About 6 weeks ago, I have written about the additional blow by gas line for Honda Life. (http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/2152360.html) The home made oil catching tank now contains some liquid which looks like a milk coffee this much. The …

My car has a longer front nose compared with other my cars in the past and I always have a difficulty to see the right and the left at a blind spot. I decided to install a front camera which helps me to view those. I happened to succeed to…

I was requested to fix a broken TV. According to the owner of the TV, the back light turns off within 10 minutes after the power on. As I checked it, it worked perfectly for more than an hour. In order to duplicate the problem, I have kep…

I found a security system dBDog CS-100 tagged only 990 Yen at my local parts shop. I first thought it was 9900 Yen and I asked the man in the shop, “You must forgot to put one more 0.” He replied, “No. it is 990 Yen sharp.” I asked the rea…

My Celsior has a slight vibration when the engine is running at higher than 2200rpm. As I push the gas pedal, it becomes worth at 2500rpm and disappears at 2800rpm. Judging from the sound and the vibration, I first thought it was caused b…

My family's Honda Life once had this much of sludge. The valve cover. I wonder why the engine E07Z has built up so much of sludge. As I search the net, I find there are many E07Z engines that have too much sludge like below. http://kuruma…

I sometimes enjoy the morning service menu at the coffee shop named Onsa in my town. This is a typical Japanese style light meal except a cup of coffee. A rice ball, a cup of miso soup, an omelet and pickled vegetables are served in addit…

The door lock/unlock actuator for the passenger’s side door was fixed by me the other day and it has been working perfectly. As I check it fast and repeatedly, the top cover of the switch has come off. It is broken as is shown below. The p…

So far, I only have been writing about my car or my family’s car. Today, I will write about a car owned by a friend of us. This is an engine for Daihatsu Mira 69,000km. Our friend owns the car and she has not changed the engine oil for som…

At the idling I noticed an unusual sound coming out of the Celsior's engine 1UZ-FE. It was a kind of whistle from the front part of the engine. I thought it was from the throttle body but actually it was from the hose connected to it, I f…

My Celsior has a CD unit which doesn’t work for sometime now. I happened to succeed to fix the broken door lock / unlock actuator the other day and the next project I am in a mood to do is the CD unit. Removing the unit and opening the up…

My Celsior had an intermittent problem that the passenger’s side door couldn’t be locked nor unlocked by the remote switchs. It happened once in a while and the re-trying was mostly effective to work. But recently the symptom is getting wo…

I have needed to replace a timing belt for Daihatsu Move LS900 owned by my family member. The biggest problem to me was that I didn't have any special equipments nor tools for that except simple tools which average Americans own. I only ha…

These spark plugs were used for 13 years without changing for 145,000km in 1UZ-FE engine for Celsior UCF21. The other 4 plugs are not pictued but they look exactly the same. Using a gauge, I measured the gaps and the results were all 1.12…

I don't want you to feel uncomfortable seeing this but I want you to know how the throttle valve became clogged by the carbon. This is the throttle valve of my old Celsior UCF21. The lower half was just cleaned by the rag above with alcoho…

Setting up the tachometer helped me to find the cause of unusual problems and showed me the solutions. One thing that made me to worry before was the over heat indicator turning on sometimes although the engine was still cold because it wa…

Can you believe it? You only need 300 Yen for these. The coffee, the bread with butter and azuki, the delicious Chawan-mushi and 2 different salads with the grape fruit. Have you ever heard of Ichinomia Morning Service? There are many coff…

Looking for parts for Macs to repair, I found this in my junk box. It's a current meter sized a floppy disk bought more than a decade ago in Akihabara. Honda Life the car in my family doen't have a tachometer and I decided to fook this up…

What are those? Cat's eyes or some animal's eyes? It's a car with LED small lights.

I just have tried to change the spark plugs and I found the broken pipe at the blow-by gas line. How can I fix this? If I were a rich I would replace the whole the plastic unit.

I just have started my blog. I fix cars, radios, TVs and almost everything except human beings. I want share this to my good old American DIY friends.