I need to make a formal spot for honda odyssey 2002 my mom gave me. i am trying to rebuild the engine after the timing belt broke. November 30, 2023 I've finished the rebuild and have driven it around 2000 miles. Earlier this week the van broke down. I believe the timing belt tentioner failed causing the engine to jump time. All the work i did to the engine may be ruined! ugh!! This van got great gasmileage 24-35mpg. Way better than my dodge truck.
1999 Toyota Corolla
Toyota corolla part 2 i guess! Currently sits at 353,xxx miles. Its like my old one but worse. The engine runs way better than my last corolla did. Stay tuned for more details about this car. It has an interesting history from getting wrecked to getting stolen and more.I bought this car from my dad. After my dodge dakota was rear ended and totaled i was without a daily driver. I jumped on a plane and headed down to florida to get this car. I had to drive from florida to my house 13 hours away. before i left i found the radiator had a lot of oil in it. I drained the oil out of the radiator and was able to get the car started and found the radiator was cracked. After replacing the battery and radiator, oil change and an attempt to get as much oil as i could out of the cooling system; i set off for home. The car made it home just fine except i burnt a lot of oil going through the mountains. A few weeks later the upper radiator hose busted, i ended up breaking a few vaccume hoses while replacing that.
April 2024 Car is my daily driver. It has over 363,xxx miles on it. A rear shock blew out, so i replaced both rear shocks. Car sucessfully made a round trip to michigan; burnt through 4 quarts of oil in the process. Its been making long trips for work just fine as long as the oil is tended to. I do need to replace a pully soon, drivers window regulator and the fuel tank leaks. I have to drive it 6 hours to do my work tomorrow.
May 2024 - I changed 1st o2 sensor, air filter, drivers window regulator. Cleaned interior, waxed paint. 367,xxx miles.
June 2024 - disabled automatic and daytime running lights. Installed shorter belt disabling the powersteering pump in hopes of getting better fuel mileage. belt tentioner broke, yay!
July 2024 - Passed 370,000 miles last week. fuel tank leak. door latch broke while on camping trip
August 2024 - replaced rear brake shoes, drums, and springs. completed 2 road trips to pittsburg and central ohio with no issues. spray painted roof flat white, fixed light scratches and waxed. both rear tires are bald. one rear tire had broken belt/s . Just noticed steering collum is loose.375,000 miles! a tree fell on the car and dented the trunk, rear quarter panel, roof, chipped the paint and broke a brake light.
September 2024 - 4 new tires $180 total. put them on myself switched to steelies for winter. A friend balanced them for free. Thanks!
2003 Dodge Dakota
My daily driver which replaces my 1998 toyota corolla. 189,XXX miles on it when it came from florida in 2021. Got into wreck with a pole tore up passenger side of truck and fixed in 2021. I bought it June 2022. Very little rust.
August 2022 - Top mpg so far is 21.5 I haven't been able to do any better.
June 2022 - 224,XXX miles Needs brake pads, blower motor, and vacume leak fixed. Otherwise doing good. 18-21 mpg so far.
July 2022 Went to replace brake pads and found out one of the pins in front passenger brake was rusted stuck and the caliper was bad. replaced front brake pads and front passenger rotar. Took a 500+ mile trip this past weekend it did fine. need to change oil and fix vacuume leak.
September 2023 Its still my daily driver. It has over 257,000 miles on it now. Since last update i have rebuilt front suspention, replaced more wheel bearings, belt pullies, general tuneup. The best mpg i have gotton so far is 21.85 mpg. Can i make it to 22mpg?? I regurally get 20.5 mpg if i don't use a lead foot.
November 2023 Truck is still going. Still haven't been able to do any better than 23mpg
January 2024! Truck got rear ended last month at 263,xxx miles. Insurance company calls it a total loss, totaled! BUT its not the end for this truck. Time to rebuild! 1999 corolla is currently my daily driver.
