Guys what am I looking at here? was giving the car a service and while checking the spark plugs I noticed wells 1 and 4 had oil in it - 4 having a lot more oil than 1

I cleaned it up and other than the engine being a bit smokey when it was first started presumably because a wee bit of oil got in.

Other than changing the 2 fouled plugs - I assume the issue is with a seal somewhere? I done a 20km run earlier and the wells are still clean. I assume if it was a seal issue it would have breached again

I'd rather fix the issue than forking out on some new iridium plugs

It appears the culprit is usually the valve cover gasket

I guess that and 4 new plugs are this months shopping bill

+1, sound like you need to replace your rocker cover gasket, easy enough job

mickybo wrote:
+1, sound like you need to replace your rocker cover gasket, easy enough job

Just onto Mr.T just there -

Costs a not so pricey €22 for both gaskets - hopefully these will last 15 years!

Changing out all 4 of the Iridium plugs although keeping the centre 2 as a backup as they weren't fouled - Shame as I only got 25k miles out of them

FYI Part no for 99 Rev 5

11213 GASKET, CYLINDER HEAD COVER
11213-88460

11214 GASKET, CYLINDER HEAD COVER, NO.2
11214-88460

Finally got around to this!

Been dormant a while in the motoring end of things - bought a house 2 years ago so its consumed alot of my time, time to give the MR2 some much needed TLC.

Shes a workhorse in fairness and other than keeping on top of oil changes Ive had to doo feck all with her since. Valve cover has been leaking a few months now


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Sparkplug 4 was pretty bad - i've been keeping an eye on them the last few months but used my car more in the past week then the rest of the year so expected it to be as bad


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Sparkplug 1 leaking as well but not to same extreme


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Massive amount of stuff has to come out to get to the cam cover - ACIS and Throttle Body need seperation


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Might help when putting the jigsaw backtogether!


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ACIS out

Cam cover was filthy, someething thats always annoyed me, I comtemplated painting it but I'm not too bothered on how the engine is dressed so I cleaned it up with some brake cleaner


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Everything looking healthy, the screws were very loose so I suspect the actually seal hadnt failed


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All out - relatively straight forward following the docs - only step missing is the EGR step which was self explanatory


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Dont you just love it when the glove rips :(


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Parts required


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Revision 5 gasket (other revisions can be slightly different) is cheaper from MrT than a blueprint copy! €27 all in the old one lasted 15 years so I'm quids in

11213-88460
11214-88460

Toyota recoomend "seal packer" the actually proper stuff in Toyota costs €70 - its recommend you dont use RTV

The Dirko Eiring 036.161 is an OE equivelant of the Toyota FPG packing

22271-88461

Throttle body gasket - worth change this while its out €1.50 from MrT

Looking a lot cleaner now!


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on a side note is this the usual positioning for a timing belt?


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While its out may as well change the airfilter (less than 15k on it and nearly 3 years old)


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Things were going smoothley, too smoothely, was bolting on the ACIS cover and looked at the wrong step in the EG - instead of 8.5nm I thought it was 18nm and sure enough I shear one of them off - luckily enough I was able to remove it with an extractor easily enough


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I ordered 6 new ones as I feel I probably compromised the other ones over torqing them - unfortunately I'm on the bicycle til Monday as MrT has none in stock :blush:

Part no for reference is 91511-40620 about a euro each from MrT ;)

As it stands -


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Nice write up - good to see you back

Nice one, KC'd! Great to see someone doing something to their 2, mine is garaged till next year

I always break something on my daily when fixing something else, feel your pain!

Cheers lads -yeah a bit of a nuisance alright but will survive til Tuesday!

Good job!

Nice bit of work there, great to see you are getting stuck into it yourself, always appreciate more, good job.

CHeers lads

Changed the ACIS head bolts due to the untorqueing plesantness!

P/N 90511-B0620 6 of them at around a euro each


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All torqued to 8.5nm this time :D

All back together


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Working grand since

Decided to do the oil today a fresh change - somehow the dipstick feckin broke 3 inches from the top - cursed at the moment! Will tackle that tomorrow- gluteny for punishment :(


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A side note anyone with an MR2 mk2 knows how this hanger joins up with the mount - assume its a bolt of some guise theres currently nothing joining the 2 - its just not clear from the EPC


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Far engine side


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That should be a long pin going into the rubber exhaust mount, your must have broken off.

