05-22-2013, 09:59 PM
I went and picked it up back during spring break. That weekend I flushed the coolant system and replaced that. Drained the oil and put some in to run temporarily. After that it pretty much sat until I got home from break. As soon as I got home I started cracking away. First thing was to change all the spark plugs and secondly to drain the 9 gallons of fuel out of there with a harbor freight hand pump (holy hell it hurt), an hour later I was feeling high and the tank empty. When I had pulled the plugs they had oil in it and found it was a common thing for the valve cover gasket to cause this. I personally didn't see the old one to be bad but hey it was like 6 bucks from TurnerMotorsports. I then put some new fuel in and I wasn't getting fuel and found the transfer pump to be bad. Bought a new one replaced it and still wasn't getting fuel. Finally my dad helped me figure out what was going on when we jumped the fuel pump relay and it started spitting fuel. It turned out to be the main relay. Replaced that today and it finally was spitting fuel out but I'm still not getting the start. It wants to but I'm having trouble figuring out what is restricting it from finally starting. Hopefully I will be picking up some tires soon so I can throw them on at my friends house (he has a tire mount and balancer I can use for free) before I head back at the end of the month. I also just traded the driver seat to my friend because my fat ass wasn't fitting in there. I'm looking into the Sparco US evo 2 (I believe). Hopefully have it fired up soon and then I can get some of the stuff cut and weld. Oh and I also picked up a Sabelt 4 point for the passenger and a for the driver side a G force one from Justin. Any advice, hints, etc spit it out!
Previous vehicles:
2006 Toyota Tacoma
2011 Jeep Patriot
1998 Land Rover Discovery
1995 Land Rover Discovery
1995 BMW M3
1995 Mazda Miata
2000 Jeep Cherokee
1989 BMW 325is
2004 Subaru Forester XT
1984 BMW 325e
2003 Subaru WRX
2004 Honda Civic SI
2015 Scion TC
2000 Ford Expedition
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2006 Toyota Tacoma
2011 Jeep Patriot
1998 Land Rover Discovery
1995 Land Rover Discovery
1995 BMW M3
1995 Mazda Miata
2000 Jeep Cherokee
1989 BMW 325is
2004 Subaru Forester XT
1984 BMW 325e
2003 Subaru WRX
2004 Honda Civic SI
2015 Scion TC
2000 Ford Expedition
Follow my adventures on instagram.
