Today i changed my plugs and cleaned my engine bay using a foamy engine cleaner because it had sat at the body shop and got an inch of dust on the entire thing. I used to have the NGK 3330 plugs gaped at how they came. Now i just put in the 6097 plugs gapped at .028 and it ran like shit. It would bog and miss as soon as you hit the gas. So i re-gaped them at .033 and that took care of that. But it still did not pull as hard as it used to before i changed them. It was still slow. Im BPU with a front mount. Anyways i went to dinner tonight and on the way there the trac off light and abs light came on for about 2 seconds. Then went off. Got there and eat. On the way home the trac off light and engine light have came on and are still on. I got home a minute ago and turned the car off. Then turned it back on hoping that it would be gone. NO luck. Here is the funny thing. It ran like crap before the lights came on. I took it on a back road and floored it. Its faster than ever!!! But why would it be that that with those lights on now?? Was it the trac. control that mad it feel like it was pulling timing as a floored it with the new plugs or what? Any help guys? Ill check the code in a hour or so and get back to you on that. Thanks in advance.
Got the check engine code : I jumped the terminals and it blinked seven times then paused and then blinked on more time then started over agian. What code is that?
do you have EGR block off plate? if you do and get 7 blinks and then one, then its the egr. if you did the egr block off plate, did you put a resistor in there to fool the ecu? well take a look at this. It has all the code for obd 1 car:
the trac light would stay on if your CEL is on...maybe your CEL isn't lighting up due to a bad solider (very common). If you have your egr on...I would suggest checking your CEL code again. You need 2 people to do it. follow the instruction on mkiv.
I think a better description is in order! Dont you have a "trac" off switch? What do you mean by "engine" light is on? Are you refering to the CEL? What year is your car? Could be possible you got that foamy crap in a electrical connector and is causing a fault.
Try a little better job explaining each problem, because I see more than one.
Yeah the ideal has been rough. So why has the trac off light came on? Is it becuase the engine light came on? It will not turn off by the trac button. Could i have got water in a eletrical place and if so i have drove it enough that the water would have dried way before this has happened. Could that have shorted something out maybe? I will check the hoses as i bought new different plugs as these ones are running like crap.
This happened to me when one of my coil pack connections was loose. Fixed that and everything is fine. Double check those connections, with old age they become brittle.
If you coil pack connectors are brittle, I would get a hold of Curt Aigner at Elmhurst Toyota and get some from him. He has great prices and a good guy to deal with
Yeah those broke when i did my spark plugs i pluged them all in tight but they still are broke so i will be getting them. I checked the EGR and the hose on the bottom is broke in half! Would that be why it is running like crap?
Yeah those broke when i did my spark plugs i pluged them all in tight but they still are broke so i will be getting them. I checked the EGR and the hose on the bottom is broke in half! Would that be why it is running like crap?