Royce uses Connelly. Zaino's Leather Cleaner followed their Leather In a Bottle has kept it like new. Smells wonderful too. Connelly Hide Feed is also pretty good. Most off the shelf auto store...

There are rare exceptions but the vast majority of fuel filters are needlessly changed. People change them for the same reason they still their change oil and oil filter at 3K miles: they're ignorant. As for not understanding how they can be lifetime go to a junkyard and find one to cut open...

Loll...tell us how you really feel Nick. I was going to get in the first reply with "it's the I'm too lazy to search or look at the online TRSM and it's been mentioned a million times" code but decided against it. Plus he's a "Supramania Regular"!

Good. At least you don't write like a foul mouthed illiterate 14 year old punk. Now that pisses me off ;)

It's not safe to assume anything ;) The cat won't go bad from age. What kills them is burning oil or running rich, or pouring crap additives into your gas tank or manifold. It's unlikely your cat is bad because I can tell from the emission numbers the oxidizing section in it is working. That...

I expressed surprise because a rich mixture supresses NOx. It's very unlikely the two would occur together and sure enough, the engine is not rich at all. It actually looks pretty darn good. CO2 is right up there, O2 is correct (proves the sensor is working and the engine is in closed loop)...

The NOx is high but the engine's too rich? A licensed smog guy told you that?? Post up the numbers and I'll tell you what's going on.

Amuses me too, especially at how easily bruised the youthful ego is. No, he didn't piss me off. My intent wasn't to flame him either. I was only pointing out what I see time and again here. I understand we all have to start somewhere but rarely is learning something on your own wise and this...

Mistakes are when you know what you're doing and screw up. That's not the same as "how can two pins locate something better than 14 bolts" and "if the head is together the bolts will keep it centered". Time and again I see guys deep into doing stuff when they don't know how precision things...

That's brilliant. Where do you guys come up with this stuff? ;)

Change for your 0.02: Those would be the torque sticks previously mentioned. Course, that would fly in the face of what you wrote earlier:

I'm surprised anyone needing to ask this question in the first place would be rebuilding engines. Not a good sign.

What cj said. I wish they were OBD-II though. It'd make life a lot easier. Nothing beats a good scan tool and there have been times I'd have killed for freeze frame on a 7M.

The ECU has two sources of power. The first comes directly from the battery (BATT) and is on at all times to maintain memory. The second is through the main EFI relay (+B and +B1), which the ECU itself controls. When you turn on the ignition switch it sends power (IGSW) to the ECU. The ECU then...

Not questioning you shaeff my man, only offering up what I know about the earlier years. I'll look at the online EWD for the later year but since it seems to have mistakes I'll need to take it with a grain of salt.

Fwiw a car is almost always more efficient with AC than with windows open, at least at speeds above 40 mph. Plus it's not fun to be sweating in slow moving traffic. Not to mention the next owner may want AC so at least bag it up and keep it. Your car, your call though. What's that? You'll never...

Lol. Good stuff and pretty much dead on. I can usually tell when someone is lazy or just plain illiterate but sometimes I sense they might be a non-native speaker. I'd prefer to know which before I ignore future posts.

Good deal. In addition change all the fluids, inspect the belts and hoses, and go buy a genuine service manual. And whatever you do don't buy a distributor ;) You should also increase your witholding...tax refunds are bad deals.

Pretty much what CRE said (and said well). The filter is there to prevent crap from fouling the flow control valve when the air flows inward (towards the diaphragm) when the throttle is off idle. The flow valve is like a check valve except it flows easily in one direction (towards the diaphragm)...

Listed. X3. God I love it when that happens....