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. …

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 …

Upper left corner had this label. I paid 2000 Yen for the above LCD display monitor IBM ThinkVision L200p. As is shown above, it said,”うつりません or No picture.” Originally it was an expensive monitor priced 178,000 Yen in Japan when re…

I did another experiment to use red LEDs for a break light. Those are high-wattage and high efficiency type of LEDs and you can expect 1/25 of less power consumption compared with regular bulbs. You also can expect longer life more than 50…

Can you guess what this is? Below photo is taken with a flush light. The photo below is taken with no flush light with a quick shutter speed. You see, this is a board on which LEDs are mounted. There are 4 greens, 2 reds and 2 blues. One o…

I forgot to write about the way how I fixed the broken pipe for blow by line. You can find the problem here. http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/mae_yas/985540.html You can see some more how the part was broken. I gave up to use the broken and separa…

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…