Recent content by AdmiralYoda

Transmission drain is right there too. Seems to be easy to work on.

The melted piston problem seems to be caused by poor maintenance and poor choice of oils. The early 1.5L LYX, and other small displacement engines in this family seemed to have the potential for LSPI. GM has a couple of TSB's on this usually to change the oil to a GM Dexos1-GenII+ low SAPS...

I had Hagarty for my 1987 Toyota 4Runner. No issues with them but I changed to American Collectors Insurance. For a $20k agreed value Hagarty wanted about $600/yr. American Collectors is $225/yr. In my brief experience Hagarty has very good rates for older collectable cars from the 70's and...

That's the plan. No maintenance history on Carfax but what I can see from the oil fill hole looks clean. GM's severe service for the transmission is every 45k, lifetime fill for standard service. I plan on doing two spill and fills with some Valvoline Dexron IV to get rid of what is in there...

I can not in any scientific manner. Seems like repeated short trips might lead to fuel dilution which may increase the shearing of the oil. But like I said, I may be over-thinking this. If you disagree, I'd appreciate your thoughts on why! **EDIT. And this is my first turbo'd engine...

Thanks! My wife's super short-tripping has me worried about shearing, though I may be over-thinking it. It is a GDI engine but I don't think it is known for fuel dilution.

Alright everyone, so after my wife's 2016 Mazda CX-5 got totalled...it was time to go shopping. Initially was shooting for a 2018+ Chevrolet Equinox or GMC Terrain with the 2.0L LTG Turbo engine. Got a good deal on a loaded 2018 Equinox with the 1.5L LYX Turbo engine. 91k miles. Seems well...

Back around 2000 I worked at a Jiffy Lube afterschool and during the summer. It was a good shop, we were a bunch of car nerds and actually knew what we were doing. There was a rental car place across the street and they stuck to the maintenance schedule like it was the 10 commandments. Rental...

Worst: 2015-ish Ford Escape rental car with about 5k miles. AC was okay when driving but would blow warm or hot when at a stop. It was 90 out but still.

I got the 4Runner as a winter beater back in 1999 for dirt cheap. The body was rusty and the engine was cooked because it overheated and blew the head gasket, going full milk shake. I put a junkyard engine in it and I "think" it had about 120k on it when I got it. I've put about 30k on it...

@FZ1 and @Danno, normally I would agree but 5W-30 doesn't seem appropriate for a 40~ish year old engine with high miles, considering that Toyota spec'd 5W-30 for cold temps when the engine was new. Clearances are sure to be greater in the engine now. If the esters in VRP would help well the...

Historically a synthetic 10W-40 or 15W-40, whatever was on sale at Walmart. Running synthetic blend Delo 400 15W-40 in it right now since I'm doing a short OCI. This weekend I might change it over to 20W-50 for the fun of it. These motors have low oil pressure at idle by design. Toyota...

Agreed that this is a good idea, but I'm not going to touch cylinder #2 as the spark plug went in real rough after the last B12 soak. Probably going to need a heli-coil, which I'm not willing to attempt at the moment.

A compression and leak-down test would be very valuable but can't happen at the moment. When replacing the plugs a month ago after an extended B12 soak one of the plugs went in real tough. The next time it comes out I am probably going to heli-coil it. A potential can of worms I'm not willing...

I have a 1987 Toyota 4Runner with a 22RE that has 99k miles. Engine has around 150k. I've owned it since 2000 but it has sat for a significant amount of time twice. Once from 2001-2013 in storage as the body needed lots of work. Did all the body work, had it painted and drove it for 5k miles...