3rd & 4th Generation (1992–1996 & 1997–2001)Toyota Camry Discussion for years: 1992-1996 & 1997-2001
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Got these in the pick-n-pull, while looking for something else, of course.
Saw this clean set of 98' ES300, grey leather seats: Power/heated, driver and passenger, power lumbar, 2 setting memory positions, ohh so soft leather. I couldn't let them go to the crusher. Pulled them, and I'm going to put them into my BS300 Camry, whether I really need them or not, for $40, I had to have them.
Now I have 2 sets of grey leather seats for the car, this one and the set I restored. I really am getting a bit nutty about this.
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93' LE V-6, Leather Interior, Remote Locking, Avalon Interior Lighting, Depo Clears with HID projectors, 2001 JBL Sound, Whiteline RSB, Front Strut Brace, Twin piston front calipers, ES300 rear discs.
Got these in the pick-n-pull, while looking for something else, of course.
Saw this clean set of 98' ES300, grey leather seats: Power/heated, driver and passenger, power lumbar, 2 setting memory positions, ohh so soft leather. I couldn't let them go to the crusher. Pulled them, and I'm going to put them into my BS300 Camry, whether I really need them or not, for $40, I had to have them.
Now I have 2 sets of grey leather seats for the car, this one and the set I restored. I really am getting a bit nutty about this.
Got these in the pick-n-pull, while looking for something else, of course.
Saw this clean set of 98' ES300, grey leather seats: Power/heated, driver and passenger, power lumbar, 2 setting memory positions, ohh so soft leather. I couldn't let them go to the crusher. Pulled them, and I'm going to put them into my BS300 Camry, whether I really need them or not, for $40, I had to have them.
Now I have 2 sets of grey leather seats for the car, this one and the set I restored. I really am getting a bit nutty about this.
Don't worry! I would have bought them as well considering the price! They look great! I paid something like $170 for a pair for my 1992 Camry XLE. So, consider yourself very lucky.
Need them or not, you can recover your $40 and make a handy profit should you decide to sell them.
Hehe... Well first, I unbolt and unplug my Gen3 Leather seats, then I take those same bolts, and put them in, along with the mounting hiding plastic pieces for the 98' ES300, and pop them on over the mounting points. (Oh ya, the Gen3/4, Camry and the Gen3/4 Lexus ES300, have a few things in common)
Now, since I already have the Camry wired to run the (rare) heated Camry, seats, I will have to hardwire the Lexus, Hi/Lo, settings to the Lexus hi/low switches in my console, (fused by a seat heater fuse in the fuse panel) and do a bit of wiring to accomodate the power lumbar switch.
But this is pretty minor stuff, to figure out. Basically the power seat is always supplied with power to run to seat adjustments. (12V or zero). The memory stuff is in the seat.
The only real bummer is that I spent the last year looking for a set of Camry leather seats (with heaters), restored them to 98% mint, and now they are going into storage, or some kind of lame sale.
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93' LE V-6, Leather Interior, Remote Locking, Avalon Interior Lighting, Depo Clears with HID projectors, 2001 JBL Sound, Whiteline RSB, Front Strut Brace, Twin piston front calipers, ES300 rear discs.
Hehe... Well first, I unbolt and unplug my Gen3 Leather seats, then I take those same bolts, and put them in, along with the mounting hiding plastic pieces for the 98' ES300, and pop them on over the mounting points. (Oh ya, the Gen3/4, Camry and the Gen3/4 Lexus ES300, have a few things in common)
Now, since I already have the Camry wired to run the (rare) heated Camry, seats, I will have to hardwire the Lexus, Hi/Lo, settings to the Lexus hi/low switches in my console, (fused by a seat heater fuse in the fuse panel) and do a bit of wiring to accomodate the power lumbar switch.
But this is pretty minor stuff, to figure out. Basically the power seat is always supplied with power to run to seat adjustments. (12V or zero). The memory stuff is in the seat.
The only real bummer is that I spent the last year looking for a set of Camry leather seats (with heaters), restored them to 98% mint, and now they are going into storage, or some kind of lame sale.
lucky you!
my camry doesnt even have leather seats let alone heated or power seats... i guess i can't fit those kind on mine anyways
Got these in the pick-n-pull, while looking for something else, of course.
Saw this clean set of 98' ES300, grey leather seats: Power/heated, driver and passenger, power lumbar, 2 setting memory positions, ohh so soft leather. I couldn't let them go to the crusher. Pulled them, and I'm going to put them into my BS300 Camry, whether I really need them or not, for $40, I had to have them.
Now I have 2 sets of grey leather seats for the car, this one and the set I restored. I really am getting a bit nutty about this.
Nice find! I saw the car you pulled those from today, surprised you didn't grab the steering wheel it was in nice shape and would match your car. Don't you need the connector that plugs into the seat? The power memory seat on that Lexus has a computer in it, and will only work when certain conditions are met like car on park, foot off of the brake etc. Meaning, you will have to wire things up to satisfy the computer.
I have a set of seats I got out of an Avalon, I think the wiring is the same but don't take this as gospel by any means.
White/blue – POSITIVE always on
Brown/red - POSITIVE ON or START
Red/blue - POSITIVE ACC or ON
White/black – Ground
White/red – POSITIVE always on
Green/white – Brake switch
Brown – Ground
Red/yellow – seat heater (two wires)
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Nice find! I saw the car you pulled those from today, surprised you didn't grab the steering wheel it was in nice shape and would match your car. Don't you need the connector that plugs into the seat? The power memory seat on that Lexus has a computer in it, and will only work when certain conditions are met like car on park, foot off of the brake etc. Meaning, you will have to wire things up to satisfy the computer.
