Icemaninlv

what is wrong with that picture? looks fine. I recently bought the car with the problem, but would this cuase it to run way rich? I changed the PCV a month ago old one was clogged.

Anyone heard that inside the valve cover by the pcv and other outlets if the filters inside the cover our sludged that makes the gray smoke? a toyota mech. told me that, said he changed the covers and smoke went away saying that the engine can breath.

ok timing is fine 12*. car runs great at idle. when you press the gas and let off it dies immediatly. smoke still coming from the exhaust. strong gas smell and gas leaking from the exhuast tips. thinking the gasket between the throttle body and upper intake is bad. I RTV'ed it because i broke the old one and have to go to the dealer for a new one to lazy. All vaccum lines are good now. But would that gasket make it run to rich to poor fuel out the exhuast? :chairshot: thinking about throwing it the lake.

ok all back together but it has a hard time starting and when started dies fast. I cleaned the EGR and IAC before installing them. very rough idle. basicaly acting the same way before i replaced the head gaskets. I am wondering if the timing belt might be off a tooth. any thoughts. Also does anyone have a picture of the stock vaccum hose locations, i forgot where they went. toys, I looked at your pictures for the vaccum lines but that wasn't stock locations, plus some of them did not even look like the 3vz-fe.

Finally got that damn bolt off heres the picture. After hours and hours of drilling with some cobalt drill bits and hammering with a nice sharp chisel this is what is left. Also when I was chiselling it, it started turning out so i chiseled a screw driver slot and unscrewed it.

got the rear head out no problems except i broke my thumb breaking the exhuast bolts loose. the gasket didn't look to bad like yours. on the front head some dumbass reused the bolts so i have them all out cept for one thats stripped "any ideas" to remove i thought of welding a socket to it but i wouls only be able to give maybe 3mm of weld because limited space. or drill the top off and worry about it later. toys shoot me your number email icemaninlv@hotmail.com later

got the head gasket set from bell lexus in AZ for 225 plus shipping can't beat that for a dealer part. They even beat autozone 255 napa wanted 388. I did good. Well let yall know the results over the weekeend.

ok that email address for the gaskets said he only has them for the 3vz-e will that work? also checked the rear head cyl. 1 and 3, 145 and 150 compression so the rear bank is blown.

I checked the compression on the front head. 174,169,176 haven't checked the rear. The injectors are brand new and the cold start was cleaned. haven't cleaned the MAF. I might as well change the head gasket 225 thousand miles and while the head is off get a valve job. thanks for the help.

Ok 1993 ES300 225000 miles.changed plugs, wires cap and rotor. New hose to the AFM. New injectors and regulater. All new vaccum hoses. Had new intake gaskets and both intakes cleaned. New ignitor and coil. Problem is when started and placed in gear you hit the gas and vechile does nothing. Put it in N and it rev's fine, back to D and it goes but barely you have to floor. the car putts around and the power is not there. Some white smoke coming out of pipes but smells like gas. This happens all the time but rarely it runs like it is meant to. but within10 mins, it back to running crappy. When it runs good no white smoke. The only parts hav not changed are timing belt (which is next), computer and distrubitor. Any help will work. I am a jet mechanic and am capable of working on toyotas/lexus. Thanks, Mike. I have read all the searched topics but all solutions have failed.