Recent content by GremlinMobile

I noticed on days with prolonged rain, I would have this electronic intermittent beeping sand coming from behind the steering wheel or just below somewhere. It's very intermittent and sounds like something barely making contact. A few times it has led to the VGRS light going on. After this...

Wife drives the LX with 275,000 miles, so the possibility of the "dreaded phone call" is always on the table. Well, today, it came in. She went to start the car, it cranked for a few seconds, sputtered and died. She described it sputtering and clunking - I figured maybe timing belt or...

I'm not sure if they're knowledgeable about AHC or not, but they seem to be knowledgeable about land cruisers in general. BP gas station/mechanic shop in Saint James. Hopefully others can chime in here who have dealt with your symptom and weigh in. Please post your progress so we can learn from it.

How do you know OP found the solution? Even if we did - what about the rest of us with 20+ year old boosters???

So your brake booster assembly failed and you've exhausted options to source a new one? Do I understand this correctly? Does that mean that everyone with a hundy is now a sitting duck? In terms of waiting for this brake booster problem to happen to us, and when it does, essentially making it the...

I had this happen on one hundy before. It was a faulty hood latch sensor. Ended up having to unplug it because it liked to randomly go off at night. On the one I have now, same thing - alarm at night except hood latch sensor unplugged doesn't fix it.

That's crazy. I guess it was a coincidence after all.... All that dust is that the worn out brushes?

There's no such thing as a coincidence. The shop must have done something in their tire swapping work. Unfortunately, it's on you to find what they ****ed up and prove it. I would say that chances are - it's some bull**** wiring thing or sensor thing that they messed up, as opposed to the...

It seems that those non-OEM non-california CATs are not crazy expensive. If I'm going to unbolt the cats and risk messing around with rusty nuts and bolts, to try to mess around with DIY cat cleaning methods which may or may not work in the long run, why not just get a new $300 converter from...

I have the same issue. P0420 and P0430 codes. I also have a GX470 that has a MUCH louder exhaust tick with an obvious cracked exhaust manifold that I've already repaired once. However, I have no P0420 or P0430 codes. So an air leak doesn't seem to be what would cause that... I'm also trying to...

Have the exact same problem with my 2003 LX. Following to see replies. I haven't troubleshat it at all yet though.

I absolutely hate to revive this, but need to give an update. The P0420 and P0430 codes came back yesterday....I thought I had her fixed. I checked the freezeframe data and it shows decent fuel trims. Both long term and short term on both banks are within 3% of 0. When I went into the catalyst...

Nice troubleshooting and it certainly does sound like you struck paydirt when you found the oil soaked connector. I've never heard of needing auxillary tranny oil filters on these vehicles, so I was very surprised that that was recommended, not once, but twice, even after you confirmed that...

Just to update. So at the end of the day yesterday, after the car would stall almost every time right after initially starting it, and then driving fine. I got home. Popped the hood.....and....found the MAF sensor plug disconnected. I forgot to reconnect it after cleaning the MAF the previous...

Thought I'd share this for some of you who are also nerds about this sort of thing. Background - 2003 LX470. 275,000 miles A year ago, I did the valve cover gaskets. About a month after, I started getting P0420 code. A few months after, the P0430 code came in as well. Catalyst below efficiency...