Rob

Good news. Care to post up the costs?

AHA, nope, it will have been a blowtorch to heat up the pulley nut. I posted about this a while ago. The heat knackers the rubber damper, causing it to eventually shear off. My garage warned me I might need a new pulley at £180 ish, but later told me it was fine. It came off later of course, as posted above. I paid for a new pulley, but sucessfully argued not to pay the labour, as they shouldn't have advised me it was OK at the time. The manager said he would advise Toyota of the risk of using the blowtorch technique. The pessimist in me says its only a matter of time before someone has an accident. I managed to control mine, but to suddenly lose PS as you enter a roundabout is quite dodgy.

Mine separated as I entered a roundabout, that was a thrilling moment I can tell you. Have you had the belt, or cambelt changed in the last few months?

If the power steering oil is all brown and mucky, you might want to change it. I did it last week, using an old shower hose, which seemed to leak at every link, spilling oil all over my drive and garage door. Get a proper hose, and disconnect the hose that goes onto the PS tank and put that into the "drain" hose. Start engine, and top up with clean fluid until the stuff coming out the end of the hose is clean. You might need two litres. Cover everything you can with towels sheets etc.

I've always used moly grease, dark grey stuff, with no undue effects. Someone more knowledgeable may be along shortly. Check your little rubber bootees as well, cos they always start to split.

Further Hijack. Is the stock fan really "viscous"? When I took mine off, I was having a good look, and it has a spiral wrapped metal band that grips the shaft. It seemed to me that if it heated up it would expand and grip the shaft tightly, thus spinning the fan faster. Couldn't see any other mechanism that that.

Sorry, read posts properly this time, if you can hear it outside, see my post above

Are you sure its not outside the cockpit? Get someone to try it while you stand outside. If so, you can reach under the car from passenger side and find a rubber boot where the clutch actuation lever enters the box. This boot has a rectangular hole in the end where you can spray some grease in. Mine does it all the time.

UK dealer will sell you a Jap Spec cam belt, probably the same, but they will need your model code from the vin plate.

White with a huge Jap flag rising sun, radiating across the whole car. Thats pretty rice.

Ahh, you mean they've never worked. I bet they are missing, my main beam light bulb was when I first got the car. What we need right now is someone helpful with a parts CD so you can order them in, although whip the speedo out first and check. Take dash off as usual and the speedo is held in by four screws, deep down in the dash void, so you are bound to drop them. I always do.

Best I can do is to suggest you look at TRL performances website, I'm sure Pete has a step by step guide to installing this brakelight.

There are quite a few bulbs that slot into the back of the dial case. Surely they can't all have blown at once? Do the indicator/beam lights come on? Do the gauges actually work? What I'm getting at is...is there a power "outage" to the speedo/rpm dial block? The back of the speedo/rpm case has a printed circuit that powers everything on it, it has three connectors along its top, back edge. edit to re-spell "gauges"

Power to the radio is ignition switched. I'm sure that nice Matt H will be along soon, he's very nice.

Tis done, I used a alu box section over the 24mm spanner, and a breaker bar on the 22mm socket, and snapped the two undone. The PS still feels a bit bumpy/lumpy though. The new fluid was pink/reddish, but has now gone brown, do I need to flush it all out again, and how much should the system take, as I only put 3/4 litre in.

Thanks guys. Time to buy some new tools. :)

The nut on the inside is RH thread, but I cant release the banjo from that nut.

I'm trying to swap my PS Pump, but I can't remove the big brass coloured banjo, without the darker coloured nut turning as well. I can get a 22mm socket on the banjo nut, with a breaker bar, but the metal retainer has bent. There is little room for a spanner on the other nut (24mm i think). Am I doing something wrong, is it a reverse thread or summat?

Despite my sarky answer, I would be very interested. Your total costs would be good info as well, if you're OK posting them, or PM ing them.

I'm afraid not. Bet you don't brake so hard from now on. Anyway ABS is for girls.

Do you have this thing ere...

Does that mean you have traction control as well?

If you have ABS, you should have a big lump of metal near the brake cylinder with lots of brake pipes going in and out. If you've just got the cylinder, reservoir and servo, then you're on your own in the emergency brake.

Possibly the safest way to find out you don't have ABS there, much safer then the way I found out anyway. Not to sure about the SZ-R, but my SZ doesn't have ABS, and only has the one EFI fuse. A bit like this...

Odd. People are very hard on Peter Sutcliffe, but lets be honest, I bet we've all bludgeoned a prossie to death at some time in our lives. Why, it was just last week when I was just about to ....