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now that i look at it, the screw has a point....any screw in the carb isnt pointed like that as far as i know. so now I'm f@$king stumped. i'll mess with it more tomorrow. but now i will take a look into the carb to see if thats the screw. another thing is that i don't think that the throttle plate screw is torx pan head. i'm confused as hell! :)

nice photoshops.

K&N allow too much dirt past with out an oiled foam pre-filter. use 10 weight oil in a spray bottle and dust it onto it allowing it to gently absorb. wash it with dish soap gently.

i get home from work and my step mom tells me "well i was mowing and it ran out of gas, i filled it back up, topped up the oil, but then it wont start" so i go out and take a look...looks fine, nothing OBVIOUSLY wrong with it. it has spark and fuel...but its pulling too easy. no compression, this is bad as i just put on a new head gasket. so i pull it around front and pull the shroud and head. the intake valve is open. i spin the crank...it stays open. i think "f@$k bent valve f@$k f@$k f@$k" so i spin the valve....it spins true...wtf, not bent?....ok, maybe its just stuck? so i tap it with a screw driver hand.e. doesnt go back down....i'm getting a lil confused....so i pry it up with the blade of the screw driver... out falls a tiny screw, about 2 milimeters long and about one wide with an inset hex head. :) it was jamming the valve open preventing compression. HOW THE HELL DID IT GET IN THERE???!!! the air filter was on the whole time she was mowing. i'm thinking it HAD to have come loose from in the carb. so i need to pull that apart tomorrow and look for where it came from. but i have a good idea. i think its the screw that holds the butterfly to the shaft. :)

yikes! watch out for curbs! :dance:

ok, i got it in. brakes arent hooked up yet but it moved in my driveway. I'm gonna limp it to a shop next week and let them do the brakes and fix what ever else is fuct on it.

powerslot makes great rotors, I'm not sure if they make anything for the older corolla. i know they make them for my gen. powerslot rotors, hawk hps street pads and good tires will stop you faster then you would ever want to stop. i lock my AA yokohama tires with my stoke brakes. on stock all season crappy tires it can do 60mph-0mph in about 120 feet. compared to other cars in its class thats pretty good. and i will attest that that is an accurate number :) oh and yes, vented disc brakes will make a HUGE difference. even if they don't make specific ones for your car I'm sure that you can find some that will fit from a company or for the shopper on a budget the junk yard. :dance: brakes work by taking kinetic energy (the car moving) and turning it into heat by friction. the more heat you can dissappate roughly relates to the amount of stopping power. the agressiveness and composition of the pads also play a VERY large role.

cool....post pics of yours in oil.

you would think...but nope. oil sucks at absorbing and then giving up heat. also there isnt much surface area in relation to the volume of fluid. once it warms up it will just stay warm. i researched this a while back. water is the best liquid for cooling next to some exotic ($$$$$) fluids. 3m makes a non conductive fluid that conducts heat better than water...but its $300 a gallon. also remember density. water is denser than oil, that fact alone makes it conduct heat better. theres a reason why water is used, trust me. i run a water/anti freeze mix. about 1/3 gallon of water to about a cup of anti-freeze. sorry about my non metric units guys, i can't help that i'm a yank.

might as well go all out and make it actuated by servos to open with a push button :dance:

water cooling is more effeicent than that. water carries away more heat and..........how is he gonna cool the oil once it absorbs the heat? water cooled member btw :dance:

ya, the spring just shot straight up to the ceiling tho and bounced to the floor with out any damage to anything. thank god!

http://www.redlinetuning.com/products_quicklift.html maybe a pair of those could work?

haha i would imagine so. ive been having my friend with his POS caveleir drive me to get parts and help me with the un-fun things. today we took off that compressed spring. :) the spring compressor wouldnt grab it...so we used C clamps to hold the last few coils down to the strut. the nut flew off the top but the spring was still on there and compressed. hmmm how do we get that off....well i took off 2 of the 3 clamps holding it down then started to carefully loosen the last one. well it wouldnt budge...so like any good mechanic i whacked it with a hammer :D well the thredded part of the clamp bent and the spring shot off and me and my friend ducked. then laughed alot because somehow nearly being killed by a spring was funny :dance:

haha, thats what i was planning on doing, but i like to have some numbers handy. my air impact sucks, i can put down more torque with my hands than that thing can. i already broke a 6point socket trying to get some parts off. if anyone wants to see the carnage heres a link and the story. http://www.ericpuryear.com/Forum1/nfphpbb/viewtopic.php?t=37 that hurt needless to say, oh and don't look if you're squeamish as there is blood. sob anyone know where, other than a dealer, where i can a strut boot? the rubber peice that protects them from the elements. mine is shot to shit. and just for laughs heres pics of the bent strut i alluded to earlier.

thanks for the welcome, i am from chicago so my car has 13 years of rust and salt that i have to battle with when ever i work with it. :dance: i need the info for the bolts and such back there, i don't have the money or interest to change the suspension set up on it. for me its just not worth it.

Does anyone here have the torque specs for the rear suspension for an AE102 corolla/prizm. i need the specs for pretty much everything back there since i'm replacing a broken strut on the rear passeger side. i was hit on the wheel and it bent the shock and jammed it. my wheel survived with only a scuff. i got a set of alloys off an 90 prizm, ae86 corollla equivelent, and holy crap those wheels are strong!. best $60 i spent. thank you all in advance to anyone who can get me the info i am seeking or to anyone who can point me to where i can find it