April 2024 Truck is still being rebuilt from getting rear ended. frame was badly bent at the rear and the bed hit and dented the cab of the truck. The rear bumper was destroyed. the impact of the crash caused my middle rear view mirror to fall off and bent the back of the drivers seat. So far we have straightened the frame. While the bed was off i painted the rear half of the frame. Also we started on fixing the body work. Soon it will get painted. The truck is getting lowered. I really need to add photos.
May 2024 lowered rear of truck 4 inches. currently lowering the front of the truck.
July 2024 - waiting on a rebuilt title from the government. Truck is almost ready to be driven now.
August 2024 - Rebuilt title is approved by government and its street legal now. I Can drive it again. Blew fuse in radio and 2 fuses for amplifier. Still needs some body work and finish painting. may notch the rear frame for more suspention travel. repaired body areas primered
September 2024 - block sanding the bed getting it ready to be repainted
1998 Toyota Corolla LE - retired 347,xxx miles.
My grandmother gave me this car after i got my drivers license. Its my daily driver. It has the 4 speed auto transmission. She bought the car back in 1999 and it had around 5,000 miles on it. When she gave it to me it had 269,000 miles. As of December 2020 it has 319,000 miles. As of August 2021 it has 331,XXX Miles. As of February 2022 it has 339,XXX miles. retired at 347,xxx miles
May 2019: Passed 287,000 miles.
July 2019: Passed 289,000 miles. Blew out the rear drivers side strut this month. I plan on replacing all 4 struts and have already bought them. I have replaced the broken strut, but still have 3 more to go.
SOMETIME 2020: I passed 300,000 miles. I forget exctually when but i have pictures of the obo i'll upload later! (I may have lost the picture after phone broke)
Dec. 2020 just replaced power steering pump. The power steering pump pully broke. A new pully costs $100+ for some reason. I ended up going to the junkyard. The coolant ran a little low a few weeks ago, but hasn't moved since. Hope I don't need to replace the headgasket.
Feb. 2021 Car is now past 320,000 miles. It currently needs a passenger wheel bearing. Blew out a tyre driving home one night and now another one is going flat often. I installed another radio into it. Now I can listen to am radio in wide band am and AM STEREO. Not sure what FM Pro is. It claims it has it but I think it has something to do with the turbo encabulator
Some time in between February and September Ive replaced both wheel bearings, new tires, aluminum wheels, lowered it ~2 inches, got it aligned and driving good. And other things i can't remember right now..
September 5 2021 sometime around 1am i crashed the car. I crashed it about 300 miles from home. Now i am trying to put it back together again. I will finish updating this page another day.
October 24 2021 Got the car together. the airbags busted smashing the windshield, seatbelts locked up and frame bent but i have managed to fix it enough to drive it for most of this week. I think i am at 334,000 miles now. I'm not ready to give up my car yet!
February 9 2022 has around 339,xxx miles on it now. Car is still giving me trouble. I've been fixing it alot and it still doesn't run right. Last month I had to have it towed home because it started spraying fuel everywhere and it almost caught on fire. Still runs bad. Seems it has okish and even compression, its getting spark, its getting fuel. Could a vacume leak be causing this, i have no idea anymore. When i get a chance i want to put a new valve cover gasket on and clean out the throttle body again and put new gaskets on the throttle body and replace the o-ring on the timing chain tensioner.
February 10 2022 Replaced valve cover gasket
March something 2022 I flipped my car on its side! I was taking a new way home from the grocery when i ended up hitting some real slick mud and slid my car off the road onto its side in a creek.I was only driving about 25-30 mph. I am not injured and the car survived pretty good too. I had to call towing company to come flip my car over and pull it out the creek. I ended up driving it home and and still driving it now. I fixed a vacume hose.
May 2022 Now it needs wheel bearings in the rear. wore one of the tires out to the metal treads. speakers started shorting out. i passed 345,000 miles last week
June 2022 Going to put the 98 corolla up for sale. Its at 347,XXX miles and I am tired of working on it. Took my wheels off and cleaned it up some. Now it looks very stock and regular.
