Recent content by jfranke

yeah, I guess you're right in that i'm not replacing the whole starter... I'm going to see what the shop comes back with for a labor estimate - I'm hoping the cost differential is enough to warrant the starter's repair over replacement. But if not, well, i'll be replacin' I appreciate...

Ok - taking the advice I'm being given... Just dropped it off at my local shop. They think they can get the contacts and have it turned back around with a repaired starter by tomorrow, maybe next day if they have to get parts shipped in. "that's a standard Denso starter... a cheap fix" they...

I've got what smells more and more like a starter problem - I've gone through some other threads and have the same issue others have described where the truck (98 LX470)intermittently won't start and gives <click> instead. Then for no apparent reason, it starts fine after a couple tries...

Bought the truck used/certified so it came with extended warranty... 3 yr/100k mi. I'm right at the edge of that timeframe, so got it in just in time.

Thanks for the feedback - seeing as how I didn't want to mess around with brake noise, I buckled today and drove it into the dealer's shop. "Bad news, my friend." (I hate when they start out that way) "Master cylinder's failing." They told me the ssssisssing sound was air escaping around...

My truck is a 98 LX470 with 75k miles. I replaced all pads with Carbon Metallic in the front and Bendix in the back - nothing particularly hi-perf as it's a family truck. The only thing I did with the reservoir was fill it with generic DOT3 fluid. This morning I tried re-bleeding using...

I just finished replacing pads on all 4 wheels (spent total of maybe $70 on parts instead of $250 - 400 at dealer). After I bled the lines pretty thoroughly, but am getting a "ssssst" noise when I press brake pedal now. Seems to be coming from under the fluid reservoir under the hood...and...