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...she is very loud cruising at 120!- 134k km, fuel filter changed........to be continued!
, and my mk1 SC.
Again space was limited so I had to perform some contortionism and tighten it on with a vice-grips. Once tight I only had about 2cm of space to turn it so loosening, moving and retightening went on for a while. I had the blood drain from my arms a few times and almost had a nap under there but eventually she budged and off she came to my delight. I borrowed that strap tool but I'm definitely gonna buy one, its the only man for the job, worked for me before on another car. I wouldn't have stuck a screwdriver through the filter if that failed, it was going to a garage. 
went with NGK BCPR6EY-11
- replace blown dash bulb- wiper switch repair ( http://www.padandwheels.com/mr2/wipersw ... witch.html ). Waiting for my soldering iron to arrive,- get some mats- check the brakes- coolant flush ( Toyota for life coolant )- get missing window trim and boot trim- gearbox oil, dunno if I can do this myself...?- get good car cover for the winter The #1 tip for that job is to make sure you undo the fill plug before you undo the drain one. It's not unknown for people to drain the oil then find that they are unable to get the fill plug off and are left with an immobile car until they get it sorted!kaiowas wrote:Gearbox oil is easy enough to do.
Red Wedge wrote:Lovely looking car mate, I am jealous of those wheels!
Seems to be very tidy, have you had it long?
Very few if any breakers over here...
Tsporter wrote:I'm missing some trim, can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here's what I need:
It was a right bu88er when I replaced mine - don't bother calling Toyota, from memory they wanted £100+ excluding VAT. SuperRedMR2 wrote:
That piece is one long piece, so it looks like yours may have snapped.
Look on eBay or message one of the chaps breaking a car, but don't message Neil Jones or the chap who lives in Llanadog or something like that as he's a rip off merchant or post up in the wanted section on here.
Been round a couple of places looking for "a good brand of ethylene-glycol base coolant" as recommended by the Toyota Repair manual. It's like I'm the first person to ask for such a thing... The system takes 12.8 litres and it's dearer than I thought it would be.SuperRedMR2 wrote:Tsporter wrote:I'm missing some trim, can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here's what I need:
That piece is one long piece, so it looks like yours may have snapped.
Look on eBay or message one of the chaps breaking a car, but don't message Neil Jones or the chap who lives in Llanadog or something like that as he's a rip off merchant or post up in the wanted section on here.
- however while I was in the scrapyard removing it I found long nose pliers worked - but took a long time.- expensive, but good...? But it's blue, does that make a difference?28 which I think is good value...especially compared to the Toyota stuff at 80... I'm still missing one piece over the drivers door which are pretty rare I believe. I think they get broken when people are removing them. this is one long piece that's attached from the inside by 6 long bolts. It's very easy to snap if you didn't realise there were bolts.(Thanks for the tips above lads). Unfortunately my dome light connections broke when I was fixing this.
