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- Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:36 pm
- Forum: TECH: 4A-GE ENGINE
- Topic: Another exhaust question..why small diameter at the end?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3258
Re: Another exhaust question..why small diameter at the end?
I don't know Toyota's logic on that car, but in general exhaust size is chosen either "because we've got lots of it" i.e. it is stock from other models, or because it saved money, or in order to tune the exhaust sound, or on some rare days, because it is tuning the flow. Yes, smaller tubin...
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:31 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: SUNROOF DRAIN LINES REPLACEMENT.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2905
Re: SUNROOF DRAIN LINES REPLACEMENT.
Weed whacker line might also work well, and be cheaper than a spool of really heavy fishing line. I'd expect the drain tubes to be clipped or glued somewhere along their length to prevent rattles and if they run clear, I'd leave them be. Too much chance old nylon would break up if you tried to pull ...
- Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:45 am
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: TAIL fuse not getting power?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3649
Re: TAIL fuse not getting power?
Probably a loose wire or a loose ground screw or a bad light switch (they come apart internally as they age) and the car shaking and vibrating when it is running is enough to make that come and go. Try starting it up and then tapping on the light switch for a while, see if the tapping sometimes turn...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:08 am
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Rewired my entire car - Alternator issues.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3710
Re: Rewired my entire car - Alternator issues.
http://www.rollaclub.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tech:Engine/A_Series/Alternator_Wiring_Diagram and http://forums.club4ag.com/zerothread?id=26085 may explain it better. The lead that goes to the "charge" light is critical, the light is also used as a dropping resistor to prevent full voltage ...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:04 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: ANOTHER "Car Not Starting" Thread...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7203
Re: ANOTHER "Car Not Starting" Thread...
"Work done at the smog shop included EGR, MAF, O2 sensor, throttle body." BINGO. Don't buy a new battery so fast. I had problems on my car, wher ethe car would run fine, come home fine, park and shut down fine, and then be stone dead the next morning. Plenty of battery, plenty of power ot ...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:54 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: could anyone tell me what would be a good price for this?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2991
Re: could anyone tell me what would be a good price for this
I think he's full of it. You can't just top off the AC on these cars, most AC shops no longer deal in R12 and if there's a leak, it can easily cost you a grand to have it FOUND and fixed. More likely $1500. As an individual, you can't legally buy it or add it either without an EPA permit. So...he's ...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:39 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Rewired my entire car - Alternator issues.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3710
Re: Rewired my entire car - Alternator issues.
Yes, you need all three of those wires. The white one is a battery voltage sense lead, it goes to the + terminal of the battery via the fusible link blocks. Separately from the charge output wire, although both are identical white SAE-10 wires stock. Replace your charge wire with something heavier a...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:30 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: TAIL fuse not getting power?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3649
Re: TAIL fuse not getting power?
A melty fuse indicates that something has been pulling a little too much power for a long time. Often it means the fuse socket is a little corroded, or the main harness plug is corroded where it goes into the bottom of the fuse box under the hood. You can unbolt the fuse box and turn it over to acce...
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:41 pm
- Forum: TECH: 4A-GE ENGINE
- Topic: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11867
Re: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
Regardless of torque, if you have a threaded part in a place that's not convenient, it is a very good idea to clean the threads thoroughly (solvent spray) and then use LocTite when you put it back together. The red is supposed to be "permanent" but they all have something like a two-year s...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8207
Re: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
Thank you! With any luck (furiously knocking wood) the DOT5 was intended to make sure I'd never have to do brake work on this car, with find memories of crocus cloth and rebuilding the brake cylinders on my 289 Mustang when it was only four or five years old.
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:22 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8207
Re: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
No problem, I'll just slip under the car and...oh, wait a minute, I seem to be too thick for that.<G>
But I'd bet Grainer or McMaster sells whatever o-rings you need.
But I'd bet Grainer or McMaster sells whatever o-rings you need.
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:27 am
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8207
Re: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
EPDM? Very interesting. I wonder how using DOT5 affects that picture. (Put mine in 26 years ago, knock wood.)
Interesting the way so many companies want you to have your brake fluid tested, not just changed on schedule, these days. Brakes ain't just brakes anymore.
Interesting the way so many companies want you to have your brake fluid tested, not just changed on schedule, these days. Brakes ain't just brakes anymore.
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:07 pm
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: AE86 towbar and roofrack info
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10463
Re: AE86 towbar and roofrack info
choco, do you have anything to even attempt contributing, or can I just assume you're a troll? So you saw a guy who had a hitch ball. As I said, so what? They were made for the cars. Aren't made any more. I know a guy pulling a boat with a Honda two-seater, S2000 with a factory tow rating of zero. D...
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:39 pm
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: AE86 towbar and roofrack info
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10463
Re: AE86 towbar and roofrack info
That's a hitch ball. So what? It bolts into a trailer hitch bracket, and those bolt into the car. They used to be made for it, to fit the mounting bolts that hold the bumper frame on. An L-shaped piece of metal, no big deal except if you need to custom make one and don't have a metal shop around.
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:21 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8207
Re: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
Another option would be to shoot PBlaster into it. That would hurt any o-rings but you'd want to replace those during a rebuild anyhow. Maybe try that first, before the oil.
