This desulfator makes pulses shown below and this sure can revive sulfated batteries. p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } Currentwaveform to a battery 40B. Y=2A/div, X=1us/div X: 5μsec/div. Cycle is about 50μsec with …

The photo below shows a part of failed ECU for a 96 Mirage 115000km. It didn't communicate with a scanner.The car had an engine fluctuating problem too. A local dealership manager asked me for a help sending me a message below. "We are hav…

L275S ミラの盗難警報が誤動作してお困りの方が多く、近くのショップ でも、それでお困りでした。店主様からSOSをもらい、その根本原因を 調べたので、日本語でサマリーを先に書いておきます。アメリカの友達たち 向けに私が書いているブログは、英語で書く…

My local car shop owner asked me for a help. He was having a problem with a non working tachometer used for a 93 Celica GT. He has tried to replace the tachometer but it was totally impossible to obtain any new or used one. The car is 25 y…

This time, I was requested to fix a NEC PC-LL750F26B. It has a CPU Core i7-2670QM and the memory 8GB. It's not very new but it's too early to discard. As you see the photo below, it says Core i7. The label says, "CORE i7". I have once expe…

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 …

Although I'm not a professional car repair guy but I often have requests to help to fix troubled cars by local shop owners these days. Why? Because they expect me to fix cars that can't be fixed by mechanics. They are not good at modern ca…

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } My mowing machine "Ryobi EKK-2100" stopped working while I was mo…

A young lady mumbled , “Should I give up to use this computer display monitor”? A few days ago her monitor Mitsubishi RDT223WM-S was stopped working turning the screen all white as is shown below. She was informed about me from her friend …

I was requested to fix by a young lady who has been in use of a laptop NEC PC-LS150BS6W which recently has failed. It is about 3 years old. It's too early to fail. NEC PC-LS150BS6W As I pushed the power button, all indicators just turned o…

I was requested to fix intermittent problems no gear shift, no tachometer, no speedometer by an owner of a local car repair shop. I know this often happens among some domestic cars. Closer look The owner must have upset unable to read the …

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 …

Look at photos below. One of the LEDs is dead. Failed LED units for 2 different high-mount brake light. Another failed unit Both LED high-mount brake lights have a failed LED inside near at the center. The LED alone is not a serviceable pa…

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…

To make a long story short, there were 3 problems hiding. 1, Compression 2, Spark energy 3, Miss wiring 1, Compression As I checked basic items, the compressions were 9.6, 9.6, 8.5 and 9.6kg / a square cm. 3 out of 4 cylinders show mostly …

Below is a forklift with a shovel which is out of use due to the engine problem. The attached shovel This is owned by my brother-in-law and he uses it to remove the snow. He lives in a country side where they have much snow. People there h…

The cable used for the throttle body had 11 insulated wires inside. All wires are flaked just like those wires used for the main engine harness which I have introduced at below. http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/6953694.html In order to fix…

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 …