last night i popped the bonnet and the ring around the oxygen sensor was red hot,i also believe the seal on the exhaust is leaking cause if i rev i see smoke coming from behind the shield if front of the block....not sure if that has something to do with it...
well thas wa everybody sayin,cause usually if the tranny givin out it's 1st and 2nd that goes first not 3rd,so i'll change the converter and see if that helps
tranny doesn't feel like its slippin but it doesn't pull off in drive gear when d tranny cold,i does have to run 2nd for a while and then let it get hot and try to get drive to engage.....
Sr-20de with a 4 speed cable tranny 1st and 2nd building speed but when i reach 3rd the rpm just stays there and the speed doesn't build any more,if i kick down to 4th it starts back to move a little but no further than 120. this started to happen a while after i used cheap tranny oil,don't know if ...
my first thought was exactly that.....bout 2 mth ago i realised the vacuum hose on d intake was collapsing with heat so i changed but prob still reoccured ill try re grounding d maf and putting a silicone gasket on it
After driving for a while and then go into traffic the idle raises to about 1500 and the drops to about 500 over and over..it only happens when the engine is at operating temp for a good while... the only way i get it to stop sometimes is to rev and release aggressively... i checked and changed vacu...
Yesterday i overheated and i believe my thermostat stuck(top hose hot and bottom hose cool)so i removed it,i noticed water dripping from a hose under the fuel rail....coming from the water pump into the thermostat housing.....i believe it's supposed to heat up the air goin up to the throttle body......
