What Did You Do To Your 3rd Gen Today?
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mysunroofworks
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Decided today was the day to replace the timing belt and water pump. Worked out well, because as I pulled into my driveway several days ago from a Colorado trip I could hear the water pump making a grinding noise. Sure enough, pulled it and it's hosed, so far so good. I started on the tensioner, no dice I need a short 12mm which of course is the only one I DON'T have :embarassed: . No worries, I'll pull the cam gears...
:frusty: That's NOT supposed to look like that!
I have noticed the occasional backfire every now and then, hopefully this is the culprit, I can't imagine the timing was that off however?? Sadly, I have to wait until monday to get to the junkyard...
:frusty: That's NOT supposed to look like that!
I have noticed the occasional backfire every now and then, hopefully this is the culprit, I can't imagine the timing was that off however?? Sadly, I have to wait until monday to get to the junkyard...
JoeT4R
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You go with OEM parts?
Sure did. I always try to get OEM parts.
JBurt
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Fixed my broken floppy mirror with a junkyard doner, and upgraded it with a steel pin. More details in my build
2023-08-14_10-53-09 by Jeff Burt, on Flickr
2023-08-14_10-53-35 by Jeff Burt, on Flickr
2023-08-14_10-53-09 by Jeff Burt, on Flickr2023-08-14_10-53-35 by Jeff Burt, on Flickr
ibob4tacoz
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Went to the junkyard and snagged some bits for my 3G interior. The dome light/sunglass holder I found at the yard still had the little nubs for the garage door opener in it!
habanero
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Hmmmm that big silver thing...mmmmhmmmm mmmmhmmmm
that other stuff I'll have to stay tuned
assume ur talking about the tcase off to the side of the fuel filter I was trying to highlight in the pic...? thought id posted a pic of said at some point
Endlessblockades
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Poor thing. RIP. What was the moment of failure like - just a cessation of forward movement? Noises? Did it whine for a year prior (like mine)?
habanero
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You probably did...I forget things, even cool things. So yep, the atlas. I wasn't sure what the fuel filter was, but that makes sense.
took it on what would've been an 8k mile round trip to Alaska and back, off roading where I could find it and loaded with ~300 pounds. almost made all the way back. at around 5k miles into the trip I started getting rough shifting, and code p770. tried a few trans drain and fills. helped a while but then started whine noise at around 6k that went away when warm. I was determined to get home because of some family things that came up. at around 7k I noticed a loss of power and a rattle, few hundred miles later A/T temp light came on and lots of winning. I pulled over to let it cool. did that a few hundred miles, drive then let cool. then in the home stretch during a steep segment of highway the light came on and the engine raced getting no power to the wheels and there was some smoke. I knew it was over. now, when the fluid is cold, it will only crawl at walking speed on level ground, most of its torque getting lost in the sloshing fluid it seems.
Endlessblockades
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Thank you - very descriptive. Do you plan to replace the transmission?
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