lexis lexus Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Hi all, Well I've been working slowly on my '94 es 300 112k which was giving me knock sensor codes, and was overheating every 400 miles. I took off the top, replaced the head gaskets, knock sensors, plugs, fuel injector o rings, intake and plenum gaskets and put it back together (took about 6 weeks to do this due to work, weather, travel, and broken bolts). Tried to start it up today, ran poorly for about a minute then died. No codes showing now. I'm thinking the timing belt is off. I goofed initially and never put it in top dead center position before disconnecting things, and so when I got to taking the timing belt and cam shafts off, I found I couldn't put it in neutral as re connecting the battery did nothing. So I just painted lines all over the place, on the cam shafts, timing belt, cam gears. When I put it back together, I made sure everything lined up just so, but.... Other theories I have include some problem in the fuel lines. I also had problems reconnecting the egr pipe from the exhaust to egr cooling plate, and ended up sealing it with jb weld (there is no f-ing way to get to that w/out pulling the block!x#%) but I doubt even some leakage there would cause it to run so roughly and then die. I walked away disgusted, decided to think about it and send this in for any thoughts or feed back. All help welcome. LL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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