Bykfixer

I don't like when I pour cereal into a bowl at midnight and discover the milk went sour. Dratz!!

Women

Life. Yeah it has its ups and downs but the trouble with being dead is it lasts so long. Food is cool too. So is lexus owners club.

Muscle cramps. I do not like muscle cramps.

The way Toyota laid out the cables for the battery versus a battery, in many, many, many cases the user accidently hooks the cables on backwards. Seems like a "duh" to get it correct yet it happens pretty frequently. If you did that you've blown a bunch of fuses. When my son did it his car was completely dead but as he changed fuses some things began working. Until he changed out a blown main fuse under the hood the car was not driveable. In his case ironically the fuel pump konked out too so once the electrical stuff was repaired then the fuel pump quit so when that was replaced all was right with the car. It's my car now and is the one shown in this thread. Hope you get yours fixed soon.

In my area there are recycling centers we used to call junkyards. They have a wishlist program where you fill out a request form and they email you when what you seek arrives. Maybe your area has something similar. Also a site called road kill customs lists junkyards across America, many of which will mail the part. Lexuspartsnow is an online site that sells new parts from the warehouse the dealers get them from at about 30% less than the dealer charges. Hope this helps.

How old is the timing belt? If it's due you can figure a cost of $1000 the buyer probably won't want to pay.

Try adding a can of SeaFoam to your fuel tank. A cat code fires off when it's below 95% efficient. If yours is at say, 93% you get a code but SeaFoam burns hotter so it may clean your convertor enough to return to 95%+.

My latest little mod was to add a Hot Wheels sticker

Grape

Did you clean the injectors (yet)?

Great to hear it was user error. We've all done something we ended doing a face-palm over. In older vehicles with only an idiot light (ie no pressure meter) it would not light until there were incidents where pressure dropped below a point. A sensor under pressure would have a plus and minus that stayed apart. If pressure dropped it allowed them to touch and complete the circuit to the idiot light bulb. In other words if there was enough oil inside the engine to provide a pretty steady pressure level no lamp would light. Perhaps newer vehicles work similar. If it had a pressure guage one could watch the needle at idle and see changes enough to make you say "hmmm, perhaps I should check into the matter"…… Sometimes new engines have piston rings that don't seat proper and allow oil to get past them. It's rare but it happens. Glad it turned out well.

Fizzy

Excited

My cd player, seat memory switch and dome light were the cause of my drain. The dome light comes from a door ajar module on the rear passenger side thinking my door is ajar. So bottom line is it could be a number of things but door ajar sensors would be a good place to start looking.

Hooray!

Kaplooey

I read somewhere that San Fransico is built on top of a layer of clay, which acts like jello when the earth quivers. Hmm, that about as safe a place as that famous city built on pete moss 18 feet below sea level……uh, make that 20 now. lol. I used to keep a big ole jumper box in mine but anytime I needed it the dang thing had self discharged. Phooey on that. It sets next to my excersize bike now and I use it as a dumbell to do arm curls……

That's the view when I pull into the driveway after work. Unseen in the photo is the dog wagging his tail "it's that guy, he's back, yay!!"

So today I went to start ole Lexi but……the 8 year old battery no longer holds a charge. Dratz!! But she shor looks sexy sitting there……

Does Southern Cali have earthquakes or is that just the Bay area? I remember a world series game they called battle of the bay where the ground was quivering pretty good and it seems like some folks got stranded when bridges collapsed or something. We keep a few things in the Mrs car in case the motor or tranny konk out. It's a Ford so we prepare……

Recently in the US a flow of a significant portion of a major highway was suddenly halted. Thousands of people were stranded for nearly an entire day. Like 19 hours!! Would you be prepared? My boss carries a "bug out bag" along with a fully charged USB power pack, a flashlight with lithium batteries for no leaks and cold air stability, spare clothes including socks and waterproof shoes, a blanket, a warm coat, non perishable food like pop tarts and canned spagetti, water, a small am/fm radio, portable air compressor, a first aid kit, a small tool kit, reflective triangles, tire plug kit, ice scraper, and a few other things. She does a lot of travelling hundreds of miles at a time. My car's trunk is loaded with car care products like car wash, wax, California car brush, microfiber cloths, and other items since it's a putt around town car that never ventures on the interstate or more than a couple miles from home. But I really should have it ready for an emergency. My work truck on the other hand is good to go aside from an engine crane to pluck out the motor. One thing that bit a bunch of people on that interstate incident was running out of fuel during a blast of arctic air. No way to charge a phone to call 911 if needed, no way to stay warm, no food to eat as trees had fallen across the roadway between exit ramps. Just something to think about.

Moved to a spot where LS430 owners would probably see this. As a rule valve cover gaskets tend to flatten so the need to squeeze them a little tighter by tightening bolts down is not unusual. Oil is under fairly strong pressure throughout the engine and in the case of a valve cover gasket it can find it's way out. Bolts can stretch over time too. Thereby reducing the tension applied to the items being clamped together. During assembly at the factory bolts are tightened to a given torgue spec but it's not unusual to have to re-tighten them later. If the gasket was replaced at any point it stands to reason after a "break in" period the bolts should be re-torqued.

Norman

Sounds like lifters may be sticking.