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by ARCHINSTL
Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:54 pm
Forum: Repair Guides
Topic: Addendum To Previous EGR Valve Cleaning Methods
Replies: 10
Views: 6041

takza - "Special Program" ? ME ? Come on - It took me forever to find photobucket ! ! ! I do a lot of this on eBay to make the pix interesting - and it's kinda fun. No special program - just sucking part of a photo to a blank page, erasing the original page and moving the sucked-out porti...
by ARCHINSTL
Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:21 pm
Forum: Repair Guides
Topic: Addendum To Previous EGR Valve Cleaning Methods
Replies: 10
Views: 6041

Well - Thank You - Wish the red-faced emoticon had a smile instead of a frown, as I am embarrassed (just a bit, though...) After doing this last July or so, I bought a vac pump, which, while handy, would not have permitted the sampling of old carbon in my mouth whilst sucking on the tube before clam...
by ARCHINSTL
Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Tercel Theme Music; the nurishment of cruising
Replies: 11
Views: 3524

Hell... Why not some Yanni? I enjoy a good Yanni every now and then.
Is there such a thing as "...a good Yanni..." ?

:shock: Typrus - Yanni - at your age? :roll:

:D

Tom M.
by ARCHINSTL
Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:47 pm
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: High idle
Replies: 10
Views: 3248

Mosquito - Check out a number of my posts on RPM Cycling. When warm and I revved to 2200 or so, it would automatically drop to 1800, then go again to 2200, then to 1800, then back to 2200, ad infinitum . I solved this (temporarily) by plugging the "A" vac switch vac line. There are some l...
by ARCHINSTL
Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:42 am
Forum: Repair Guides
Topic: Addendum To Previous EGR Valve Cleaning Methods
Replies: 10
Views: 6041

Addendum To Previous EGR Valve Cleaning Methods

OK - I will add my two cents to the Great EGR Valve Cleaning Adventure. While takza 's is the seminal literature from 2004, I do have a few additions to the procedure. Apart from the illustrations, which ( I think) are self-explanatory, I will add that I wholeheartedly agree that the cleaning of the...
by ARCHINSTL
Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:31 am
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: I think my EGR valve is screwed
Replies: 8
Views: 3583

I made an addition to the EGR valve cleaning procedure.
It is in the Repair Guides section - with photos.
Tom M.
by ARCHINSTL
Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: '86 4WD on eBay in MI
Replies: 0
Views: 601

'86 4WD on eBay in MI

This just popped up today - http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8028751952&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1 The fellow is pretty candid about its condition, which seems to be as a parts car only. He does mention several times that these cars are highly sought after...
by ARCHINSTL
Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:22 pm
Forum: Tercel 4WD Repair Questions
Topic: Starting a Terc that has been idle
Replies: 10
Views: 3287

MootsMan - This is not a suggestion - just a passalong about a "friend" who did this on an old Singer Roadster with a similarly clogged fuel pipe: "He" ran a long rubber hose of the appropriate diameter all the way from the fuel pump back to the gas filler neck and thence down i...
by ARCHINSTL
Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:36 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: Here we go.....WoooooHooooo
Replies: 15
Views: 5681

Well, now -
Next Halloween, just stick an eyeball and a rhino horn on the front and you can go to the ball in the
"One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flyin' Purple People Eater".
:P
Aaack - that came out when I was in HS "some decades" ago...
Tom M.
by ARCHINSTL
Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:29 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: Here we go.....WoooooHooooo
Replies: 15
Views: 5681

Very clean - I'm envious - the previous owner(s) were quite fastidious about the interior...
Tom M.
by ARCHINSTL
Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: adding more interior lighting
Replies: 5
Views: 1700

Don't take this the wrong way - but did you install new 10-watt bulbs in the existing sockets? I was exploring the same route as you, thinking that it was my aging eyes and disremembering the brightness of the '83 back then. So I put in two new bulbs, and voila! LOTS brighter! I think the old ones m...
by ARCHINSTL
Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:21 pm
Forum: Tercel 4WD Parts: New and Used
Topic: composite headlight needed
Replies: 7
Views: 3142

I don't know if it is much consolation, but the Pacific Northwest Toyota dealer consortium, http://www.autopartspeople.com , has it for $105 + 10% postage. Check out this link: http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/index.cfm?action=getLocator&siteid=213824&chapter=ANM800&appSectionid=3&...
by ARCHINSTL
Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: Any help with a 4WD diesel swap?
Replies: 8
Views: 3172

I copped this from a Toyota Nation Tercel Forum thread about Tercel diesels.
It's supposed to be from an early '90s Tercel - complete FWD motor and drive train - JDM.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 8025565118
Tom M.
by ARCHINSTL
Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:58 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Toyota FJ Cruiser '07 Mini Report
Replies: 0
Views: 947

Toyota FJ Cruiser '07 Mini Report

I don't know if there have been reports in the magazines yet, but this is something that appeared in the Automotive section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today. This was written by the Editor, who actually does offroading seriously, as well as writing minireports on various cars. The link is: http:...
by ARCHINSTL
Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:23 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Happy New Year!
Replies: 4
Views: 1682

And to you as well !
Tom M.