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powerwave

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  1. we swapped intake manifolds, wiring harnesses, ecms. the 90 block had a knock sensor port but not the 89. if you use the lexus ecm you'll have a check engine light from the lack of knock sensor signal. the difference is because of the model year changes.
  2. if the guy is/was a toyota/lexus mechanic and can prove he's currently ase (preferably engine/advanced engine) and/or toyota/lexus certified... then and only then do you accept that offer. i just realized how many slashes i put into that post :P
  3. it's currently the dead of slow season over at the dealer service department so they'll be looking to pick up a job. if you go over to talk to them, they'll want to do it for you :P in 94 they came out with the first 1mz-fe, 97 still runs the 1mz but they've made some big changes to it since 94. they both run a 4spd automatic a541e tranny (i assume out of rarity you don't have a 5sp manual). i'm guessing you'll need to pick up a new ecu. even swapping our 89 2vz-fe into a 90 we had to swap ecu's along with a few other things. good luck!
  4. linkage sounds like it's broken, if one is moving freely of the other. motor's probably bad.
  5. vvt sensor code bank 2 sounds like one of the cams is off a tooth. redo timing belt lining up cams properly.
  6. when we bought ours, it came with a separate keyed lock for the drivers door. it wore out, just like yours. wish the previous owner had dealt with that in a less annoying fashion, but it works with the different key just fine. the little red alarm light comes on periodically when the car is locked.
  7. thank you kindly for the congratulations, kingjack. but i would like to set some things straight on the record here on behalf of my husband. 1. he loved fixing cars until his body couldn't take it anymore. he was very happy as a mechanic, but there were serious trade-offs to working for a dealership. 2. he already was well educated. ASE master, advanced engine performance and undercar expert don't just come with time- they come with hard work and a lot of studying. dealerships send their techs to school frequently. 3. never once did he forget his own personal ethics code. he hasn't brought home a ton of money but he hasn't come home with a guilty conscience either.
  8. yes that's half him and half me, galaxee. on PC i usually act as a translator since most of the folks there are newly interested in how cars work... other places it's pretty much me typing what he says- minus a comment or two.
  9. worked for a dealer. dealer work/flat rate is murder on the spine, on the family life, on the pocketbook if you have the least bit of dignity left in you. no, flat rate is the reason the business has its reputation. back to school next month to do something else that pays in dollars and not afterhours equipment availability... that pays for all the overtime hours.
  10. LOL, yeah we screw people over. we replace a set of vcg's on a v6 camry for under a hundred bucks and that's !Removed! people over. if you can tell me how a worn out a/c compressor bearing and a valve cover gasket replacement are related i'll retract all my statements. you want the other side? we've had that on our cars too. try a cv boot job shortly before having to replace a wheel bearing... unrelated! or throwing a clutch into a car only to have a halfshaft go. unrelated! oh oh i know! we just dropped an engine and trans into an es250 in july and a bearing is starting to go in the engine. SH** happens! some of us just know how to get over it.
  11. you can't say at what point the fuse blew. maybe it was after the tech finished the job. maybe it popped when you started the car. it's not like you can spot a failing fuse, you know. they just go. if they noticed it, they would have tried to sell you something. you've got this huge mistrust of dealers thing going on, and yet you think they'd pass up an opportunity to charge you for something? HA! at any rate, i can tell you many stories of people who have tried to pin their car breaking on US because we fixed something completely irrelevant. the best one was the a/c compressor story... late spring we put a set of vcg's on someone's car and a week later it got hot out. they turned on the a/c. compressor made horrible noise. gee, that must be powerwave's fault, yeah, they were under the hood last week. i've got more.
  12. mechanics are paid flat rate. he got $18 for the job if he's lucky, don't gimme that "for that price" line. "that price" is 80% dealer profit.
  13. geez. dealers consider guys like the OP to be scary. coincidences happen, especially on older cars. i can think of three off the top of my head that have happened to us on one side of the coin or another. so in short, chill.
  14. when you've already replaced the engine once and sure enough the replacement is knocking already, but you won't give up on it, no, you start looking for a *better* engine to drop in... stupid 2vz engines (if you're curious, that's not actually a 300, it's a 250)
  15. our saturn POS had an interference engine. we had a timing belt GUIDE, not the belt but the cheap POS plastic thing that was integral to holding the thing on, snap on us and the whole head ended up being screwed. valves were a sad, sad sight. i believe your 92 lexus has a 3vz in it, which is non-interference. those were here in north america from 92-93. the 1mz came around in 94 and was also non-interference until it was redesigned with vvt in 99. as far as i understand.
