Recent content by ajitaw

I have to do this! Both side doors are doing the 'ol double slap when closing. Where is the best place to get a full set of clips?

Hey guys, Just got my engine replaced in my '97 with a 2002 3.4... mine was blown (don't ask) :P When I first start it up it is fine but then after putting it into drive and driving it for a sec and putting it back in park it wants to idle up around 2000... Any ideas?

Yeah you can see the aftermath of that in the second pics... I wanted to see if I could tell if just the lifters were knocking. But it sounded a little deeper in the engine... and plus that chocolate milk was spraying everywhere....

Yeah you can see the aftermath of that in the second pics... I wanted to see if I could tell if just the lifters were knocking. But it sounded a little deeper in the engine... and plus that chocolate milk was spraying everywhere....

I got an ookkayyy deal on it... at least I thought at the time! I bought it for $5000 cash on the spot... I really like it though! This mechanic I just met might have an engine, but it's gonna cost me bigtime. And I tell ya... it takes about 15 minutes to pull that one valve cover, if I was...

It's got 158,000 miles... It drove fine when I test drove it and then POW! I bought it private party and now they are out of state... I'm trying to get them to help me out a bit... it looks like I'll have to do an engine swap. But thats another $2500 at least... man my luck has been the worst...

Damn you!! :bash: :D

The thing is, this problem with the sparkplug blowing out and now a horrible knocking may be something unrelated to the sludge.... I'm having a mechanic firend look at it tomorrow.

Ok guys... I thought I would make my first post a good one... I just bought a nice looking 97 Toyota 4Runner last week... 3 days later it blew a spark plug out, destroyed the coil and ruined the threads on the head. I re-tapped and threaded a new spark plug in and it seemed to work out. Now in...