Yeah I got an opened box deal on mine too..lol. Couldn't beat it

 

Install a new(new to my max) maf....no more stalling once up to operating temp on park or neutral....

 

didnt do anything yet but picked up some unneccessary parts

 

replaced the air duct into the throttle body, noticed it was starting to crack last week when i was putting it back on after installing a ground so i decided to buy a new one. i didn't notice how bad the old one was until i took it off today, rubber was cracked completely through right below where the clamp goes.



all the foam? gaskets and **** that go around the snorkel, at the elbow below the snorkel and the telescoping piece into the air box were pretty deteriorated. bought some weather stripping at lowes to try and re-do it and get some more solid connections

before:



after:



the telescoping piece felt real solid when i got it back in place, hopefully this keeps it still because it never seems to be in the right place when i look under the hood. elbow into the bottom of the snorkel felt solid too. i'm 95% sure the piece on the front of the snorkel will fall off shortly

halfassed wiped everything down in the air box area, installed new (OEM!) bolts because i snapped one a while back and just figured replace all of them. the new bolts were shorter than the old ones





lastly i put a new o-ring on the camshaft sensor and cleaned up the area. i was leaking oil from there so it seemed like the logical thing to do.

before:


after:

 

Good ish cornholio...

How much was the tb rubber?

 

paid $43.27 + tax at local dealer

 

Cool! i bet the old one was stiff and brittle...

 

definitely was stiff. it's amazing how much easier the new softer one slides on/off the tb compared to the old one. i guess that's what happens after 15 years.

another project i found is the coolant overflow tank thing showing it's age. the top plastic on that is all dried up and cracked through. i remember reading another member on here replacing theirs recently and i'm sure i'll be doing it before too long

 

Definitely, i did a valve cover gasket job today on a i30 ,i got bloody knuckles from getting off ...

The pcv valve was the original one needless to say the hose snapped tryna change it,also the hose that goes from one valve cover to another also snapped...

 

haha great, i might be looking at doing that in the near future too. i have a little bit of leaking on the front side, it would probably be a good idea to endure the headache that goes along with the back too just to get it done and not have to worry about it

 

The hardest thing for me was the four 12mm bolts from the bracket holding down the uim on bank1.
The rest was price of cake

Took 3 hrs charged $100...

 

i'm sure it's a 6 hour ordeal for a hack like myself haha. i'll get to it at some point though

 

Recently installed following stuff;

Suspension kit (1aauto)
4 Unity struts
Aftermarket power steering hose
Serpentine belts (gates and ACdelco)
Front rear cats (used & new Bosal)
Front and back valve covers (6th gen)
Spark plugs ( ngk oem)
Front 3 ignition coils
Oil change
Maf sensor

feels good to bring this maxima back!

 

I hit 175 km/h on the 401 after playing about with someone on a bike on the 401. Obviously bike guy won but what a rush :|

The car took forever to slow down and it almost felt like the car couldn't take the sharp turn off the highway (I think I was going 130 km/h and the sign said 40 km/h) but the car finally turned, lot of groaning from the rear, was using two hands to move wheel)... I thought I was heading straight to the barrier and going to crash ><

Meanwhile in the background Aqua Like a Robot was playing *BOOm BOOOM*



Weeeeeeeeee

 

Send me a dash cam vid ....

 

+1, I'd like the footage, I know you have one... hope it was recording!

 

2 coils and a starter and new weapon r filter now I have code p0430

 

An exhaust fell off a beater Honda on the highway. Boy does that make my **** boil...

So I see this exhaust rolling and bouncing into my lane...

Was able to avoid it with 90% of my car, still ran over the muffler with rear driver side wheel. Lucky as I was, I hit it perfectly on the muffler which just got squished and absorbed all the impact. No damage to car, wheel or tire, thankfully.

 

 

Wtf is that george?

 

woke up today with dead battery.

Went to Autozone and bought a Duralast Gold battery


I Didn't get to do my research on maxima batteries all because I had to go to work.

 

Damn, that woulda had me in a rage..lol

 

^^ Duralast is pretty good. I've had mine for 3yrs now. I'll probably change to an Optima red top before next winter. Duralast seems to last 3-5yrs no problem though.

Oh yeah, I was lol...

It took a good few hours for me to come down. People say it's not healthy to be so angry for that long, but I just couldn't help it lol

Still just happy as **** that did zero damage, besides having to clean some nasty rust off the tire.

 

Yeah I ran over some metal object a couple weeks ago that looked plastic......until I heard it smack up under the car. 15 miles till I had to get off so I waited hoping nothing was wrong. Everything was ok.

 

The third day I had my car someone threw a brick out of their car on the highway. It hit the ground and my Max got nailed by brick chunks down the drivers side... Nailed the fog light but not even a scratch on that!

 

Now that, is just ****ing retarded.. Reading that made me mad, and it didnt even happen to me! Lol

Some people deserve to be shot with a crossbow and have their hands removed so they can no longer operate anything or throw anything.

I would have followed that person from a distance and made sure they got seen by the 5.0....throwing projectile missle at vehicles on the hwy is a serious felony

 

Yo we can make a different thread for highway stories if y'all like....


Nanoskined the maxi....

 

I was pretty pissed off! It left its mark, three noticeable spots down the drivers side... they're deep . I'm just glad the brick didn't hit my car as a whole, or smash through the window.

 

^^ Thats terrible, unreal. Glad it wasnt worse like you said. Perhaps we should really make a new thread for road stories like nestor said

Btw, lookin nice and clean nestor!

 

I live in a nice, secluded neighborhood..

Washing the oem 17s to show to a fellow orger who wanted to purchase..

Set them in the front yard to dry...

Went in to watch some college basketball...

Came back out at the half and someone stole them.

-_____-

 

The guy probably came early....

 

Maybe they thought you were throwing them out

 

I disagree people don't wash stuff that goes to the dump...

 

Fair point, that's just bad luck.

 

I filled up my car with gas ($76.01) and calculated my fuel economy.... 14.7MPG What the F**K, this is with extremely light driving, I would get less than 5MPG if I drove it hard!

Won't be using Shell again, I need to figure out what the heck is wrong with my car. Help.

 

Well my neighbor said she saw a beater pickup truck with all kinds of junk in the back pick them up... my guess is that its a guy collecting curbside scrap and getting $$ for it.

They weren't anywhere near the curb though..so the scumbag doesnt care obviously. Ill be making a phone call to the local recycler tomorrow morning asking them to keep a lookout. Otherwise ill be on the lookout for him.

 

^^ That's ridiculous, you don't go on someones damn yard and take stuff, that is clearly not trash. That is also tresspassing on private property.

This is why I keep a camera in front/back of house. And I live in a nice secluded neighborhood, too.

 

Could be your O2 sensors, the upstream ones. As they wear out, they don't send an accurate reading to the ecu.

 

Finally changed the rear VC and did spark plugs. Purrs like a kitten now. Might need to re-torque the VC bolts, looks like it might be leaking a smidgen near/under the TB.

 

You are missing a hood emblem


That's awful man