What have you done to your ride lately?

[drew02a]

Well that sucks. I guess you could at least start by checking the compression of those two cylinders. Once again, sorry to hear!

What really sucks is that I'm supposed to leave town this weekend. Ordered my parts from Amazon and they should come in next Monday. Been thinking I should get another car, might go do that this week.

 

[TacoXpo]

What really sucks is that I'm supposed to leave town this weekend. Ordered my parts from Amazon and they should come in next Monday. Been thinking I should get another car, might go do that this week.

I sent a message to a friend with the same ride... I think he replaced his head gasket. Do you want a quick phone call tomorrow with him or a three-way - not that kind! But seriously, he's the crew chief on the race deal and a REAL NICE guy that is very helpful. I will let you know if he replaced his.

 

[drew02a]

I sent a message to a friend with the same ride... I think he replaced his head gasket. Do you want a quick phone call tomorrow with him or a three-way - not that kind! But seriously, he's the crew chief on the race deal and a REAL NICE guy that is very helpful. I will let you know if he replaced his.

Cool, thanks. Head gasket issues on the 4.5L aren't uncommon.

 

[TacoXpo]

He said he has about 6 albums - step-by-step.... trying to see if he has it online.

 

[drew02a]

He said he has about 6 albums - step-by-step.... trying to see if he has it online.

If it goes that route, at least there's plenty of room in the engine bay

 

[TacoXpo]

Hopefully it will be something simple.

Here are some of his photos on another one... I can't find the other album yet.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.167063286741486.34829.100003134476568&type=3

 

[TacoXpo]

I had a failure on a bimmer onetime that taught me the importance of changing and flushing anti-freeze. It was like an EDM cut a small path in the head gasket between the two cylinders!

 

[TacoXpo]

His Lexus!

 

[Silverback]

Hold my beer.. watch this!!!!

Yeeee Haaawwww...

 

[TacoXpo]

Hold my beer.. watch this!!!!

Yeeee Haaawwww...

!!!

Pismo is a dangerous place!!!

 

[drew02a]

Okay, I'm recalling now that it would miss a stroke or 2 about once a month since I owned it. Pretty sure it's gonna be the ignition system

 

[Death_Stalker]

!!!

Pismo is a dangerous place!!!

yeah but id still go to check out all the FAILs !!!

 

[TacoXpo]

Okay, I'm recalling now that it would miss a stroke or 2 about once a month since I owned it. Pretty sure it's gonna be the ignition system

Sounds good!

 

[PSU Taco85]

Working on the rear bumper. Painted and ready to cut the bedsides

 

[TacoXpo]

Oh how I would love someone to cut bedsides 1" longer and then bend them with a 1/8-1/4" radius so that they wouldn't flop around!

Are those flower cut-out lightening holes? Aloha!

 

[PSU Taco85]

Eric went a little overboard with his new dimple die toy, guess he needed somebody to test it out on

I better watch how high I cut these since the front mounting holes were a good 1/2" off rofl

 

[DemonSpeedn]

Got the rear drivers side window back on track and fixed the driver seat on the lc, now I can adjust it how I want to instead of being smashed up against the steering wheel

 

[thekidcatcher]

nice man. Ill be the first to welcome you out of the Taco club

 

[DemonSpeedn]

Got the rear drivers side window back on track and fixed the driver seat on the lc, now I can adjust it how I want to instead of being smashed up against the steering wheel

Follow up on this, fucked with the passenger seat some but I couldn't get it to stay aligned so I just set it back as far as I could and left it, fucking plastic gears are stupid. Horn and blinkers work now (fuse was missing for some reason) so all in all the minor things are all fixed so now I can come off the ledge of D-Tardem.

nice man. Ill be the first to welcome you out of the Taco club

Thanks bud

 

[drew02a]

Okay, I'm recalling now that it would miss a stroke or 2 about once a month since I owned it. Pretty sure it's gonna be the ignition system

I've now replaced the plugs, distributor cap and rotor, and used some spark plug wires I had laying around for the 4runner. Only thing I can think of now is that it's not getting enough compression for ignition. Gonna do a compression test in a couple hours when the sun goes down a bit.

Any other ideas?