I tried to sell it but nobody wanted it. After sitting for 6 months i got tired of looking at it and drove it to my friends junkyard. They crushed the car and that was the end. I really miss my car but it was becoming tired and unreliable. Seatbelts didn't work, windshild was busted, engine only ran on 3 cylinders and burned a quart of oil every few days. I miss my car.
1985 Toyota Corolla RWD
I need to find a wiring harness and a engine computer for a 1UZ-FE engine. Not much progress has been made so far. June 2022-the ae86 is still waiting January 2024 I am on the hunt for more parts for this car. Last year i dumped oil in the top of the engine. nothing else has been done.
April 2024 traded a scooter for a manual transmission for this car. paper work is mostly done for the title! yay!
1998 s10
Need to take a picture of it
Plan on finishing this truck come spring. Have a bit of work to do to it still. Needs brake lines, interior put back together, water pump, and what ever odds and ends. It will be a nice truck once its done. This truck is a pain in the butt.
March 2022: Almost ready to be on the road.If it would just stop being a pain in the butt, i could be driving it!
May 2022: Slowly making progress
June 2022 Its running and driving but it isn't finished yet still have to fix a few things. Stuff i've replaced so far... Starter, battery, water pump, brakelines, abs box, sparkplugs, wires, distrubuter stuff, tires, lugnuts, wheel studs, most of the interior, and maybe more. Security system has been disabled. Still not finished yet.
September 2023 I still have this turd but I want to get rid of it. It runs and drives but i don't ever drive it.
January 2024 Truck is parked in garage. I did some work on it last year. I drove it once and it ran pretty good. I just bought some new shocks for it. I won't be driving it until it gets warmer
April 2024 I just had the truck started yesterday and i drove it out of the garage. It seems be running pretty good. I need to fix some wiring under the bed, put new shocks on it and a few other things. I plan on finally driving it this year.
May 2024 currently replacing shocks but keep breaking bolts. Need to fix somewiring and then i may start driving it.
June 2024 - found more interior parts at the junk yard. The interior is nearly complete. Also have a new wiring harness for the tail lights. Shocks are not finished yet. I broke more bolts including 2 U-bolts!
august a tree fell on the truck and damaged it. more info soon when i get time
SOLD 1986 Ford F150 2x4
Sold truck April 2021. Old and rusty but dependable. I hope the new owner enjoys the truck as much as i did. Was sad watching the truck drive away. I wanted a truck, so I bought a truck. It currently has 143,000 miles. It is a Straight 6 300 and 4 speed manual transmission. I replaced the universals on the drive shaft, tyres, break bleeders, brake line, headlight switch, sparkplugs & wires, distributer cap. Needed fuel tank and a lot of stuff but ran and drive.
UPDATE September 2023! I have located my old f150. Its been sitting at a auto repair place a few miles away from my home. It hasn't been touched in over a year ;(
April 2024 Truck still sits at the auto repair place untouched.
SOLD 2004 Chrysler 300m
I bought this car to drive while I was fixing my 98' Corolla from its bucket incident. It wasn't my favorite car but was reliable. I sold it to my friend and he is still driving it. It had 171,xxx miles on it when i sold it. Nothing eventful happened with this car. I replaced the hood on it because it was Bent. I don't have any pictures of it.
September 2023! My friend is still driving this car and the car is doing fine. I think he only had to repalce the radiator and tighten transmissin cooling line. Pretty soon it will reach 200,000 miles! I need to get a picture of it.
January 2024 He hasn't reached 200k yet he is at 190,xxx miles
June 2024 The car has passed 200,000 miles! Needs new sway bar linkages and a few other things. Its still his daily driver.
september 2024 car reached 204,000miles. he says he has to add a little transmission fluid in it every few months. car is still doing good.
External Links
Here are some other websites you may find helpful.
Paulstravelpictures - How to's for basic car maintaince, home and more.
July 16,24 deleted beretta- car still exists but i doubt i will finish it. i have to much other stuff going on.
