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the "doctor shopping" lead to my oil pan threads to be stripped, so I had to get another ooil pan in the time I was banned from bitog (i was banned for a month, they thought I was trolling, I"m not, I acutally had these issues, and was strugglign, and SLOWLY figured them out and got to this point today), i'm worried about my camry control arm, though.
But one mechanic (don't know who) but somebody, but I have a likely candidate given how incompetent he was, he claimed you needed a FIPG tool to do my camry's oil pan and that wouljd cost 1000 dollars and therefore I'd pay and he told me to just go to the dealer, he probably didn't want to deal with my car as he is biased against imports.
FIPG is about 15 dollars and is the black rtv gasket that toyota uses on their oil pan, liar!
and most shops wanted 3 hrs or like 280 or at least 200 somethign dollars for the oil pan, i bought 3 pans, a new one from oirelly and advance auto, both spectra, but oreilly had a LT warranty, but i realzied it'd be useless as they said they won't honor it if the therads are stripped again.
so i was looknig all over junkyards for one, a u ppull it had it, but then that vehicle was destroyed a few days later, before i had a chance to make it to the junkyard! 19.99 from u pull it, so then i went to the non u pull it's, they had one from a scion tc for 50, and one from a camry for 50 but it was in bad shape, so I went with the scion tc one, installed it, and returned the two new oil pans, spectra, and I asked on toyotanation a lot about oil pan gbrands. the scion tc one had a little rust in it.
worried about that, that won't affect anything will it? When I pulled my oil pan off (don't see why you need 3 hrs, you don't need to drop the exhaust or crossbar as the shops claimed!) just use a u joint as well as a 1/4 ratchet and extension bar, use 1/4 drive tools to get into those hard to reach spaces
i didn't use the flex ratcheting wrenches i bought, but they were on sale just in time, for me, when i wanted them for this project, they were on sale, 5 for 19.88 vs 39.88 normal and they are really expensive elsewhere, so i bought them but didn't use them, but i plan to drop my trans pan soon
i mentioned on toyotanation the trans case leak, not sure if I mentioned it here already, but I'm going to drop my trans pan and change the filter and gasket (go with oem or go with wix, oem is only slightly more expensvie, but wix is good, too? oreily's has wix), and see if changing the pan bolts and ban gasket will solve the leak
i went in last thursday to the tyota dealership for a free inspection, this was one in ann arbor
the one in canton, victory toyota, got [censored] at me and banned me from coming back for free inspections, and they did mention the trans leak but said not to worry about it, as well as needing to redo the ball joint as the new ball joint which was improperly installed was shot, but i did it yesterday, successfull, so i guess i'm set for now
but victory toyota did mention a timing chain cover leak and a valve cover leak *(jjust did the gasket 3 years ago? or 2.5 yrs ago, it was in late 2013), so I know how to address the valve cover leak and want to diy it this time, but how do you solve a timing cover leak! the old oil pan which I took out had a lot of oil residue near the part which goes in for where the filter is placed, and I heard if that is the case, you indeed do have a timing cover leak, so how do you address that?
What needs to be replaced for that and is it a hard DIY? glad most of my issues are sovled now.
And the water pump/serp belt took me about a week to do, it took up most of the 1 week I had off for christmas/new year's vacation, so I spent my week off fixing the camry, and though I struggled with it, with the help of a family member and a neighbor, I was able to finish it, I struggled, but I persevered and got it done.
but speaking of the water pump, I am concerned the water pump is leaking again, SOB! I bought an aisin one from amazon (everyone was like, OEM, OEM) and now, I notice coolant on the garage floor, small spots of coolant, could it be the water pump is leaking again? It was a tough job, i'd hate to have to do it again! and i installed a new bando belt.
But one mechanic (don't know who) but somebody, but I have a likely candidate given how incompetent he was, he claimed you needed a FIPG tool to do my camry's oil pan and that wouljd cost 1000 dollars and therefore I'd pay and he told me to just go to the dealer, he probably didn't want to deal with my car as he is biased against imports.
FIPG is about 15 dollars and is the black rtv gasket that toyota uses on their oil pan, liar!
and most shops wanted 3 hrs or like 280 or at least 200 somethign dollars for the oil pan, i bought 3 pans, a new one from oirelly and advance auto, both spectra, but oreilly had a LT warranty, but i realzied it'd be useless as they said they won't honor it if the therads are stripped again.
so i was looknig all over junkyards for one, a u ppull it had it, but then that vehicle was destroyed a few days later, before i had a chance to make it to the junkyard! 19.99 from u pull it, so then i went to the non u pull it's, they had one from a scion tc for 50, and one from a camry for 50 but it was in bad shape, so I went with the scion tc one, installed it, and returned the two new oil pans, spectra, and I asked on toyotanation a lot about oil pan gbrands. the scion tc one had a little rust in it.
worried about that, that won't affect anything will it? When I pulled my oil pan off (don't see why you need 3 hrs, you don't need to drop the exhaust or crossbar as the shops claimed!) just use a u joint as well as a 1/4 ratchet and extension bar, use 1/4 drive tools to get into those hard to reach spaces
i didn't use the flex ratcheting wrenches i bought, but they were on sale just in time, for me, when i wanted them for this project, they were on sale, 5 for 19.88 vs 39.88 normal and they are really expensive elsewhere, so i bought them but didn't use them, but i plan to drop my trans pan soon
i mentioned on toyotanation the trans case leak, not sure if I mentioned it here already, but I'm going to drop my trans pan and change the filter and gasket (go with oem or go with wix, oem is only slightly more expensvie, but wix is good, too? oreily's has wix), and see if changing the pan bolts and ban gasket will solve the leak
i went in last thursday to the tyota dealership for a free inspection, this was one in ann arbor
the one in canton, victory toyota, got [censored] at me and banned me from coming back for free inspections, and they did mention the trans leak but said not to worry about it, as well as needing to redo the ball joint as the new ball joint which was improperly installed was shot, but i did it yesterday, successfull, so i guess i'm set for now
but victory toyota did mention a timing chain cover leak and a valve cover leak *(jjust did the gasket 3 years ago? or 2.5 yrs ago, it was in late 2013), so I know how to address the valve cover leak and want to diy it this time, but how do you solve a timing cover leak! the old oil pan which I took out had a lot of oil residue near the part which goes in for where the filter is placed, and I heard if that is the case, you indeed do have a timing cover leak, so how do you address that?
What needs to be replaced for that and is it a hard DIY? glad most of my issues are sovled now.
And the water pump/serp belt took me about a week to do, it took up most of the 1 week I had off for christmas/new year's vacation, so I spent my week off fixing the camry, and though I struggled with it, with the help of a family member and a neighbor, I was able to finish it, I struggled, but I persevered and got it done.
but speaking of the water pump, I am concerned the water pump is leaking again, SOB! I bought an aisin one from amazon (everyone was like, OEM, OEM) and now, I notice coolant on the garage floor, small spots of coolant, could it be the water pump is leaking again? It was a tough job, i'd hate to have to do it again! and i installed a new bando belt.