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gw2doc

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    1996 LX450

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  1. i see no one has replied so ill give this a shot, without looking at a diagram or photo of the engine or a snapshot of your oil leaks it sounds like you have a gasket failure of some kind. Depending on WHERE exactly your oil leak is coming from it could be where the cylinder meets the block or where the head meets the cylinder (head gasket) although if your head gasket were going bad but you werent having any oil/coolant mix, then that means you have a piston ring going bad to because oil would be creeping into the cylinder, and then leaking out of the gasket hole and onto the ehaust manifold. are you having any other performance issues? long hard starting when cold? etc? the bad news: if your oil leak is somewhere below the point of combustion, south of the head gasket, IMHO you might as well drive it until it blows because if you have to pull the P/C's off for a repair your talking about a COMPLETE engine rebuild. any chance you can post a picture of what your looking at???
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  3. Hey there everyone, bought my wife an 96 LX 450 last night for taking the 4 kids around town. It's very nice and was well kept, but being the anal retentive auto owner that I am, I need a little direction on maintenance schedules and where to locate parts. It has 129k miles and no owners manual so I am unsure of what type of maintenance schedule it is supposed to be on. I checked Lexus.com and it has a PDF version of the manual, but the one section they fail to provide is the service schedule. I would really like to NOT have to bite the bullet and buy one of the over priced ones on ebay. Also I'm guessing it is probably in need of a transfluid change and a filter, so I was wondering if there are any sites that sell "toyota" or "lexus" genuine parts other than going to the dealer, meaning they sell them cheaper than the dealer does. Sort of like AtlanticBritish does for Land Rover owners. Finally, is there a Haynes manual available or something similar for this vehicle, maybe a land cruiser equivelant? thanks in advance everybody. oh yah one last thing, the driver visor was signed by Sammy Sosa, anybody know anything about that? Any chance he owned this LX before me? In which case I'll have to sell it, I'm a Brewers fan! hahaha JK! Maurice
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