The Mercedes S500 fixed in August now has another problem. The ASR light turned on. Reading the code, it was caused by the malfunction of the throttle body. It was installed as below and it was not easy to remove. The throttle body Those p…

Below photos are the comparison how 2 thermostats for a 1UZ-FE engine work. The left one is 13 years old 145,000km and the right one is just new. The digital thermometer is indicating degrees C. The old one did not show any problem when us…

Below is a Uniden 2020 owned by an amateur radio station JA2B??. There were several problems and I was requested to revive this. Uniden 2020 Uniden 2020 upper side view This is a short wave transceiver for 80-10m band. It was started to se…

In order to replace the O ring used at the Caldina's engine oil pump, you have to remove the timing belt because the pump is driven by that. At first I needed to remove the crank pulley. It required a SST but I hadn't any for this engine 3…

Wet power steering pump When I was driving the Caldina, I noticed an oil burning smell when climbing up the hill. There was no smell when running flat roads. 10 months ago I have fixed the high-mount LED brake light of the car and since th…

What I've got Small particles Large particles These are what I've got from the automatic transmission of my UCF21. There are small particles and large particles. These were coming out from the strainer. Large particles are FIPGs. Small one…

97 UCF20 Celsior's failed Capacitor Type PF(M) 98 UCF21 Celsior has the same type PF(M) Capacitors too For the past several weeks I have been writing about those electrolytic capacitor issues used for the ECU of the LS400 or the Celsior at…

This is an update of http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/7121320.html I drove 264.7Km both in the city and the suburb after I have cleaned the MAF sensor last week. I filled the gas yesterday and the car drank 28.33L. The gas mileage was 264.…

My biggest car was a bit down of the gas mileage these days and I am about to enhance O2 sensors. But the gas mileage drop of the car is often caused by the clogged MAF (Massive Air Flow) sensor. The enhancement of the O2 sensor should be …

During summer seasons, an aged man like me has to be careful for the illness called the thermoplegia or the heatstroke or in Japanese 熱中症. My father has once hospitalized working outside in a very warm summer day by this. I don't want t…

I just have finished to set up a rear view camera for a Diahatsu Tanto spending only 300 Yen + my efforts. The Rear view camera The Close view The Side view I found the camera at the Yahoo Auction. It was priced only 100 Yen. The seller wa…

My another relative was worrying about her car. It was very noisy. A big squeaking noise was coming out from the engine compartment room. It was as if a cat and a dog were fighting under the hood. It was so loud that you could easily notic…

One of my relatives owns a Mercedes Benz W140 S500 below and it has been running strong but recently it got a trouble. The electric cooling fan keeps running and it never stops while the engine is on. The fan used to run only when the car …

It was the end of 2011 when I have reported the situation of the oil catching tank for a Honda Life at here. http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/2499129.html It has been almost 8 months since then and the total distance ran was about 3000km a…

Gas price past 17 years Above graph was originally here with the original size. http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~furuk_tm/gti_data/price.htm I have asked the site owner to use it and got a permission. He owns a VW Golf 3 GTI -16V for many years …

The broken Timing light The label attached I was asked to fix a timing light shown above when I was visiting a shop owner who runs a Porsche repair shop called the Garage Neunmeister or in Japanese ガレージノインマイスター. I knew he had …

Key-less remote commander The key-less remote commander for my family's Caldina has been missing and we needed a new one. Asking a dealer to sell and program the car is a general idea. But I love junks and I don't try such a simple and ea…

To make a long story short, the mirror monitor is fixed and now it is working. The fixed mirror monitor There were two fundamental problems in the circuit. I would say those were design failures. Look at below. The resonance capacitor. On…

The photo below is a rear view mirror monitor for 990 Yen. It says “電源入りませんでした” or “No power” with a tag of 990 Yen. The rear view mirror with a built-in LCD panel As soon as I saw it at the shop UpGarage near by, two persons ins…

This is one of the bad examples of the variation. I happened to find the photo above at http://automaya.ti-da.net/e1683101.html . The TDC sensor has a damage at the top. It has obviously touched the pips judging from the width and the loc…

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/5322051.html continued 4 pips at the E07Z Cam pulley The TDC sensor detects 4 different timings from the cam pulley when it fully rotates. The above photo [4 pips at the E07Z Cam pulley] is the side view o…

The photo below shows the resonator connected to the air cleaner box. This was blocking to see the place where the problem was caused. I never have thought a very important bolt was missing and 3 others were loose under this. The resonato…

A friend of mine who runs a printing company still needs to use his Mac G4s for his business since the printing industry uses Mac widely. Problem is one of his Mac G4 has no power problem. He has been trying to fix it but he had no luck. I…

Upper side Bottom side It has a coaxial cable. It says, SONY at the upper side and at the bottom side ECM-AC2 but it has nothing to do with SONY's electlet condenser microphone at all. Inside of the case has a home made SHF antenna for a …

Below is the high-mount LED brake light for my family's car Toyota Caldina ST-215G. As you see the photo, two LEDs indicated by arrows are less brighter than others. The name Caldina is not familiar to US people. The car has been sold in E…

The LED Brake lights for 1 more car. Can you tell which side has LEDs inside? The answer is the left side. The right side has bulbs inside. They almost look the same but there are differences in power consumptions and the delay to light on…

I wrote this back in October last year. http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/998173.html In that blog, I have written,” I will write more about the change of the timing belt later.” But I forgot it and now I remembered it. Below is the way how…

I have tried to use high power LEDs for brake lights as an experiment for a Daihatsu Move. I used the LED array shown below. This array is originally designed and made to use for backlights application such as LCDs or room lights. It has a…

The cost down. Toyota's way Look at the photo below. This is the ECU for Celsior UCF21 engine 1UZ-FE. There exist gold plated pins and non plated pins. I laughed looking at this. The expensive car Celsior even has this type of cost downs …

My car generates the ignition noise and it interferes the radio equipments. As long as I listen to AM radio stations nearby, it is not serious but once I try to catch short wave radio signals from abroad, it is very annoying and serious. …