What Did You Do To Your 3rd Gen Today?
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5spd3rdgenSpe
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Full detail + 3d printed mud flaps to keep the dirt off the paint. Supra steering wheel coming soon.
Today I attempted to fix a turn light somone stole off my car inside of a parking lot. (Keyword attempted) instead I blew 8 fuses and now after leaving car sit running you will see a spark and then start smoking from some wire going into the fuse box would love some inside on what to do.
counterculture
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full cut & polish + wax and added some shine to the trim around the windows...managed to get rid of so many west coast pinstripes, and she really feels like a brand new rig
If it were me, first thing I would figure out where the spark is coming from. A spark has a voltage source somewhere that's jumping a gap that it shouldn't. The insulation on a wire is stripped back, a bare wire is too close to a ground point, whatever. Once you find and fix that problem, you'll stop blowing fuses, smoke-checking wires, and so forth.
Repair the problem causing the spark to appear, repair all the wires that have been smoking, since the insulation will now be brittle, and flake off easily, etc. A thing that will help you track down the spark is that since you blow 8 fuses when it happens, what is common to all those fuses. SOMEthing is feeding all those fuses.
Good luck!
Pat☺
Repair the problem causing the spark to appear, repair all the wires that have been smoking, since the insulation will now be brittle, and flake off easily, etc. A thing that will help you track down the spark is that since you blow 8 fuses when it happens, what is common to all those fuses. SOMEthing is feeding all those fuses.
Good luck!
Pat☺
Endlessblockades
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Pic please.......
The MK4 that looks like a 4Runner or a 3-spoke or something more exotic?
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2TH4IST
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It was, they were coated brembo rotors, so i could not see the crack. So once I bedded them in, I noticed a crack. It was under warranty, so got a replacement. I just drove it a bit and was to busy to actually get in there and replace it.
My first and only brembo rotor that failed. I've ran them for years with zero issues. I'll still keep running them as they are good quality for the cost.
My first and only brembo rotor that failed. I've ran them for years with zero issues. I'll still keep running them as they are good quality for the cost.
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I only bought Brembo rotors once, for my '01 GS430. They both had cracks within one year, something I've never seen on any other rotors. So weird, given how legendary the Brembo name is.
2TH4IST
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Wild, that sucks that it happened to you. I've had good luck with them, but maybe their quality went belly up? I've run brembo, Cardone, stop tech, Napa, raybesto, and wilwood. Worst one I ever had was wilwood, which is surprising as they are a known racing brake manufacture, their friction rings are just horrid.
Changed...well, no, installed shifter bushings last week so I could break the habit of wiggling it side to side and thinking it was in neutral. Seriously, there was nothing in there that would indicate there had ever been bushings. Not even ground up bits.
Changed shift solenoids last night, so it now shifts 1-2 like a normal automatic instead of like somebody trying to drive an 18 speed for the first time on a hill while drunk. I guess after a third of a million miles, some things wear out.
Got some ABS filament that's a pretty good match for the previous owner's bedliner paint job, and a roll of brown pretty close to the stock interior, so I'm slowly replacing various sun-rotted plastic inside with "custom accents."
Aside from thingiverse, anybody know of a good collection of 3D models of parts that could be printed for these? Of course the clock is dead, so I'm working on modding the phone mount front plate of the clock bezel phone mount design to a magnet mount instead of the ball that just doesn't want to print at the right size for me anyway.
Changed shift solenoids last night, so it now shifts 1-2 like a normal automatic instead of like somebody trying to drive an 18 speed for the first time on a hill while drunk. I guess after a third of a million miles, some things wear out.
Got some ABS filament that's a pretty good match for the previous owner's bedliner paint job, and a roll of brown pretty close to the stock interior, so I'm slowly replacing various sun-rotted plastic inside with "custom accents."
Aside from thingiverse, anybody know of a good collection of 3D models of parts that could be printed for these? Of course the clock is dead, so I'm working on modding the phone mount front plate of the clock bezel phone mount design to a magnet mount instead of the ball that just doesn't want to print at the right size for me anyway.
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96RedRunner
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These Brembo's that are cracking are they cross drilled with cracks at thru holes?
If so welcome to the party that the downside of cross drilled, been the norm
in SCCA decades. Throw in QC lack thereof of the times can see it happening on street use now days.
A Miata can make em crack
If so welcome to the party that the downside of cross drilled, been the norm
in SCCA decades. Throw in QC lack thereof of the times can see it happening on street use now days.
A Miata can make em crack
Spiker Engineering
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These Brembo's that are cracking are they cross drilled with cracks at thru holes?
If so welcome to the party that the downside of cross drilled, been the norm
in SCCA decades. Throw in QC lack thereof of the times can see it happening on street use now days.
A Miata can make em crack
Mine were not drilled.
JBurt
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Neither were mine, but drilled drums would be weird.
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96RedRunner
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[MENTION=636945]Spiker Engineering[/MENTION] Recent purchase, haven't been around Brembo 20 yrs. then an anomaly now/recently probably spec manufacturing changes for profit.
[MENTION=84643]JBurt[/MENTION] Ha yea that's where my mind went, is it doable beneficial playing with hole layout etc. weird maybe.
[MENTION=84643]JBurt[/MENTION] Ha yea that's where my mind went, is it doable beneficial playing with hole layout etc. weird maybe.
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