Keez Piano
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steering rack
The tires guys caught my tie rod and steering went mushy. Changed the rack.
Still has sway
The tires guys caught my tie rod and steering went mushy. Changed the rack.
Still has sway
New shoes... opted for more road-biased A/T's with the Continental TerrainContact's. Much quieter on road than the previous HT (some cheap off-brand the PO installed). Wife was a little shocked at the change, but I think she's over that now.
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My little 4 month old helper is Scully, the Irish Setter. Every bit as much trouble as you'd expect a redheaded irish lass to be too.
..then out of no place it quit running.
It can only be air/fuel or electrical. Did it turn off like a light switch, because that's almost certainly electrical. Or stumble, burble and take it's time to die, because that's classic fueling issues.
I'm going to hazard a guess at electrical, and it's Probably something like the crank/cam position sensor. May not even be the sensor itself, but the Connector that wasn't fully seated the last time it came apart (for, say, cleaning the MAF, IAC, etc...) Might be worth your time to grab a can of DeOxit (best electrical contact cleaner on the market) and simply start pulling apart connectors, hosing them down and then reconnecting them. Focus on the ones that tend to be essential for running (sorry, I've no clue which as I haven't had electrical issues yet and haven't hard to learn).
Good luck
I think he's commiserating with your troubleshooting experience... I once could not get the AC to work on my 1st gen and the issue indeed turned out to be that a switch needed to be unplugged and plugged back in.
Have you checked all the grounds that interface with that circuit?
kicked it....yelled bad words at it....
was headed out to meet a friend to moose hunt. ( he went hours earlier) ...then out of no place it quit running...in the middle of bum frick no place...wilderness....no cell reception...and cb's dont work for much distance up here...gravel road...well at this point in the world there is no pavement.....
did not have my torque pro app on....so was not watching anything .
cranked and cranked.....nothing...looked at everything logical,....wiggled wires etc...sat and said.....fu*k
few minutes later started right up.....tough decision...keep going or turn back....
kept going...hey hunt...duhhh.........met my friend... we looked it over...could not find anything strange and at that point it was running fine...start up...shut down...start up repeat...all good....we did not get a moose..(.I got one 3 weeks ago so freezer full anyway)
drove home...about 140 miles ( near the yukon/artic circle, where gas is 7.35 a gallon...what)...no issues.. this time I watched my torque pro big time....nothing unusual.... got home then an hour later had to run to town to get grandson 20 minutes and 2 start ups...no issues. checked everything...even my blinker fluid
no codes...no rough running.....aliens ?
tomorrow I will check all the ground connections I can get my hands on
up here...when the snow hits next month....i dont want this game
btw...last month...full tune up ( plugs wires pcv) throttle body removed and it and icv as well as maf cleaned and new gaskets,,,all fluids changed ( engine, trans , diffs, p/s and cooling flushed )...air, tranny and fuel filter changed too. so rule them out...that was about 1000 miles ago.
Apologies, I just lost my best friend that passed from an Aneurysm.
The thing is, I was just walking him through a charging system issue on his 01 Taco with a 3.4 just at 48hrs before he passed and he seemed fine at the time. Anyway he was very happy to have found the charging issue and I was glad I could help a friend in need.
Interacting and the conversation that night is something I'll remember for the rest on my life. He might as well be my brother as I don't have any.
My ecu issue wasn't a serious issue and I didn't put it out there to be taken as such.
In comparison on whats happening around us, most problems we are facing are small.
Ya, I had the dvm out and was checking voltages throughout the connectors. The puzzling part was voltages, grounds and connections checked out.
Unplugging and plugging back in worked for you. And that solved my issue too. Strange issue.
I just lost my best friend that passed from an Aneurysm.
Ignition cylinder maybe? Do you have a lot of crap hanging on your keychain? Never heard of problems with Toyota but I think GM and some others had problems with that. Go over a bump and the force from the weight of the keys cut the ignition.
I hired someone from craigslist to replace valve cover gasket and thermostat, he didn't install the ring gasket to the thermostat, I hope it will work, but the valve cover job is horrible horrible, because there are 4 missing bolts and nuts, and i missing stud, he said it's ok, the plenum cover is still secure, it was 1 wk ago, and I am still looking to buy the missing bults/nuts, I just can't find them, no more mobile mechanic !!!