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Problem solved ! If you have a competent and honest mechanic give them a shot. You'll be able to save a ton if he doesn't mind letting you provide parts, if you help you should provide a couple cases of beer after the job for slowing him down.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Haha yeah. I should find some Dominican Rum for Julio, the owner. I totally trust him and his crew but- LR not Chevy... although this was the scene in there today Attachment 402090
Weird the beer pic ended up here
Nice choice on the beer. My old stomping grounds.
Well, the other seat is an aftermarket Bestop seat that isn't the correct height or width to the original Eddie Bauer seats. I think the original seats were pretty close to these "new" ones. I am a fairly normal sized 5'10" 185 lbs guy, and the new seats, even with their temp wood base, are WAYYYY more comfy. So yay fat mini van drivers, I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
Mags.. I need your help.
3rd gen 4runner, 3.4l v6
Check Engine Light came on the other day accompanied with very rough running.. code says its a 4th cylinder misfire. I just replaced the spark plug on the 4th cylinder, but no luck. Research says it could be an ignition coil, but if the ignition coil is bad wouldn't I have the 1st and 4th cylinder misfiring??? not just the 4th (the 4th and 1st cylinder share ignition coils)...
Maybe it could be the wiring from the 1st to the 4th, but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
Any experience/ideas?
Pull the coil, move it to another cylinder and see if the problem moves with it.
I swapped coils and the problem is still at the 4th cylinder. Starting to think its a wiring problem that I cant find or a faulty fuel injector.. hopefully whatever is cheaperQuote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
Swap plug wires from #4 to a different plug?Quote:
Originally Posted by bearcub69
Will do! Always looking for a reason to head to your area. Hopefully the subframe holds up. The rack doesn't take a lot of weight back there given the strap over the bike stem. But we'll see. It held up for over a year with no bracing at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by climberevan
I don't recall the cylinder numbering on those but if the coil is on #1 and not #4 then if you're lucky it's just the wire, or plug.Quote:
Originally Posted by bearcub69
I fucked around with one of these for fucking ever, with your symptoms, and it ended up being that injector was bad. Figured it out after swapping every other ignition component out. Mine was intermittent enough that I never got a code, bc it only missed at high rpms. Anyway, changing out the injector wasn't the worst thing in the world. The diagnosis was way more frustrating!
Edit, saw you changed plug, hope it's the wire because those 3.4s eat wires up. then check to make sure the plug tube seals aren't leaking oil down in there, it'll short out, after that... I'd look at the injector.
Coils can feed multiple cylinder plug wires. My older subaru had a single coil feeding 4 cyls, my tacoma 4 cyl has 2 coils.
If youre good with a multimeter and checking resistance it might be a quick check with a known good coil and the suspect coil.
Or as gravity said swap coils clear the code and drive it.
PSA: Don't be an absent-minded old phart and move your truck while the battery charger is still hooked up. It's a good thing it was a cheapie Harbor Freight unit because the power wire just pulled out but it coulda been ugly if I wasn't a frugal fellow :rolleyes2
Got a new sticker for the Rover......
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Also, RE: plugging in the VW, just drill the bumper. The Wrangler unplugs herself.
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And yes, I see the irony that one side of my garage is making fun of the other side...... but I think I've said this before, there's no such thing as too many solid axles.
^^ As long as one isn't a Mustang.
So as I was driving around this morning doing shit I realized that I've been approaching things wrong. Those portable carport things with roll-down sides are 10x20 so when I got home I measured the flattest part of the upper section of the driveway and it's 11 feet wide. I'm gonna order me a garage that won't break setback codes :) Add a propane heater and it's still only half of what I'd pay for labor for just this one big job. Win.
Before I commit does anyone have any experience with these things?
Not personally but 1 of 10 homes in my hood have one. Sounds like a good plan.
Hey at least it's not a blue tarp :D
Be careful with the propane heater. Tarp material goes up in flames faster than Jewish lightening.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
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Originally Posted by gravitylover
How much snow do you get? They can't take much.
Yeah, I was thinking one of the infrared ones but I'll look at it some more before I commit. Some of the ones I see around here have been out for years and are still standing but they look like there's plywood or something under the cover because it doesn't sag when there's snow on it. Ehh, the wife isn't sold on it so I might get skunked anyway.
I've had one I bought from Costco (or maybe Amazon) up for 3? years, It's held up well but this fall I was noticing the roof was beginning to look a little thin and I covered it with a second black / silver tarp. The secret to making them last is to screw the legs to a pressure treated 2x12, it keeps the legs from moving and the wind from blowing it away. I've had up to 10" or more of heavy wet snow on mine several times and usually it will slide off without too much work by pushing it off from the inside with a push broom. I don't know how long they'd stay up with a heavy load of snow on them, I usually clean it off as soon as possible.
We'll, I'd been letting the e34 go for too long. Had developed a wobble, and a clunk, and had worn parts. So. New parts, all 4 control arms, both front wheel bearings, both front strut mounts. Suspension nice and tight now. Clunk was determined to be a loose pass side motor mount nut. Tightened, and double nutted so it won't come loose again. No more clunkin.
Couple pics...
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Stripped a couple studs on the bottom of my exhaust manifold when replacing the Y-pipe ( fuck you catalytic converter thieves) and got tired of resetting my P2097 from the leak getting to my sensor so I started in on replacing the manifold today. Little did I know the last person to remove the manifold broke off two bolts and decided to just leave them there. Luckily a vise-grip took them out without issue
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That is lucky. Fuckinnsucks when previous owners bungle shit up.
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