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GrimGreg

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  1. I did not read your links, but read an article on Top Gear about a 314mpg VW. Assuming it is the same one, I am highly doubtful we would see anywhere near that amount of efficiency in anything developed from it in the USA. The diesel restrictions here are stupid, that powerplant would probably not pass. I know VW is about the only manufacturer with a diesel on the US market, and they barely got it OKed.

  2. Never had an issue myself (I guess yet...) with the MAF ground. I know it is a known common issue, and what the fix is.

     

    This weekend looks like it might be nice enough to allow me to tear into it and check my sensors.

  3. Drove past there twice but never stopped. Aside from a couple drives E-W, I stuck to the coastal areas while I lived out there.

     

    It is amazing how much open space there is in CA, like B said, the population there congests itself into 3 main areas. There are places out there you can walk for 5 days and never see a road or anything else made by man. So different here in the mid-west, no matter where you are here, pick a direction and you'll find a road in a few hours at most.

  4. I tried washers, adjusting the latch and wrapping tape on the catch and still had the lights come on around corners. I just unplugged the hatch switch. If I need light when I open the hatch, I'll just turn it on by hand.

     

    As for the door switches, those are easy "pocket parts" at the j-yard. Keep those working, the floor lights don't have a separate switch and will kill a battery if left on.

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  5. I had to pull the hose off the PCV valve to get to one of the IACV screws. I hit it with some intake cleaner while the hose was off, but didn't test if it was stuck. And I had the intake off to clean the TB. I'm running a custom straight pipe intake with the vacuum lines tapped into it. The pipe and joiner clamp areas were in good shape.

     

    I'll probably tear into it more this weekend.

  6. Tonight I pulled off the intake and IACV and cleaned the TB and IACV. Started it up and it runs the same. Although one thing I forgot about was that it is only on the hot idle that the rpms are low. When it is first started it runs at 1100 RPM on cold idle.

  7. The oil pan, y-pipe and (if auto) tranny pan are the major things that need protection. Everything else is stout enough to handle a little abuse. I used cutting boards on my 88 and they worked well. Bought some for my 93 but never installed them. They are better than metal because they'll slide on rocks rather than catch, and they are light weight too.

  8. I'm a "professional " Handyman, and have been for almost 6 years now. I was a commercial carpenter for 8 years before I switched to handyman. I get calls to fix just about anything, from changing lightbulbs, to sealing doors on a grain elevator 15 stories in the air, to complete remodels.... The nice thing is the hours, I get paid based on billed hours, of which I get an average of about 20 a week. Leaves more "play time".

     

    My first job was a cook at a Carls Jr.

  9. I used a RainX kit on my Frontier, it has 3 sanding grits, a polish compound, and a final clear/protective coating. It worked OK, but not great. It could be user error and I didn't sand enough, or polish enough, who knows. I tried toothpaste and another commercial lens polish on my old van in the past and both looked good for a day or 2, then crap again. I did my Frontier back in October, and it still looks good, so at least the RainX lasts well.

  10. My 93 wants to idle at about 300-500 rpm, it idles smooth at that speed, but it won't keep the alt charging enough to idle very long. I haven't done much searching yet, but my best 2 guesses are either an IACV or TPS issue. Any other suggestions on what to look at for a cause?

     

    For the moment I just put a spacer in the stop bar on the throttle so it stays open more and keeps the idle up around 1200.

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