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 3:01 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8207
Re: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
" and Toyota want over $200 for a BPV" Sometimes the are plain old fashioned f*ing nuts. Last time I needed a windshield, Toyota wanted over $900 for just the glass. SafeLite did the whole installation for something like $250. Maybe putting the entire assembly in a pan of oil and heating i...
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:55 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8207
Re: Brake Proportioning Valve Issue
Get a black rubber cork with a hole in the middle of it, oddly still sold by Ace Hardware in the drawer of nuts & bolts & odd parts, and bolt or jam a Schraeder valve fitting into the middle. Jam the cork in the housing, put an air pressure hose on it, poof, the valve body should blow out. W...
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:50 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: brake lights are on when car is off
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6751
Re: brake lights are on when car is off
AFAIK, if that switch loosens up the lights won't turn on, so the odds are it is jamming or failing internally. I think I'd just replace it to make sure. 28? years on a "floor" switch must just be enough. Shouldn't be expensive.
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:55 pm
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: totalled, please advise
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14361
Re: totalled, please advise
When I finally (literally) laid the law down to my insurer, who oddly enough has a great reputation, the rep's manager called me back and said I had literally put her in tears. I said tears is better than jail, because if I'd had a recording she'd be going to jail on extortion charges. "Take th...
- Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:41 am
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: totalled, please advise
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14361
Re: totalled, please advise
sideways- Yes, you can always get a carrier to agree your car is worth more and they'll be glad to charge you more every month. If I tell 'em my car is worth $50,000, they'll write the policy and charge me for it. But that's money down the toilet, because when it comes time to make a claim, a differ...
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:08 pm
- Forum: Want to BUY (seeking sellers)
- Topic: WTB: Solex lock set
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1785
Re: WTB: Solex lock set
You are aware, that "tube" locks like the Solex or Ace are considered pick-resistant, but very easy to slap out? They change the way someone can get into your car, but they don't make it any harder to get in. In some ways, they can make it simpler. Of course if your cylinders are just all ...
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 4:05 pm
- Forum: TECH: Corolla AE86
- Topic: Quick Headlight / High Beam Question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3965
Re: Quick Headlight / High Beam Question
When you pull the stalk towards you, that is so you can flash the high beams at any time. If you let go, the stalk goes back to the "off" position all by itself. If you push the stalk towards the dashboard, while the headlights are on, it should switch them from low beam to high beam, and ...
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 2:45 pm
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: totalled, please advise
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14361
Re: totalled, please advise
Wheels can be listed with an insurer as "permanently installed equipment" on the car, if you have comprehensive. Basically, anything that has been professionally bolted in or added on, that you have a receipt for, can be added to a policy and noted as an increase in the value of a car. So ...
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 2:40 pm
- Forum: TECH: 4A-GE ENGINE
- Topic: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11867
Re: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
Depending on what the "small chip" is, you may be able to clean it off and fill it with JBWeld, or take it to a machine shop, where they can fill it by welding and then grinding it back down. So while you're waiting to find a new one, check around, see if there's a machine shop in the area...
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 10:01 am
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: totalled, please advise
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14361
Re: totalled, please advise
"If you had included comprehensive on your policy," Not so simple on old riceburners. What an insurer will pay depends on how the policy has been written and what your state laws require. Typically their payout is limited to "book value" or "market value" and state laws...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:08 pm
- Forum: TECH: 4A-GE ENGINE
- Topic: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11867
Re: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
One would think.
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 4:10 pm
- Forum: TECH: 4A-GE ENGINE
- Topic: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11867
Re: 4AGE Silvertop won't start
You might also consider the timing belt, while you are working with it. If it has miles on it, or if it was stressed, just take a good look and consider putting in a new one while you're doing the work. Or just ordering a new one ahead of time, and replacing it. In the worse case you'd have the olde...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 2:16 pm
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: totalled, please advise
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14361
Re: totalled, please advise
Things disappear in storage yards. Police yards, insurance yards, doesn't matter whose yard, wheels, engines, all sorts of things just disappear overnight. So if you can keep it at home? Way better. And of course since you had one tow already, this way you don't argue over who pays for the next tow,...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:53 pm
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: What Parts NEEDED in the AE86/4AG Market (5/8/2014)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 63544
Re: What Parts NEEDED in the AE86/4AG Market (7/19/2013)
Anything to do with "stainless" tends to make people run and hide. Or ask for a blank check and your wallet. I tend to think of forges and casting as two different operations, and a lot of casting houses can't work with stainless, it demands more than other metals. But there are plenty of ...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:19 pm
- Forum: Fun Talk
- Topic: What Parts NEEDED in the AE86/4AG Market (5/8/2014)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 63544
Re: What Parts NEEDED in the AE86/4AG Market (3/29/2013)
An iron foundry to cast stainless steel brackets??
I would have thought the brackets needed to be stamped or forged, not cast. I'd think you're going to need a machine shop or CAD milling, not a forge for that.
I would have thought the brackets needed to be stamped or forged, not cast. I'd think you're going to need a machine shop or CAD milling, not a forge for that.