Recent content by smritte

I've been dealing with refrigerants for decades. I have my 608 and all the 609, is that what you mean? I have never heard of a restricted refrigerant license. Do you have a link? I couldn't find any reference at all. Looking for R-12, the only place I found it was on sale at refrigerant depo at...

The issue isn't the 134. The issue is if you add PAG oil to it when you convert. The pag oil will react to the chlorine in the system. Fill with 134 and use POE oil. It doesn't care. If your system actually built sludge from the mixture, whoever did it really screwed it up. I've torn apart many...

I'm running the same front Delta arms. With 3" (ish) lift im about 3 degrees of caster. I have a part time kit which makes my front looser on the freeway. As was stated, toe, caster, rear panhard and bushings control wandering. On mine, I found the frame side hole for the front panhard, wallowed...

So....what did he say was the fault? I'm impressed he used a scope. Most of my diag on these sensors was just a volt meter. Your sensor is just a toothed magnet and a coil. As the tooth passes the coil it produces an AC voltage (just like an alternator). The faster you spin the wheel, the higher...

Some vehicles run an orifice type pcv. No check ball, just a small metered leak. If its small enough to be compensated by the PCM, that design works too.

Earlier today, I was pondering this. What would be nice is if the catch can had a small vacuum pump built in. That would actually solve may issues. Now to figure out if there's a market for that.

Answer What you did will work as I mentioned in my first post. What it will not do is remove the blowby contamination. How much difference will that make? No idea. If you pull a sample of your oil after about 5k miles and send it out for analyzation (Blackstone Lab), you will find out whether...

Unless your talking about oil getting pulled into your intake, NO. The contamination is from the blowby into the crank case and moisture from the engine cooling down. The PCV pulls the gasses from the crankcase. If you have enough blowby to warrant a catch can, you either have poor sealing from...

Yes and no. To understand the answer you need to understand PCV and why its important. Here it is put very basically. As your piston compresses and fires, some pressure push's past the rings (blowby). This does two things, pressurizes the crank case and induces burned and unburned fuel into...

That is what needs to be focused on. There are several reasons for this and they come down to something is the wrong size. Where did the studs come from? Cheap auto part stores tend to sell one size fits all parts. If your studs are too long or the spline area too small, this will be a big...

Longo Toyota, El Monte. Online only then you can pick it up and save shipping.

@lumbee1 Did you bedliner your fenders? If so, hows it holding up? I jumped on the bedliner bandwagon a long time ago. I did my M-100 in Raptor. My cruiser fenders in Monsta Liner, then my sliders in Monsta. I followed the instructions and spoke with both companies before hand. Both brands chip...

I was a tech starting in 79 and have been a trainer for 20 years. That is one of my biggest complaints and something I pound into my students. You cant diagnose anything if you don't know how it works. Too many people out there guess and throw parts successfully. When asked why I allow my...

OK? But why do I not see any oil from a leak? They want to replace it because??? Forty years of AC and I can count on one hand how many evaporators I've seen leak that weren't caused by someone damaging it. Unless you see oil trace indicating a leak, clean it up and run it.

I know, right? Odds are the tech never knew he did it and would respond with "I've been doing these for years and never had a problem". I normally use a speed handle on these bolts. Some modern air ratchets will strip them too. Transmissions are very soft aluminum. When you tear it down, take a...