Recent content by JTOetjen

Just stopping by to say I'm somewhat of a twat.. I wasn't sure how anyone was able to get the bolts to even start without having the rail halfway pressed into place.. after messing with it again I stopped, looked around, and decided to organize the mess of bolts I had. Somewhat common thing to...

I'll give it another go on my next day off. Spent the last two hours putting all the ass I had into it and didn't really feel the desire to smack it much harder with a hammer due to obvious issues that may occur. Maybe someone else will chime in with a cheeky way of getting it done.. at...

As title implies.. having issues getting the fuel rail to slide back into place. Tried a 'variety' of lubricants on the o-rings, but the rail refuses to slide back into place. Even took a hammer and gave it a few hardy smacks across where the bolts hold it into place to see if I could even get...

So... Chased down all the vac. leaks I had and during a short jaunt, engine started running lean again. Working on removing injectors to track down potential fueling issue, but previous folks torqued the bolts down to god knows what. The last bolt I have to get out is firmly stuck. I've beat...

Plugs are gapped to .028 Boost leak tested - Oil cap holds 0 pressure. Would be pretty odd for the cap to of suddenly started causing these issues. I noticed before hand, when changing the oil after getting home because everyone says 'recently changed oil' when selling their car, that the oil...

During 4th/5th in boost is when the problem suddenly happened. I limped her home the remaining 1/4 mile or so. When I slammed on the gas AP claims 0 STFT/LTFT, but is was still stuttering a ton. Car barely wants to start, super choppy, 'smooths' out some after getting going. I haven't...

Hey guys, want to start of by saying thanks for any help. I bought a Speed3 and it was having issues, previous owner was not maintaining the vehicle and was being rather rough with it. I got it home, fixed the obvious issues (overly worn pads/calipers/new oil pan) but had a persistent hiccup...

Appreciate the help. I ended up weeding through what I could find and pieced together some work instructions for myself. I do not believe, without damaging the mating surfaces, that I'd of been able to 'force' the pan into place. There was more than a marginal overhang onto the timing cover...

I used the search feature, but 'oil pan replacement' and several other combination of words resulted in not finding what was needed -- or a search that failed because of too many common keywords. I was not able to find a good source for how to drop and replace the oil pan on a '10 Speed 3...