Recent content by Clone of the Mean

I just dealt with that….. replaced one, then a week later another, a month later another…. Replace every hose you can find back there. It's isn't super hard. I had to buy some of those 14" long needle pliers for a few bucks at Auto Zone.

Husky. Everyone I know, wrench or wheel with has Craftsman tools. They all bicker over who's wrench is who's. What kid picked up the wrong tool and put it the wrong tool box. I don't worry. If it isn't Craftsman, it's mine! And I've never had a tool break

Go buy Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey and head west. I've lived in Arizona my whole life. His books are better than seeing the desert in person….

Hear the one about the deaf guy and the queer?

Sounds like a vacuum line got knocked off or broken…..Spray a little carb cleaner around where you were working. If the revs pick up, you're on the right track.

I have a 94 Runner. All Arizona miles. No sign of rust. You can buy it, ship across country and still be ahead of the game…..

I did a solenoid swap a few years ago. Of the 3, one is bigger than the other two. The big one is the money solenoid. The other two can go in either spot. The big one is the reverse solenoid if I remember correctly. Just remove and replace them one at a time, no problems. And when you...

I had a fan clutch that froze up on me last year. I replaced it and the new one made as much noise as the one I replaced. Finally after replacing it with 3 other warranty fans I went to a salvage yard and found a Toyota fan clutch from a pristine (rollover) 94 Runner. The motor had been...

Mine did that. Airdreams, I think it's called the cold idle start circuit sumpin or another. I just cut the ends off and hose clamped a new fuel line onto them. I had to pull the intake plenum off to find it, but I'm not sure if I had to take it off to repair the problem. Make sense? yeh, I...

When your stuff catches on fire cooler heads don't always prevail. The reason my Runner didn't go into a ball of flames is because whatever wasn't on fire already was soaking wet and unable to burn. Did I panic? Boy and How! If the hose wasn't right there, would I have made a run for the...

Well, hindsight is 20/20 and everyone has the right answer after the fact. Not being a trained firefighter I grabbed the first thing I saw. And no, gas and water don't mix. First fire I've ever had, first reaction to it was to grab the hose with the water running out of the end of it that...

It was all I had!!! I really considered pushing out into the street and letting it go just to save the house but all the doors were open. The back two couldn't be shut without moving it forward a little. I just grabbed the hose and went to town on it. The matting on the inside of the hood...

I removed my intake plenum after locating a fuel leak. But before I made the repair I want to double check for any more leaks. I doubled up the offending fuel line and clamped it shut. Not thinking about the fuel that had splashed all over the engine bay and never assuming the engine would...

So it turned out to be the cold idle hose coming from the fuel rail. $105 dealer only. I cut the ends off and am going to throw some fuel line on it and call it good…. I'm starting a new thread called "don't you hate it when"… I write my adventure there.

will do. I don't want to remove the intake if I don't have to…...