Kc'd for the progress and dedication.

slipsliderg wrote:
That should be a long pin going into the rubber exhaust mount, your must have broken off.

Kc'd for the progress and dedication.

Cheers - take a look at the below diagram thats what threw me off - nothing attached the bracket on the down pipe

Reckon its 90105-12173 - a standard issue bolt?


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See the number 1 on part # 17410, to the right of that is the pin I am talking about. I still reckon that's whats missing from your car. I will have a gander under line and take a picture tomorrow.

How are the diagrams showing ? I thought Toyota didn't allow them to be shown any more.

slipsliderg wrote:
See the number 1 on part # 17410, to the right of that is the pin I am talking about. I still reckon that's whats missing from your car. I will have a gander under line and take a picture tomorrow.

Fair play thanks Ray, looks like its apart of the assembly or am I looking at it wrong?

Looks like I * can * slide a bolt through but the other side has a piece of rubber at other end so throwing me off abit, they are definitely joined in some way, pics etc would help

Cheers, gent as always

Marty J wrote:
How are the diagrams showing ? I thought Toyota didn't allow them to be shown any more.

Haha top of the class lad well spotted , they banned them before so when they were back a few year ago I scraped the site and grabbed everything for my car

Can zip the lot and upload them to "the cloud" if it helps a few of ye

eringobragh wrote:
Marty J wrote:
How are the diagrams showing ? I thought Toyota didn't allow them to be shown any more.

Haha top of the class lad well spotted , they banned them before so when they were back a few year ago I scraped the site and grabbed everything for my car

Can zip the lot and upload them to "the cloud" if it helps a few of ye

You have a pm.

Marty J wrote:
eringobragh wrote:
Marty J wrote:
How are the diagrams showing ? I thought Toyota didn't allow them to be shown any more.

Haha top of the class lad well spotted , they banned them before so when they were back a few year ago I scraped the site and grabbed everything for my car

Can zip the lot and upload them to "the cloud" if it helps a few of ye

You have a pm.

You got mail - Can provide on demand here - its a 11MB zip file for a 99 rev 5 (UK) model. If Geoff wants it I'm more than happy to provide it...It should cover most MR2s id imagine ....with the exception of trim differences etc

eringobragh you're a star.

Marty J wrote:
eringobragh you're a star. ]

No hassle enjoy and be sure to archive it yourself as Ive found it a valuable resource in sourcing parts any reg posters who want a copy let me know

eringobragh wrote:
Marty J wrote:
eringobragh wrote:
Marty J wrote:
How are the diagrams showing ? I thought Toyota didn't allow them to be shown any more.

Haha top of the class lad well spotted , they banned them before so when they were back a few year ago I scraped the site and grabbed everything for my car

Can zip the lot and upload them to "the cloud" if it helps a few of ye

You have a pm.

You got mail - Can provide on demand here - its a 11MB zip file for a 99 rev 5 (UK) model. If Geoff wants it I'm more than happy to provide it...It should cover most MR2s id imagine ....with the exception of trim differences etc

Thanks mate, I'll pm you my email address and can upload it here. The more copies around the less chance we'll lose it!

Quandry wrote:
eringobragh wrote:
Marty J wrote:
eringobragh wrote:
Marty J wrote:
How are the diagrams showing ? I thought Toyota didn't allow them to be shown any more.

Haha top of the class lad well spotted , they banned them before so when they were back a few year ago I scraped the site and grabbed everything for my car

Can zip the lot and upload them to "the cloud" if it helps a few of ye

You have a pm.

You got mail - Can provide on demand here - its a 11MB zip file for a 99 rev 5 (UK) model. If Geoff wants it I'm more than happy to provide it...It should cover most MR2s id imagine ....with the exception of trim differences etc

Thanks mate, I'll pm you my email address and can upload it here. The more copies around the less chance we'll lose it!

Pmed you - you should nearly be able to upload them here with a bit of work as they are all in web format