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Emanuel Spinola
Moderator
NSW
JZZ30

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 04:25 pm, by:  Emanuel Spinola (Manny) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Roger
It would appear that TT power steer pumps are a lot more resilient and don't suffer the same wear and reliability issues as V8 pumps do only needing that top o-ring changed periodically - at least that's what I've been told by both Neil and Nial who maintain them regularly. :-)
Roger Costello
TryHard
WA
UZZ31 V8 Limited

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 04:38 pm, by:  Roger Costello (Roger) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Manny,

They would know a lot more than me, the switch is still a potential problem. Oh well, yet another good reason for TT owners to feel superior!

Roger
Emanuel Spinola
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NSW
JZZ30

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 04:43 pm, by:  Emanuel Spinola (Manny) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Roger
Very true on the idle up switch and not taking anything away from your great write up on it

If it makes you feel any better, I still insisted Neil rebuild my apparently perfectly good spare power steer pump....

Don't know about superior though, just different...
Neil Griffiths
Trader
NSW
1 x JZZ30,2 x UZZ31,1 x UZZ32,1 x UZZ Track Car,1 x AeroCabin,1 x Crown V8,1 x Celsior

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 05:26 pm, by:  Neil Griffiths (Aussiesc) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Roger,,Its in todays mail.
Roger Costello
TryHard
WA
UZZ31 V8 Limited

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 06:38 pm, by:  Roger Costello (Roger) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Neil,
Thanks, is there anything special I need to put on the thread before fitting it - sealant, teflon tape?

Manny,
I fully understand the need to rebuild a perfectly good pump "just in case"! The "brand new" inlet o ring on my V8 pump is definitely leaking under vacuum. Hence the pump groan unless the reservoir is overfilled. Either the sod's fitted a non Toyota part or the wrong o ring from the kit. At least it's easy to change, and leaks only under vacuum so no fatal fluid on the alternator.

The rest of the world,
I and certain other frustrated people while trolling the EPC noticed a plastic cover shown on 94 V8's to shield the alternator from PS fluid. Some of us even ordered the part from Japan. I have looked at the alternator on every year of V8 fro 91 to 97 and can't find one of these things fitted on any of then. It does not bolt onto anything obvious and no one I've ever met knows where it goes or how. I have had about three frustrating tries at fitting it and given up. Far more patient and capable people than me who also bought one are stumped. I am coming to the conclusion it fits into the same category as optional rear air-conditioning in a Soarer (and no I don't mean the air-purifier). A sort of joke played by the Japanese on the rest of the world. It's in the EPC but not fitted in the real world. Has anyone ever seen a black plastic drip shield on a V8 Soarer alternator? If you can post a photograph of how it is fitted I will send you a brand new one free.

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Roger
Neil Griffiths
Trader
NSW
1 x JZZ30,2 x UZZ31,1 x UZZ32,1 x UZZ Track Car,1 x AeroCabin,1 x Crown V8,1 x Celsior

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 08:47 pm, by:  Neil Griffiths (Aussiesc) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A bit a thread will never go astray..

To help with the sheild..I think from memory it goes on the Crown 1UZ and fits on the underside of it..
Andrew Vlamos
Trader
Queensland
SC400

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 09:07 pm, by:  Andrew Vlamos (Vlam) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Roger, for what its worth the PS on my fist 91 was noisy and groaned...tried to get rid of it and rebuilt the pump, that didn't work....purchased a brand new pump got a specialist to fit it, still had the same problem after spending 2 grand.
I took the car to Lexus and they told me that it is REALLY important that following a rebuild or fitting new pump the belts always should be removed and the pump must be hand primed and rested prior to fitting the belts and starting because in a split second if the pumps are starved for oil they damage some gizmo internally and will then groan..as mine did.
Ray Crawford
Tinkerer
NSW
GT Limited V8 UZZ31

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 09:13 pm, by:  Ray Crawford (Ray) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here is an article I found on Toyota/Lexus power steering by Cardone
http://www.cardone.com/english/club/products/steering/protech/tech_bulletins/PT%2021-0001.pdf
Cliff Newton
Newbie
W.A.
TT

