Damm body shops!!!!!!!!!! My car brook down couple of months ago found out timing belt was gone so ofcourse AAA picked me up and said we will fix it no charge for tow. so they fixed it a week later timing belt went again so AAA had to fix it no charge. a new shop took the car at first they said i need plugs so i paid for them to change my plugs then they called me back and said oh it was your timming belt so i end up paying them 450 for plugs and front brakes i get the car back couple of days later the car starts running like crap no power at all i took the car back to them they was like oh we ran test and your plugs and wires are good its something else well i knew i need o2seneor and tps sensor and egr valve so i took the car home let it sit for a few day. (Well i have to say i love CLUBLEXUS.COM) I came on here a searched my *** off i ran the car and pulled each wirer from the cap the last wirer #6 was not working "bingo" so went to the auto parts store and went crazy bought plugs, wires , cap, rotor,got tps sensor fuel filter( witch i cant get off need help on getting a new fuel line old "one still on ") so i took the top of the engine apart found out valve cover gasket (got a new gaskets for lexus )was leaking very bad # 5 and 6 plugs was under oil i cleaned that like crazy. i went to work cleaning cleaning cleaning and more cleaning cleaned intake manifold throttle body got the inside looking like the outside.

well i just came on here to tell Clublexus thankyou and everyone one here this site helped me a whole lot and saved a whole lot of money my car runs like a champ i always loved lexus i love it even more had a 93 gs300 now i have a 95 sc300 here are some pics to enjoy i had fun doing al buy my slef



oh yeah while i was working on the car i leaned on the top hose buy the cap of the radiator and broke the plastic piece end up gettin a new radiator glad i did old one was nasty .....................

 

here is my everyday car 90 mintegra ls or try to be still drive my sc3

 

here is the old wires with the intake removed

 

here is the new plugs wires cap..........

 

all that oil in there

 

yeah alot of oil cleaning up was like the exxon spill........

 

wow this was fun here cleaning all that dirt out

 

putting the new valave cover gaskets on

ill be back at 1130pm to put more pics up

 

I did that when I had my car down for a while, degreased and scrubbed the hell out of the inside of my throttle body, y-plenum, and upper intake manifold. Took forever but it looked a lot better in there!

 

I hade a EGR code in my car. I was going to do a tune-up so why not clean out the EGR valve and see if that fixes the problem. EGR was clean, no blockage nothing. I figured it was a VSV valve. Went to clean out the throttle body, found that where the EGR gases are plumed in the throttle body was completely stopped up. Let it soak over night and cleaned it again. Re-assembled the car (with new plugs, cap, rotor, wires, vc gaskets and dist o-ring). Cleared the code and done. 10K and no light.

 

painted my valve cover red

 

red valve covers looking good

 

ofcoures i had to match it up with the brakes

 

oh yeah you know something had to mess up i rested my hand on the top part and broke where the hose go to the reserve so went around the corner got a new one for $158

 

heres the new radiator $158 i just happen to go to toyota ask them how much was a supra radiator non turbo i think he said $600 or $800 i blacked out for a sec