Recent content by Sdsupra760

Have you figured it out....? I think it could be an embrionic headgasket leak or cracked cylinder head. Possibly cylier 3. How many miles on the motor? Somewhere beween 175k -220k? Could be that once the head gets warm the crack seals up and when it sits and cools the crsck gets bigger since it...

Lol! A vote for hillary. That would be terrible

You say the trans is slipping and your concern is frozen fluid? Im confused. Well anyways if it was slippin that prob means ur fluid is getting real hot which means it is going to expand a lot which then means it is maybe coming out the vent on top of the trans by the bellhousing. Either way if...

I use nothing but factory seals when it comes to engine gaskets whether i bought them directly from the dealer or sourced them from the aftermarket supplier that makes the part for toyota.. It gets sticky because technically all factory engine seals are aftermarket so to speak because toyota...

Ecus can go bad. Corroded or leaking capacitors. I have seen intermittant poor running fuel smelling exhaust on early lexus cars. Nothing you can do to test for it. Just have to take whatevr clues you can get and use experience and trust your gut. Maybe try opening ur ecu and look for leaking...

Dont dogg ur mechanics. Ur entightled to a second opinion. If hes an old timer he most likely knows what he is doing and all the usual suspects are not causing ur problem. That is usually the most frustrating and there is often no real tests for a bad ecu. All you can do it check everything in...

Pull the codes amd then get back. Could be a lot of different things. Highly doubtnits a fuel filter. It will not cause any sort of intermittsnt issue. And will only cause a lean top end. And it will be consistent. Took 190k miles to finally get my fuel filter to give probs on a tt 2jzgte supra...

You need to hook up a scanner and monitor your rear o2 sensor. If it is switching from high and low volts that means your cat is not doing its job. Just throwing parts at it is the wrong way to go about anything. If you cant afford a scanner it best to just pay someone to do it right the first...