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1-5 get a new mechnaic 1- power steering leak at the rack or look for a wet oil pan 2- baking soda 3- see #1 and never go to them again 5- see #1 When is the next timing belt change due? You need to find a better mechanic then you been going to, i hate to say go to a dealer, but you arent having any luck. Answer the belt question first Which engine transmission and how many miles on the car

Thinking about it there is a solenoid inside the tranny the controls the over running clutch. This allows for engine braking. It releases the over running clutch so the car is in "neutral". If this solenioid is sticking/going or its seals are bds this could be the reason. nipper

try shifting it manually and let us know what happens nipper

lets go with the lost 50 lbs idea .... i like that one (instead of this gained 25 from the back surgery) nipper

but mine has corn in it nipper

SVX do not have an H6 in them. The SVX is a regular 4 cyl with two more cylinders added. SVX has a timing belt, H6 has a timing chain ... i can go on but you get the idea.... and sure one less svx for me to buy nipper

when you get it the two biggest things you can do is a tranny cooler and a spin on tranny filter. Then you can get around to either a manual or a legacy automatic tranny swap. nipper

thats odd since in japan they use kilometers. i guess they do the conversion. i would still buy one either way as they usually have more power then us engines. nipper

is that 40-60,000 miles or kilometers? nipper

yes and no. Tokyo, and japan in general had a HUGE pollution problem that went uncehcked untill the mid 1980 (where do you think the smog monster came from in the Godzilla series). It may seem wasteful for them from the way we see things, but not from thier side. they were having huge health problems from the pollution. Health care is more costly then cars to the goverment. The goverment doesnt pay for cars, but does hospitals. JDM is there way of recycling cars untill the US govt finds something wrong with it. Personally im not keen on entire cars being shiped. Parts i dont mind. nipper

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Well this is an electronic problem of some sort. If you can make it happen on command do it, then check the cam angle crank angle sensors and the engine temp sensor. Also check output at the ignitor. Can be any one of those. If you have injectors working buy no spark it may be the ignitor. nipper

After doing more research on this, i found out that in some areas of japan older cars are juts banned from being registered, so they become automatic junk. Alsoi realize japan isnt all the big, so cars dont get a lot of miles on them Sort of like finding a car in hawii with a few 100,000 miles on it, thats alot of laps nipper

Actually japapnese MV Law makes it tougher each year for the car to pass inspection. They have an inspecion prgram that makes our in the states look like breeze, and fees gfo up every year on the car. The other reason these cars are around is that there is no used car market in japan. Also cultural Japan is a society that prides itself on having the latest and greatest. No one over there wants a four year old or older car. Also unlike here, when the japanese tighten emission controls on cars, the new standards are retroactive to all cars on the road no matter how old. Thats a huge reason as to why there is a good supply of cars. http://www.cse.polyu.edu.hk/~activi/BAQ2002/BAQ2002_files/Proceedings/Subworkshop4/sw4a-6Kawamata_Final.pdf go to page 10 nipper

geta hair drier or torch and heat up the tube. Gum is holding everything in one peice like glue. Glues biggest enemy is heat. nipper

price seems high, what kind of work was done on the car. If they have all the bills that may justify a higher price. Color is important too. Good colors that year, not the icky ones they have today nipper

ok guys i dont know how to load thumbnails here so i emailed them to Saw. Ill email them to anyone who can do the magic and make them work here nipper

http://mightyautoparts.com/pdf/articles/tt72.pdf sigh, its common knowledge that high voltage can do really weird things you wont get inductance at 1 volt as you would with 10000 volts in the stated condition of ignition wires. Also there are far more things out there then cars with high voltage, maybe i should have clarified that, as i was making a general statement and not a car specific statement. I worked for a military contractor making helicopter towed mine sweepers and sonar systems. We have had mine sweepers set off mines stored on land (not the design plan) and screw up LGA radar in heavy fog conditions (when the airport was closed). I have worked on 600 volt DC Transit cars where the amperage is unlimited. I have witnessd it all and stand by my comment. nipper

but they are cheap enough to watch hit the wal and self destruct ... can be god therapy, buy a few of them. hahaha lifetime warrenty, thats assuming they have them in stock. nipper

i was going to say this originally, but he said he has a used raditor from a running car in this one. I asked about the altenator because a low alt ouput can make the temp gauge read high. One way to tell if the radiator is clogged, fell the temp of the two hoses after the Tstat has warmed up. touch the two hoses. They should be close to the same temp, if not clogged radiator. Another is just plain age. This is a typical of a clogged radiator. nipper

generally you want to be at as low an rpm as possible and as close to the HP torque begining as you can get. GM s shich tend to have decent highwya milage at speed i seem to remeber are below 2000 rpm. In fith gear you want the rpm to get as low as possible with out the engine bucking when you stomp on it at 55 mph a good reference point) nipper

now i have a peircing or two but that even bugs me out nipper

They are called torsion springs http://www.mcmaster.com/ . You will have to take the pedal apart to replace them and may void your warrenty. Now there used to be aspeed alert in jcwhitney which was a spring that went behind the pedal you may try that too. To order the springs you need to measure the springs. Good luck, but personally i think you should just get used to it. nipper

www.radiator.com on occasion sells on ebay (no s). great people to work with. nipper

as long as she isnt imaginary nipper