Recent content by Thorax

Tps HI Audiebox, oh damn timing right now...I'm leaving tomorrow on a 2 month trip, so I can't give you a very detailed update on what I did in the end, and what not... remind me in two month and I can do... just quick light update: meanwhile I sold that car and left Australia, but yeah...

Asking what? Anyway, I have troubles to get the gaskets on the way down to the head cover gaskets. in detail, not even one gasket is available. It's just oil what I loose, so I decided to not changing the rocket cover gaskets any longer - to risky with the other missing gaskets... but still...

who has experience with changing head cover gaskets at the 3VZE engine - what experiences you had with other gaskets on the way to reach the head covers properly. of course in general it would be the best to replace all gaskets, can't be wrong. but is it also probably necessary? whats your...

I have the FSM. but unfortunately only on my computer. so far I had no option and time to print every damn single file...does somebody has the FSM in one pdf-file? (I'm just on my way to it, but step by step...) ...what is the decel fuel cut circuit about/what is it supposed to do? in what...

No, I don't have. Why you asking me this? And to be honest, so far I don't know how such a test would look like. May you wonder why I directly go to the TPS? Because I had earlier already an error code for the TPS. When doing the stuff around the throttle body, I will follow the steps...

HI at all ;) so, the next weekend comes closer, I'm up to do some stuff around my engine. and asking for your experiences and advises. what I'm up to: solving problem with struggling idle/stalling engine --> checking/adjusting TPS replace rocket cover gaskets (= cylinder head cover...

Thank you Kid for that detailed link! Unfortunately the next two weekends I'll have no option to work on my car, but the weekend after, I'll. I'll let you know how it worked out. Cheers

condensed Ok, let me see, what we have. My V6 struggles with it's idle. I only recognize this, when the engine is warmed up. when it's getting hotter under the hood, the engine even stalls in idle! as seen in the posts before, kind of a not so rarely problem with that engine. but it turns...

seems like pretty much the same problem Hello to everybody, it seems like, that I may have pretty much the same problem. I was already helpless and yesterday was the forum down, so I couldn't read this thread here. So I prepared already a post for starting my own thread for the specific prob...

G'day from Down Under! haven’t post here before, but were reading here and then in the last year for some advices etc. thanks to the community to keep knowledge around our trucks and how to fix them etc. online alive. ;) now it happened, that I need a bit more help. Only Google and forum...

one more around hey mates, one more proud owner here. just bought mine in march from a dealer in sydney with 304k. running good, only a broken injection seal was bad/expensive to fix suddenly... anyway, I'm in Darwin now. looking forward to do some more maintenance, and running to east coast...