Thank you so much for this video! A friend told me it’d be easy, I just realize how easy. Videos like these make owning a car and keeping it maintained so much easier.
Doesn't matter on octane, just make sure it's ethanol free. Also don't use starting fluid, it runs hotter. Try using choke & carb cleaner or brake cleaner in the red can.
Please, please, please tell us how you removed that connector to get to number 4. I've been trying for an hour to remove it. I've no idea how it is supposed to come off.
2007 subie, 123,000 mi. Followed instructions, cleared codes twice on a 500 mi trip, codes came back but when I refilled the tank and drove 20 more miles, code cleared itself and stayed off.
2:36 It's not a certain number of miles. In Toyota is a check, if the o2-sensor #2 (downstream, monitor sond) delivers more than 0.7 V, when the coolant reaches 83 °C or 181.4 °F. Look in the freeze frame - the coolant temperature is always the same. The question is: how to trick/influence/enhance the system to deliver more than 0.7 V at this point.
Thanks. Somewhere along the line, the original cap got replaced with some nondescript and the manual didn't have a photo of the location that I could find.
I did not need to and it worked fine after running the new gas through the carb, but the old gas in the carb was the likely root cause of the issue. I would have cleaned the carb manually if this did not work.
Every video you make to helps others to solves their problems with the car, maybe for other its very simple stuff, but trust me a lot of people out there still need someone like you, PLEASE keep it up man, have a great day my man.
If the car is overheating and there is no fluid in the overflow you will want to wait until the car is completely cooled down then add it directly to the radiator. You may also have a stuck thermostat, bad water pump, or a leak somewhere. If it is just on the low end then adding to the overflow will work just fine.
