Best thing I found for carbon was Chem Dip. It turns it to wipe or spray offable slime in 45 minutes. Cleaned the carbon out of my 1zzfe cylinders perfectly.
“The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the Hump” You man. Thanks for the video. I just picked up a 93 and, as I am known to do, I hit up RU-vid to dive in on knowledge. This series is so helpful. All the stuff I wanted to do. I still don’t know for sure if I have at super charger. I’m doing the full tune up this weekend and I’m about to order the SAD replacement parts. Really wish I could learn more about balancing it on RU-vid but I might have to do some actual reading. Mine runs great til I turn on the A/C. I’m afraid of what might happen if it fails. This series is the best of what’s on RU-vid. Thanks for sharing.
Hey there, you and I seem like kindred spirits 😂 I’m also previa obsessed and just picked up a $1200 one that I’m restoring on my channel as well. Keep it up!! Love seeing enthusiasts of these awesome cars and people saving them to live on!!
Funny enough I saw your video come up on my recommended and I was actually going to buy that exact Previa but it was a little too far for me to trailer it back to El Paso so I let it go but I'm glad it went to a great home! I've had many many Previas and they're the best old minivan you can buy in my opinion, a little difficult to work on for some but the reliability is unbeatable. Although I don't recommend a supercharged one like mine because the roots supercharger makes them far more irritable than a naturally aspirated one, I like my regular Previa much more. Good luck on your Previa restoration if you need any kind of obscure info you can leave a comment (because I read all my comments) or email my business email (apapanos@yahoo.com) and I'll respond. I'll be watching to see the progress!
@@tommccabe1019 because the avocado colored toilet is more aesthetically pleasing and matches the other avocado green things in the bathroom, plus it’s been fully rebuilt so it should be good for awhile
There will be one more video on the gold Previa before its sold and then I have another Previa after that to work on so yes there will be more Previa/Tarago content lol
She actually just messaged me earlier today about Previa related stuff, I've been following along with her project since it came up on my recommended. Maybe there will be a crossover episode haha
When I was younger (younger than you) I would use Marvel Mystery Oil to loosen stuck pistons. Worked like magic. Timestamp 2:09. Evidence that Jimmy had or has a girlfriend.
When I was looking for a car a few years back I had settled on one of these model vehicles as the 1.4 cu inch is very dependable but the person who had it advertised on Craigslist never answered their e-mails. So I settled for a 2011 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. It's a much more fun car.
Just got a 1999 for 1 dollar garage queen, 80k and mint.Just not serviced in many years. Chrome wheels lexus centers, flawless interior. gonna use it service it pass it on. Got oil leak. Everything works except radio screen. Had 2 offers while getting smogged. I dont need 4 cars..
What if I wanted to put a radio with the usb feature in my car that originally only had the aux cable option how would I do that? Also if I got a face plate from a Chevy which the buttons have blue lights and put it in a Pontiac which are red lights how would I change that?.
You know whats weird is the guy I sold this car to gave it to his daughter and she still drives the damn thing! Chevys will run like crap longer than a lot of cars will run at all lol. I saw it around town a few times in slightly worse physical condition but still putting around
Ive seen one of these have 1 million miles on it and still ran with no chek engine light on or anything. These are some of the most reliable cars ever made. Treat it right and ot will treat you right.
God bless you, sir. I had just left the dealership after making an appointment because my radio froze up. I pulled the fuse and reset it. It worked! 2018 model.
Man, I just came across this channel and this shit is gold! Hope you keep posting, the vids are fun as hell. You'll probably pick up steam in the algo at some point
@@emansfveranot this model of lexus. The LS is the winner bit expensive & sucks on gas. [same engine era as camrys] The 3rd gen es300 was better than the 250 but their 1mz-fe engines were mid-low quality. It overheats & sludges up too quickly and needs oil change every 3-4k miles. It leaks oil too and repairing it is impossible like the 2gr-fe toyota engine, you would have to replace the entire engine with another one from junk. The 00-01 years have bad transmissions and they don't age too well. I had one before. The radiator & hose kept blowing up every few years. This car right now is just too old to be reliable today. It will last less than 1 year if you picked up a used one (you will notice problems within the 1st month). The es300 ends at 2003, es330 had the better engine, but all of lexus engines up until the 2020s i think has t-belts & interference engines, so watch out! I would avoid any cars older than mid 2000s.
Glad you’re uploading again! My friend has an xA, it’s a good little car (I do love me a Toyota) a shame people can’t even change oil regularly. Hope a headgasket is all it needs
I have a 2009 Vibe with the 1.8 engine. On truly cold starts (like the car has sat overnight) the car will start right up - no problems. If it has only been sitting an hour or two though, the car will struggle to start. I don't have to keep cranking, but it will stumble and falter until it really catches, and then will smooth out and behave normally. During that stumble and struggle I will hear the VVTI gear rattle just very briefly. On normal starts I do not hear it at all. Possible suspects: 1) dirty throttle body 2) Mass Air Filter sensor 3) fuel pump 4) VVTI gear 5) Spark plugs / coils 6) clogged fuel injectors. Any other ideas? I'd appreciate anyone's opinion and advice on how to diagnose for certain.
That gen of 1.8L ALL rattle a little so I'm not too concerned about that. The big hint is that it only does it after heat soaking and not on a cold start so you can eliminate the throttle body as a suspect. I doubt a plug or coil would produce a symptom like that or you'd get a misfire of some sort. My guesses would be a failing fuel pump, a dying coolant temp sensor, or a wonky MAF sensor. I've also seen a failing cam/crank sensor cause that issue in vehicles that use the 1.8L, some forums I used to go on swear the starter is the issue because it heat soaks and then bendix gets stuck causing a hard-start but you say it stumbles so I wouldn't go with that one in this case
@@jimmyjimjims7483 Yes, no misfires and it always cranks ok. I'll try cleaning the MAF and see if that changes anything. How do I test for the fuel pump? Is there any other symptom of the dying coolant temp sensor?
@@StromBugSlayer There's no real test for the fuel pump other than getting a fuel pressure tester and screwing it into the fuel rail to see if your fuel pressure is bleeding off when the car is warm vs when its cold. If the pump is going bad you'll have low fuel pressure when the car is warm or your fuel pressure will slowly drop off instead of staying steady. If you had a bad fuel injector that was dripping overnight it would dump fuel into the oil therefore your oil would smell like gas and be thinner but that would make it hard to start when cold not when hot so that's why I don't think its an injector. A dying coolant temp sensor is usually only diagnosed with an OBD2 scanner because you need it to read the temp from the ECM while cold and while slightly warm/hot. If the MAF is what is causing it one way to test it is unplug the MAF (with the car off and then start the car) and see if the car improves at all, the car's ECM will see that the MAF is unplugged and default to a base setting to keep fuel trims "normal". This will however trigger a check engine light so you'd have to have an OBD2 scanner to turn the light off. I'd clean the MAF first (because that's the easiest thing to do) and see if that improves it. If you don't have access to an OBD2 scanner its usually best to just take the car to have it diagnosed so they can deal with all that nonsense lol
