NJ B.S. Thread

I knew you were a degenerate.

 

On a daily basis I see people who are far more important than others, they cut people off, blow past others at 90mph, don’t even use their blinkers, all because they’re far more important. Such a shame

 

My mom called me a juvenile delinquent when she snitched and reported me to my dad.

She still calls me that. Lol.

 

Ok, so I pulled #5 coil and there was all kinds of moisture on the exterior of the rubber boot. So I went ahead and pulled the #5 plug and there was moisture and gooey gunk on the terminal/ceramic insulator. So I’m guessing that there was water intrusion recently ( as suggested by @MY50cal). And was likely when I was washing the radiator fins with a garden hose sprayer and decided to give the engine bay a few quick blasts of water a month ago.

I shop vac’d the cylinder plug hole in case of other gunk or water and installed a new plug. In order to isolate the problem, I needed to change only one thing (as suggested by @loosnut ) so I wiped down the old coil and re-installed it. And did a road test.

Voila! No misfire! Old Ignition Coil still functions as designed.

Now I’ll pull the Old Ignition coil, switch out the old rubber seal with a fresh one from my spare Ignition coil (gifted to me from @HolyHandGrenade) and reinstall with the appropriate di-electric grease (as described to me by @JLink )

While I’m in the general area, I’ll replace all the plugs and clean the MAF sensor and throttle body.

Hopefully this is a permanent fix.

Thanks everyone for your input.

@Comatose @EatSleepTacos @Anchovy @ovrlndkull @Rockbaron1 @Blackout14 and others.

 

Last night first attempt at refilling 1lb propane bottles. Success

 

I have that same adapter. I really like it. I never bothered to weigh them though. I guess I just figured it is what it is.

This reminds me. I need to fill a few before our trip.

 

Be careful cleaning the MAF sensor....

 

Gotcha. Did it a three years ago with no issue.

There’s a nice Throttle Body/MAF cleaning write up on here somewhere that was very detailed with nice pics.

 

Heating up the parent tank and chilling the smaller tank makes it go quickly and get a better fill in my experience. I do the same thing.

 

I put the big tank in the sun and the small tanks in the freezer

 

It’s easy. Pull it out, wire brush it, knock it on the work bench to get the debri off, reinstall.

















Please. No one do this...

 

Exactly!!!!

 

https://youtu.be/fD1CmorB_qM

Best way I’ve seen yet. Been doing itnlike this for a while now and passed that knowledge on to @Chux

 

That's good news Floyd...

 

Yeah. I was hoping it was something simple.

Tearing apart an engine to change a head gasket doesn’t sound like fun. Or cheap.

 

Wtf? I didn’t see this part of your instruction.

 

good to know …...
nice R&D !

 

Bear Mountain Oktoberfest Meetup has been narrowed down to Sunday Oct 7th or the 14th. If you're interested in going, vote in the new poll or leave a comment. This is just a meetup, no off roading or camping. Just beers, food and hanging out.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2nd-annual-bear-mountain-oktoberfest-meetup.566091/

 

@Bastek @pmstoy10 you guys doing this? Maybe we can meetup to exchange some TW Express stuff.

 

@Chux or anyone else.

What’s that satellite com deal you use? Looks like I may end up running the Kokopelli solo.