Adex

Nah defo not slot mags, these are class.....

Possibly SSR...?

I'm pretty sure the reason is that the shaft has been assembled incorrectly. The inner race of the CV usually looks identical on both sides but they're not. On one side, the hole through which the driveshaft goes has a chamfered edge. The shaft should be assembled so that the side with the chamfer is on the inside of the CV. The chamfer is designed to help the snap ring to compress when removal is necessary. In you find yourself in a situation like you describe, I'd put money on the CV having been assembled incorrectly. As I'm sure you're aware from doing the other side, the snap ring is a pretty loose fit on the shaft. Understanding this loose fit is the key to persuading the CV off. You need to hold the shaft in a vice & try tapping the CV off again. If you have no luck, you need to slacken the vice off a little & rotate the the entire shaft in the vice grips by 5/10 degrees. Re-tighten the vice & try again. If you have no luck, loosen the vice & rotate the shaft by a few degrees again. What you're aiming to do is to get one end of the snap ring to hang into the groove to enable it to fully compress all the way round. The snap ring in this (crap) diagram is slightly exaggerated, but you get the idea. It's a bit like safe cracking! Every difficult CV I've ever come across has been removed using this method.

Here's some interesting bits & bob's on gen 4 3s-gte if anyone's interested. http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=67576 Blimey, that insanity-74 gets about, doesn't he!

Nah, just get faster broadband!

GT4 running gear in an Avensis chassis. Technically it's not a GT4 engine, it's a Gen4 3S-GTE. £260bhp standard. Prefer the later ones myself. Shame most of them are auto's.

There was a guy on here a while back who had a weird knocking sound from his 3sfe. Think it was darrens2. He traced it to his crank pulley! Turns out the rubber 'cush-drive' type layer (if you're into bikes, that term might seem familiar) in the pulley had degraded & the outer part was wobbling like a mofo!

Your car's suspension is set-up to give a slightly 'nose-down' stance from the factory. Although a 5 percent profile variance won't really have too much of an effect, it is preferable to put the taller profile ones on the back. It's the same reason you have to be careful when setting ride height on coilovers (and why you should never lower the rear without also doing the front). A 'nose-up' stance will result in some very peculiar handling! Possibly even suffering from front end lift at speed!

Think of all the fuel you'll save in the meantime! Less fuel = More mods!

Maybe try ebay.com? As far as I know, America is the the only place you'll find ones that big 'on the shelf'.

Great work guys! We need more Celica's in tuning mags! They're far too honda/subaru heavy for my liking!

Not exactly my best work, but...

Just seen the q & a's at the bottom too... Q: MY LADY AINT POON SHE NO GETTING NEAR YOUR CAR. SHE GOT GRAND DADDY'S TOASTY PLASTIC BACK SEAT DATSUN AND NO TIME TO BE LOOKIN OUT DEM WINDOWS CAUSE MAN THEY ARE FOGED UP, AMEN. HOW MUCH THAT CHERRY RIPE AGAIN? A: You're the bloke who painted the car aren't you? Brilliant, just brilliant!

Legend is an over-used word on 'tinternet, but this bloke is the very definition! "The Boot has been replaced with a rust free boot in undercoat and when you open it you wont be surprised by a naked Chinese man. This once happened to me, but that was new years eve and instead of a boot it was the toilet door of a Brisbane Night Club, but we've moved on and forgotten about that."

Much as I love 3-spokes I'd have to say they don't always look 'right' on a g6. It's quite a bulky car (when compared to something like an rx7) so some wheels can look a little too delicate for the size of the car. My ss1 is currently sitting on these, but luckily they're twin fitment (5x100 & 5x114.3) so I'll probably end up using them on my next rx!

Try some white grease (like you use on caliper slider pins), it wont dry out like wd40. (not as quickly anyway).

Get Ken to wash the 5....

Nah, it's crying cos it wishes it was a gen6...

BBQ smoke is another one I hate. Smoke & flying embers, with loads of grease. If my neighbour has another friggin barbie, just after my brother & I have just washed our cars I'll go round there & stick a skewer through him! How does that effect your soft top? Kinda glad I got a cheapie vinyl roof on the 'two now!

Edited for you mate!

I've never had to re-gass any of my car's that have had A/C. Not once, not ever. Never had any drop in ac performance either. But then I've not had any leaks either. Once a year is mental though. AC gas doesn't 'go-off', so it'll keep doing it's job if your a/c system is as leak free as it should be. From new, your car's first (re)gas will last 100,000 miles or more typically. If I needed to re-gass after a year, I'd get all my a/c pipe 'o'rings changed pronto.

Lol, how does that mean they're not a garage/company? I'm pretty sure mechanics can get up the duff too, y'know... Still, how many of these types of things do we see? 'Awesome Celica, needs new headlight bulb for MOT....." Friggin do it then, or just be honest about what really needs doing...?

I love the way it's being sold by a garage & they still can't be arsed to 'clean it up'! If it's so fugging good, hoover the damn thing & ask for more cash with tax & MOT. Someone on here wants to go & have a look at it, make sure it's not too crispy underneath......