Appears to be a dashpot assembly or idle air control valve. Dashpots are use to "soften" the throttle shut down. Kind of like a shock absorber. If its the idle air control valve, then it wont start as the throttle blade is closed all the way now.
Looks unplugged. Plug it back in lol. Either cam sensor, or possibly knock sensor. Does not appear to be close enough to the crank reluctor ring to be a crank pos sensor.
In a world fueled by greed anything is possible....Most of the country is "dirt" poor literally. The other small portion are billionaires...I mean who doesn't need a 100 room castle for a handful of people and servants...
Good grief. He posted it on page 1 of this thread, click, save target as, print, head to lexus. doubtful they will do it now though. 14yrs ago...I did my own in 3hrs, all 4. Cost me $12 for the motors.
Well Ive been lurking on this site for some time with a few posts here and there and finally decided I'd put up some photos of this 14yr old car. I bought it about 4 months ago and had no idea what I was getting into. I sold my truck that had a lot of miles on it so the lex is my daily driver. Ive had to put quite a bit of time and money into it to get it back to where a lexus should be. Below is a list of things that I had to do. Most of these are very common on the 2nd gen GS.
Replaced all 4 door lock actuators using DIY Ebay motors
New front rotors with drilled/slotted ones and ceramic pads
New oil filler cap since it was busted and leaking
New alternator
New battery
Front seats reupholstered
Replaced center console wood trim as original was cracked. New one came with black chrome shifter bezel
New radiator
New windshield
New arm rest cover
converted interior lights to true white LED
replaced main charge fuse...talk about a pita!
New DS fog light
New hand made wood grain Tshift knob...I know old school (i used to own a chevelle...)
converted over to mobile 1 oil/filter
New magnaflow header w/cats
new hood support struts
New oem lexus floormats
So far including buying the car and all the things Ive done, Ive only got about $6,500 in it. Heres how it turned out.
Last two pics are huge so had to post as thumbnails as links. Im pretty happy with this car. Next up will be a 2JZGTE Aristo swap but thats a ways out still.
I have the turtle wax kit. It worked well. Could not see the reflector at all inside due to the "yellow" oxidized plastic. Took about 20min and back to new look.
70mA or lower. Pull the fuses till you find the one that drops it. Dont be surprised when you pull the ECM fuse and it drops sharply only to rise up to 700mA when reinserted. The caps in the ECM have to charge up and then the draw should drop back down below 70mA. My GS draws 38mA with nothing on. Battery goes dead after a week of not running. I have narrowed it down to a defective battery. Sounds like you have a ton of fuses either missing or blown.
yeah no problem. Im a diy kinda guy. Im thinking in the next 6-8months about pulling my 2jz out and having it precision balanced and re-ringing/bearing the motor. Fig I could gasket match the head/intake and smooth out the short side radius on the exhaust side while Im at it. I havent had my GS that long, but Ive put a ton of time/money into it and did all the work myself except getting seats re-done.
Next year I will be picking up an LS or another GS to add to the driveway, but looking at for 400/430 versions. I payed a little less but got basically the same deal. Nice looking car for sure.