p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Seethe photo above. It's a clock spring used for a Mitsubishi ek-Wagon. It intermittently turned on the air bag warning light. A local car shop owner needed to fix it quickly and he asked me …

It has been 3 months since I wrote my blog last time. I have been busy as a community leader but I have some free time now and I just will update it. #1 upper crank bearing My trial to insert the #1 upper crank bearing was succeeded like t…

I have been busy these days and I haven't been able to do any. But Now I can write some. I only have showed you only 2 out of 4 lower crank bearings last time but I found the photo which included the other 2 of lower crank bearings below w…

As the 3rd item, I wanted to replace crank bearings and rod bearings as many as possible. Below are removed bearings. You can see upper side of rod bearings are worn out and the copper layers are exposed. Lower side rod bearings are also w…

I decide to do 4 items and see how the situations would be improved. 1, To remove the sludge. 2, To adjust the tappets. 3, To replace crank bearings and rod bearings as many as possible. 4, To replace the engine oil. The sludge around the …

I happened had a chance to fix a Subaru Pleo which had a mild charger. Subaru Pleo The odometer said 103,000km but the car ran very well driving in the city. Although it's not young but it looked still good. The only problem was the noisy …

I have fixed the door lock / unlock problem of passenger's side door 2 years ago just cleaning the inside of the motor. You can see it here. http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/1405005.html It has been working perfectly without any problem. T…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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 …

The camera installed at lower side of the bigger Toyota emblem . About two weeks ago, I wrote this. http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/2498266.html Although I have set up a front camera to the Toyota emblem at the radiator grill, it was not …