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To: ebshumidors

Amazing link..!

Well I spent HOURS on my oil pan and I DID IT..!

First I hammered a buckknife tip under the bolt. Pried a bit, then snuck a surplus butter knife under there, too, took out buckknife. Pried some more with butter knife, snuck screwdriver under there. Withdrew butter knife, pried A WHOLE LOT with the screwdriver.

Hammered on that suckah a whole bunch. Like for an hour.

FINALLY a miracle happened and the whole stud unscrewed and came out, freeing my pan.

I cleaned out the boogers from the oil pan, replaced oil 5w-30 synthetic and put a thing of Lucas oil treatment in there, also.

SO RELIEVED..!!!

And I passed on your link to a bunch of Toyota people who will probably really love you for it.

What was that SOAK SOLUTION he put those 1MZ-FE heads in..?

SPARKLING..! Wow.


87 posted on 08/21/2016 7:57:47 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

NAPA carb cleaner. It comes in a 5gal bucket for @ $100. He used two buckets and poured them into a barrel. I just used one and soaked one side of the head, pan, etc., at a time. The problem you have was caused by the engine flush. It loosened too much, too soon. A gradual cleaning with marvel mystery oil would have been better.


88 posted on 08/22/2016 4:55:27 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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To: gaijin

NAPA carb cleaner. It comes in a 5gal bucket for @ $100. He used two buckets and poured them into a barrel. I just used one and soaked one side of the head, pan, etc., at a time. The problem you have was caused by the engine flush. It loosened too much, too soon. A gradual cleaning with marvel mystery oil would have been better.


89 posted on 08/22/2016 4:55:28 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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I suspect you’ll have the light again as the sludge works its way through. That’s why I recommend cheap 5w-30. I also recommend Marvel Mystery Oil because it is a cleaner. I ran into another problem on mine after a few thousand miles. The oil pump bypass seized up. Instead of changing the pump, I just took it apart and cleaned it. Not hard to do and it can be done by just dropping the oil pan.


90 posted on 08/22/2016 5:11:04 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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