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 10:51 pm, by:  Cliff Newton (Tiger_x) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So, does anyone know the part n.o. for the o-ring seal at the top of the pump?
Neil Griffiths
Trader
NSW
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Friday, September 09, 2005 - 09:33 am, by:  Neil Griffiths (Aussiesc) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

V8 5/91 - 2/95 90301-12003

V8 2/95-12/00 AND TT 90301-11016}
Cliff Newton
Tinkerer
W.A.
TT

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Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 12:32 pm, by:  Cliff Newton (Tiger_x) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Cheers Neil!
Cliff Newton
Tinkerer
W.A.
TT

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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 09:56 pm, by:  Cliff Newton (Tiger_x) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Part n.o. 90301-11016 for the O-ring on the TT power steering pump can be purchased locally in Perth from Galleria Toyota for all those TT owners in Perth needing O-rings for there pumps. Cost is about $3.75
Phil Gibson
Tinkerer
WA
'94 black/black UZZ31

Posts: 38
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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 11:42 pm, by:  Phil Gibson (Sciflyer) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just got from the local Toyota dealer the V8 power steering pump seal kit

part # TO-0444624012
cost $37

Cliff it turns out i probably didnt need to do it anyway, the guy i took the dead alternator to knows all about the dripping fluid issue but when he looked at the alternator he said it was clean (as it should be with only 12000km!) and it looks like some idiot whacked a jump starter the wrong way across the battery terminals while it was on the wharf that blew the alternator up!

Anyway $100 later and i have a working alternator plus the reconditioned power steering pump.

Just gotta hope now they havnt blown anything else up...
Roger Costello
TryHard
WA
UZZ31 V8 Limited

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 12:08 am, by:  Roger Costello (Roger) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Phil

Don't lose any sleep over it. The alternator was deliberately designed to sacrificially save the rest of the electronics in the event of a reverse polarity battery connection. Usually everything else with the occasional exception of a fusible link and fuse or two survives the drama. Which is a good thing given there is an awful lot of electronic everything else to replace. Can't hurt to do a PS rebuild on the V8's, with the exception of the Actives they nearly all leak eventually. TT owners can feel smug at this point.

Roger
Phil Gibson
Tinkerer
WA
'94 black/black UZZ31

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 12:37 am, by:  Phil Gibson (Sciflyer) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

phew thanks Roger thats a bit of a relief :-)
Peter Nitschke
Junk Filterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 12:46 am, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So why don't we find someone that can make a simple and easy to fit alternator cover? Surely it can't be that hard for someone with the right tools and skills?
Phil Gibson
Tinkerer
WA
'94 black/black UZZ31

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 12:54 am, by:  Phil Gibson (Sciflyer) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Im going to try to make up a cover out of a section of a large tin when i put the alternator and PS pump back on this week.

If i have any joy i'll post up some piccies
Peter Nitschke
Junk Filterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 01:05 am, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If it's any good, any chance of making a spare one for my car? :-)
Graham Dollisson
TryHard
QLD
GT-TL

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 09:36 am, by:  Graham Dollisson (Alloyvee) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I feel so smug at this point!!
Steve Patterson
TryHard
NSW
2x V8 LTD's

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 09:58 am, by:  Steve Patterson (Violent_rumble) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hehehe it's time to grab that empty Milo tin.
Patrick Mccreanor
Tinkerer
Western Australia
v8

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Wednesday, September 06, 2017 - 10:50 pm, by:  Patrick Mccreanor (Daddyg) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I came across link this while looking for a solution for a fix on my GT UZZ30 that has the flutter and when warm goes to safe mode ,its been a real piss off messing with mafs ,IACs idle sensor ECU fuel pump , anyway I came up with a design years ago when the leaking power steering destroyed the alternator ,I had the pump kit put in and replaced alternator and made this it is wedged in the and held in place by wire tie , I sent my Brother a dozen BJ McC ,text him on 0407246811 he has been soaring for 20- years you might be in luck or make your own
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