So, I was ripping apart the max today (injector trouble) when I had the intake off I found a few interesting things.

1. In all the time I have had my max, i never even noticed until today a nice little sticker on the hood telling when the timing belt was replaced, so that was nice as I was planning on replacing it because I had no idea if it had been done or when.

2. With intake manifold off I see one of the exhaust nuts is missing.. seems it just fell off, is this normal? And yes, I will be going to the parts store and getting one to throw on there.

Next project is to clean IACV, replace TPS and that should about finish up my "replace everything" task I have recently undertaken.

 

Broken exhuast stud, who hasn't had that problem.

 

i havent










crap..............

 

I have two broken studs that I am aware of as of right now which have been broken for past 2 years

 

As strange as it sounds, the stud is intact. It's just missing the nut on it.

 

i have a crack in my ypipe and a rusted-out rattling heatshield on my catalytic converter.... and all of that system is pretty much a bunch of rust

 

ive had broken studs.[3 now] for a year now...
Sucks cause it wont pass emissions..

 

you didnt replace ALL of them at the same time?

 

I got 18 new studs So, was your timing belt change overdue according to the sticker?

 

I'll make it a project to replace all od them this winter maybe... As for the timing belt, it was done at 115,000 in june of 2002. I curently have 148,000 on the max.

 

eh I guess you still got a couple more miles to pile on before you begin to worry..


EDIT: actually isnt it like every 4years/60k whichever comes first?