Recent content by ricky66

Yup, the square shaped rubber cap at the top of the tube that slides down over the spark plug was sitting about 5mm above the valve cover and couldn't be pushed home by use of brute force and ignorance. It was an odd knocking sound that was produced which prompted me to investigate further...

Thanks mate, 5/8 sounds like a starting point. I'm in Australia and we're metric here and mostly (my generation) use English terms for tools. I've got plenty of sockets, extension bars, speed bars etc and a few plug spanners (long thin walled tube with hex pressed into the ends) but can get any...

Hi all, To cut a long story short my daughters '95 7AFE powered (rebadged) Corolla Hatch developed a light knock in the valve cover area around number 3 cylinder. At first I thought it was the injector but later found the spark plug cap was proud of the cover due to crud around its base...

The 1.8 (coded 7A-FE or similar) is also non-interference. Reading the fine print of my daughters '95 1.8L Nova owners manual (a locally badged Corolla) it says to replace the belt at 100,000km under severe op conditions, or 200,000 under normal driving conditions. I have a 5VZ-FE powered ute...

My '74 KE20 survived 50K (kms) of incredibly hard driving 30 odd (very odd) years ago with me at the wheel on 5000 km oil changes and nothing else. I think it had about 150K kms when I sold it. We have two V6 Toyos now, both on 10K km OCI's and both are very crisp. I expect my 5VZ-FE HiLux to do...