  16. oh hell. :( lemme find the thread... hope nobody minds the forum crossposting... http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=33878&hl= that's from a prius, not sure if it'll work in an es too, but it's worth a shot.
  17. that rear main's a real b**** to do but $1900?! yikes, a touch excessive. good thing you've got that extended warranty.
  18. you can use a transmission from an 87-91 camry but it has to be a *v6* engine. the trans is an A540E. if you were nearer to us we'd sell ya our spare but we're on the other coast.
  19. those were intended to be lifetime filters, so unless you got bad gas or something you don't HAVE to change it unless you just feel like doing so. here's a shot of it (you may notice some things are missing from the engine compartment ), it's the small black cylinder with the nut on top in front of the brake cylinder. behind the LH headlight, behind where that motor mount would go. it's so-so in terms of ease, depends if you're handy, if you're used to pulling cars apart. ;) here's a shot of the engine compartment intact. mostly. good luck!
  20. we bought our '90 es250 in june 07 to replace the camry that some *&^% hit while it was parked on the street one night. the engine was in bad shape, turns out the block looked like hell and a rod bearing was toast. so we dropped the 2vz-fe from above-mentioned camry into it, and the trans since we knew it was in great shape and had fewer miles. couple better looking engine mounts, brakes, control arms, and the radiator/fan assy we just replaced in the camry also went in it. so the car has cost us a total of $2000 (cost of car plus parts) and approaching 80 hours of labor to get it up and running. aside from the stuff i just listed it needed: rack and pinion unit buncha gaskets, seals, etc. since the engine and trans came out anyway 4 struts, coilover springs, mounts, all that suspension stuff new RH headlight, the cheapo looking adjuster mount was broken r134a conversion kit and a/c recharge that's really it! interior cleaned up real nice, but the driver's seat is in sorta rough shape. probably throw a seat cover on it for now. CD player security is locked up, and we're not in a position to pay lexus for the codes for it right now. car is two-tone white and gold outside and gray inside, has 168k on it. engine and trans have 140k on them. we had the engine not leaking a drop of oil back before the camry got hit, runs like a dream. guy we bought it from said he was the second owner. couple little dings in the body but nothing major. i detailed the interior already, exterior needs a good clay job and some wax but it already looks damn nice for a car its age.
  21. here's an abbreviated overview of the rest of the process: camry with engine. camry and engine, separated. recipient, donor, and engine in question. engines side by side, after swapping wiring harnesses, intake manifolds and front valve covers- the one on the left is the bad one. engine dropping in engine hanging by a couple motor mounts and the bar enter the transmission ready for the first drive around the block whew!!! got all that and cleanup done just in time to walk out the door, LITERALLY, on vacation. and the cause of the knock in the old engine: a rod bearing. the thing was toast anyway, the block was a real mess. he saved the heads, and the rod bearing for amusement value of course. needs some suspension work asap and a couple other minor things, but otherwise it runs really well :D
  22. engine and trans out of the ES. fortunately, the camry engine-trans removal was cleaner, that engine compartment was a mess. the camry is much cleaner, no oil leaks or anything. first few things out of the way shot of the engine in there hooking up the cherry picker and it's outta there engine compartment pretty much empty engine and trans in their resting place
  23. bought a '90 es250 with toasted engine (168k miles, found a bad rod bearing, block was crap when we disassembled it) for $600 at the end of june. total cost after accounting for repairs already completed and pending will be in the $2000 range.
  24. hello all, new here, not so new to the world of car forums. :) my husband and i just bought a 90 ES250 with a bad engine to fix up. we have an 89 Camry LE V6 that got smashed up by a hit and run driver from the local bar, and the engine in it is great. the ES is great in every other way. needs a few things beyond the engine, as expected (axle seals, rack, somethin else i don't recall) but the swap should work out just fine. kinda irritated that it needs a rack and we can't just use the one out of the camry we put in a couple months ago... damn! husband is a toyota tech so he knows toyotas inside and out. particularly the camry, that was the 3rd one we've owned. lexus isn't quite as familiar though it should be similar enough. looking forward to having a second car again! this one's beautiful too, much nicer than the camry.
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