Wesley227

8 hours ago, Jeremy M. said:

If you'll forgive the mess in this photo, it shows the valley under the manifold on my 98 LS400; there's no place for a rachet to fall in or anything (worst case I can think of is it vibrating over and tapping on one of the knock sensors, which can be rather sensitive), but if you can take a flexible magnet and fish it out, it would save some odd rattling sounds and general headache for you.

A magnet should fit just fine along the openings at the base of the manifold (probably the same place it dropped in, I'd imagine) to fish it back out

Well I appreciate it… thank you… I was working near the back of it near the fire wall around the heater valve near the right side of the V toward the back an it fell a certain way where my hands nor my small enough magnet could wiggle her back through! She is just gonna have to wait until I get the block off! I’m not to worried with it now! 

On 2/12/2022 at 7:50 PM, Jeremy M. said:

I have a '98 model, and haven't been inside a '92, so I'm not sure it'll be the same between the years, but in mine, the lock near the trunk switch is only there to disable the switch. You don't necessarily need a key to open the trunk unless that button has been depressed. If the lock cylinder has been taken out, you should be able to look in the hole and there's likely going to be something straight back or along the walls of the hole that can be manipulated with a screwdriver. Attached is just a quick video of how my own lock works; you can hear at the end when the trunk actually pops open.

This is a better explanation… way better than mine! You’ll have to pop off the dash underneath the steering wheel which isn’t to hard along with all the wire connections not to hard and don’t forget that there’s a piece at ur ignition switch that pops out allowing two screw placements to be accessed which will release that part of plastic paneling in order to get to the switch assembly behind the panel! 

You’ll have have to pull the assembly where the lock is under your dash where the key insert for security goes and take the brass/golden looking ring pop it off the round piece inside and beyond that will be a small plastic piece that locks in place when u actually push the security switch in whether or not the key is inserted it will be able to be pushed in and this locks that piece, where u have to take a little flat head get in there an just push it slightly an it will pop back and at this point u should be Able to pop the trunk open! 

I was working around the water heater valve and dropped my ratchet down inside the V of the engine bay. My guess is it’s sitting near the starter if it’s possible there is an opening to the starter at the back! Well I don’t mind that she’s back up in there under it as long as she won’t cause any fuss because frankly I’m tired! Anyone wanna comment on the condition of it!? Will it mess anything up driving!?!?

I’m wanting to instal my Sony radio in my 98 ls400 it has the nak sound system so when I took the radio out of the dash I found the wires for my speakers are all running to the amp under the passenger seat! I have an amp an sub I want to hook up but without the radio I’m finding it hard to even begin to try an install the radio when I’m looking at something I’ve never seen before! I usually just splice it all into the aftermarket radio from the dash but there’s only the 3 main wires back behind the radio the 12v, ground, and constant any ideas on how I can run my speaker wires from the amp to the radio just bypass it? All I need is for the speakers to be powered by the radio and be able to hook up my sub an amp to it with minimum complications!? Any ideas to do this? Thanks