Seeking Help For Ae95 Repairs

[RED-ROD]

Gday,

 

I have recently purchased 2 x AE95 wagons. One of them i can't start.......so don't know what is wrong with it yet. The other i have been driving around. But is is starting to smoke a lot.........mainly after idling for awhile........have been told it may be valve seals.

I do not have a workshop manual and i am looking for one so i can use the engine specs.

Could anybody help with info on how to locate.

Any advice will be much appreciated.

 

Many cheers.

Rod

[Lachlan H]

Whate state are you in sorry? Someone give me a list of good wreckers in Melbourne, i went to one today they had manuals, but that doesnt help if your not from melbourne!

[tas_ae71]

it maybe a good idea to grab another head if you need to keep driving it? recondition it with new valve seals, cam seals and check/reseat the valves, have the head skimmed to ensure no head gasket worries..

 

as for the other one that wont start, 3 things a motor needs to have to run, air, fuel and spark. generally the air part is good.

 

you can check the the spark is happening by removing a spark plug lead, pull the boot back enough to expose the metal tip and hold it 3-5mm from the block or strut top bolt, something that has good earth and wont be damaged by electricity. get someone crank the motor a couple of runs, you should see blue spark jump the gap, if this is the case refit the lead because it must be a fuel problem. if there is a weak spark, that is that you have to be almost touching the metal part to see the spark or nothing happens (try another earthing point to make sure) you should investigate further. check that the distrubutor cap is not crack, bronken and fitted properly, that the rotor button is healthy and that the parts on the inside of the distributor cap are in good order, often they will haev a build up of white powery shit, clean if off. also try swapping the coil from your running one into this one. bundle the wires with marsking tape and mark them +- so they you don't get confused when refitting it. if this still dosent give you spark, there maybe a probelm with the distributor or wiring.

 

i don't know if they have a 4afe or 4afc.. ill mention both procedures.

 

for the carby version. remove the top of the air filter, grab a torch or in good light open the choke (springy flap at the top of the carby) and look down the thotte. pull on the accselerator or turn it by hand to make the butterfly open and close, you should see a mist of fuel squirt out. if it dosent there maybe 2 corses for this, 1 it has been sitting for a long time and the fuel has evaporated and gone crusty inside perhaps blocking it up, or 2 the fuel has evaportaed and the fuel pump hasnt managed to fill the carby up enough. you can then take top of the carby off and poor some fuel to fill up the fuel bowl about half way (not down the throtte as you will drown it, liquid fuel dosent combust , only in a mist/vapor form). refit the top of the carby and try to start again. it maybe wise to remove the carby, take it apart and clean the crap out of it, chances are that it would be suprisingly dirty for something that has fuel in it.

 

for efi. get someone to crank it while you stick your ear around the fuel tank area to hear for the fuel pump noise, if yo can't hear anything (it would probaly be fairly quiet) the that the connection it plugged in properly (perhaps even touch a test light on it when cranking to ensure it has power).

 

if you have both fuel and spark, check both cam and ignition timing. turn the motor by hand so that the timing mark on the crank pully lines up with the 0 mark. inspect the distributor to see if its facing the right direction (number one spark plug wire) if it isnt turn crank one full turn and it should be at number 1 at this point. if you have a timing light or know someone close by who has one if maybe a good idea to check it with one.

 

hope this gives you something to start with, in finding the problem.