Hello everyone
6 years of ownership ,many miles and countless adventures, I figure ,with a garage and a daily driver,its time to invest time and money into my pathy. So, I can start checking items off the should do/ always wanted to do/ never knew I want to do , list. First item is to get her back on the road and legal. It had a check engine light and a miss. with no garage at the time, I drove her to my parents house for a shop full of every tool I could ever possible need and my father's car Yoda abilities. I did the screwdriver to the ear trick on the injector and # 5 didn’t sound right.i pull the top part of the intake to replace the said injector , while off I cleaned the whole induction system out with carb cleaner and elbow grease. In the process of putting everything back , I leaned too hard on the aged radiator and snap top intake spout. ( yay time for a new radiator). After installing and retrofitting around a bent a/c condenser (result of a run in with an owl at highway speed). I put it all back together.
… still a miss . I played with the spark plug wire to uncover the corrupter, this time #2 cylinder seems to be the problem. Deflated and in the middle of a move , She sat . A few weeks later I drove it back to the new place and in to the “den of doom”(girlfriend words. not mine),
where I started address some of the other less important issues, t-bar sag , strut rod bushings , rebuild hubs etc (which some im still addressing , cuz im super ADD barely have only one project going) . One day my father ,who is a professor at a community collage, called and said, his class did a tear of a vg30e and had some parts I might want. I came home with two smelly bags of parts , including a complete fuel rail, engine harness , and intake manifold.
I was able to work out a way to pull the first half of my fuel rail and make a injector tester with a injector socket and a 9volt. #2 injector was bad even thou when I listened to it before it sounded fine. I cleaned and replaced the three injector with the strongest of the 5 I had . Replaced those dumb Philips bolt with hex bolts and where she sits today
now i have a question for you guys. i discovered my driver side bushing cup is blown out
I know one of you welded a bearing race to the frame, was that a hard weld , or would I be better off lobing one off a junked path or pickup?
and now some pics of my work (because everyone loves pics.)
happy to find that little sticker
found this under both of my rear seats