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    Valvoline 75W90 causing vibration in rear diff

    How did the magnet look? If it was clean you felt vibrations because you wanted to. The brain is funny like that
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    Oil Change: Hot or Cold?

    I always give the cars a good warmup. The oil drains quicker and more completely if you are limited in time. There is also an argument that running the engine will help put any contaminates in suspension to then be drained more thoroughly.
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    Car accelerate right after start

    4000 rpm though? Sure, most if not all cars increase the rpms a certain amount depending on engine temp, AC compressor compensation, charging requirements, but 4000 rpm is extreme! Especially if it's something that just started happening. I would start looking for locked up pulley's, locked up...
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    310,000 Mile 2AZ-FE Innards

    PCV system is flowing freely. When I fired the engine up after getting everything buttoned back up I noticed a new noise, kind of a static type of sound from the top of the engine. It was noise coming from the new pcv valve. I pulled the hose and it immediately died from sucking air and going...
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    310,000 Mile 2AZ-FE Innards

    Glad I could help. I grew up looking at car forums and learned a heck of a lot from people providing information and the research gave me the confidence to tackle a lot of stuff myself, rather than taking my vehicles somewhere for someone else to. I'm certainly happy to keep that stuff alive...
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    310,000 Mile 2AZ-FE Innards

    When I noticed the oil on the exhaust heat shield, I immediately purchased the valve cover gasket and pcv valve because that amount of oil certainly says pushed gasket rather than just bad gasket. It's still hard to say which one was the root cause though. All the hold down bolts for the valve...
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    310,000 Mile 2AZ-FE Innards

    My mom bought this car brand new, I did all the maintenance on it from the start. I bought the car from my mom in 2018. If you take a look at the numbers you can see that it gets quite a few miles put on it each year, therefore the time between 5k oil changes is not long. Because of the usage...
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    310,000 Mile 2AZ-FE Innards

    If I recall the first water pump failed on this car around 60k, that pump was replaced by the dealer at that time and that replacement pump has been soldiering on for the last 250K. If the dealer replaced the belt at that time the serpentine belt has 250 K if the dealer didn't replace the belt...
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    310,000 Mile 2AZ-FE Innards

    Spark plug tubes were clean and dry, and as I mentioned this engine doesn't in my opinion suffer from the gummed up rings high oil consumption issues a lot of the 2az-fe's had, this engine has consistently used a quart of oil in 5000 miles. My routine has been to dump a whole 5 quart jug of oil...
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    310,000 Mile 2AZ-FE Innards

    Started the wife's beater tonight, 2007 Camry, 2AZ-FE, 310,000 miles and smelled some burned oil inside the car, popped the hood and found a nice little surprise sitting on top of the exhaust manifold heat guard Darn I guess the valve cover gasket has finally given up. As you can see it has...
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    Timing belt time (04 civic d17a1)

    Are you sure this generation got the Yamada pumps? I could have sworn this generation come with pumps made by aisin? I could certainly be wrong its been several years but I do know when I initially did the timing belt on this car at 138 k I removed a Honda pump and I am almost certain I found...
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    Timing belt time (04 civic d17a1)

    I got the aisin component kit. Comes with mitsuboshi belt, tensioner/dampener with nsk bearing, new honda tensioner spring, and aisin water pump. I purchased the front main crank seal and cam seal separately I plan to get what I can out of the car, put on about 500 miles a week, if it made it...
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    Timing belt time (04 civic d17a1)

    Even though the belt looks good the aisen water pump which was new with the belt has been tapping out for awhile judging by the buildup at the weep hole on the bottom right bolt hole
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    Timing belt time (04 civic d17a1)

    Darn thing looks brand new after 102k
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    Timing belt time (04 civic d17a1)

    About 40k on these copper plugs. Well worn and the touch of red on them may be a result of some tcw3 at a 640:1 ratio for the last several thousand miles
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