I have a set of seats I got out of an Avalon, I think the wiring is the same but don't take this as gospel by any means.
White/blue – POSITIVE always on
Brown/red - POSITIVE ON or START
Red/blue - POSITIVE ACC or ON
White/black – Ground
White/red – POSITIVE always on
Green/white – Brake switch
Brown – Ground
Red/yellow – seat heater (two wires)
Actually, I grabbed the passenger side wriring harness, but forgot to grab the drivers side one. It was a bit of a end of day rush job. Just noticed that the wiring harness is significantly different from the Camry heated/power seat a couple days ago. They really are in beautiful condition, and I'd like them to be fully functional. I'll probably drop by tommorrow, hoping they haven't crushed it yet.
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93' LE V-6, Leather Interior, Remote Locking, Avalon Interior Lighting, Depo Clears with HID projectors, 2001 JBL Sound, Whiteline RSB, Front Strut Brace, Twin piston front calipers, ES300 rear discs.
Think I might also put this in over my Christmas break:
It's been itching me for quite awhile, since Whiteline (or my supplier), shipped the wrong one about 8 months ago now and finally got me the right one today.
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93' LE V-6, Leather Interior, Remote Locking, Avalon Interior Lighting, Depo Clears with HID projectors, 2001 JBL Sound, Whiteline RSB, Front Strut Brace, Twin piston front calipers, ES300 rear discs.
Did a couple aesthetic mods today. I painted the grille on the Gen 4 camry black, also ghosted the rear badges. Meaning, I painted the words TOYOTA & CAMRY in black along with the main Toyota logo, and then I am still in the process of removing the V6 & LE badges to clean up the rear.
Also did more work on the foggy headlights and realigned one of the corners that was crooked as hell. Check out some pictures!
in the process
Badges before. Yucky gold
After (like i said, still in the process of removing the LE & the V6 badges removed but it was getting dark, so i called it quits for the night)
headlights are looking a lot better the more and more I work with them.
Did a couple aesthetic mods today. I painted the grille on the Gen 4 camry black, also ghosted the rear badges. Meaning, I painted the words TOYOTA & CAMRY in black along with the main Toyota logo, and then I am still in the process of removing the V6 & LE badges to clean up the rear.
Also did more work on the foggy headlights and realigned one of the corners that was crooked as hell. Check out some pictures!
in the process
Badges before. Yucky gold
After (like i said, still in the process of removing the LE & the V6 badges removed but it was getting dark, so i called it quits for the night)
headlights are looking a lot better the more and more I work with them.
Cheers!
nice!
i have the same color as yours but mine is a 4-banger. i blacked out the grille and the badges too, along with my taillight. the car looks A LOT better after blacking those parts out. btw what are you using to clean up your headlight? the 3M kit?
Timing Belt, Water Pump, All frontal Engine Seals, Thermostat etc.
Friday morning all dressed up with coat and tie to receive an award at work and had food items to share with those at the office and proceeded to start my 1992 Camry XLE (Everything works!) with 417,954 miles on it and boom, it seemed like it wanted to start but, died milli-seconds afterwards. I tried again and it sounded horrible so, I allowed it to die and did not insist by jamming the gasoline peddle. As far as I can recall the Timing Belt has over 124,654 miles on it
Well, it sat under the oak tree and out on the road for two days and two nights and I finally got it towed to my mechanic's house (a good family friend) and I proceeded to disassemble the Engine components to access the belt and I was shocked to see the belt stretched and without tension! The Belt itself looked good and the Tensioner still seemed to work okay, however, not taking any chances I am replacing:
1. Timing Belt.
2. Tensioner & Tensioner pully.
3. All Front Engine Seals.
4. Water Pump.
5. Thermostat.
6. Engine Belts.
7. Engine Spark Plugs.
Here is a few pictures of the action from Monday and I am in the process of now installing all new parts.
Timing Belt, Water Pump, Fuel Pump, Tensioner and Tensoner Pully
After two grueling days, I finally have my 1992 Toyota Camry XLE back on the Road again! The thing did not want to start even after new Timing Belt and at the time we did not realize that we had the Timing 180 degrees off but, we did check the Fuel Pump at the Fuel Filter and nothing was coming out and yes, of course we checked all fuses, especially the AM2 30-AMP fuse.
We had to go back to the Auto Parts shop and got my hands on a brand new OEM Fuel pump and Fuel Pump Filter Liner bag. I can tell you we worked hard and fast as we needed to tare up the Engine to fix the 180 Degree Off Timing issue and it was team work, my mechanic Family Friend, his brother and I.
We just had to take the Engine Belts off, again, and remove the Dog Bone Bracket and of course the Timing Cover and release the tension of the Timing Belt Tension-er and remove the Timing Belt off the Cam Shaft Sprocket and set the timing correctly and bingo! We used women's nail Paint "White" to mark the Crankshaft pulley and making sure the Distributor was pointing to Number #1 Cylinder, along with Cylinder #1 at Top Dead Center on Compression Stroke.
Here a few pictures of the hard labor!
The Water Pump was a pain in the Ashe because of the rather small screw with Phillips head at the upper Right hand corner! If you try to loosen it, most likely the Head insert will strip and the manner in which we got it out was using a small chisel and hitting the head of the screw in an angle towards the un-tighten direction! Behold, it worked and the light taps made the screw come out!
After Cleaning the mating Surfaces....
Now that we are at it, replacing the Thermostat was a very good idea!
Crankshaft Seal replacement was also performed:
New Timing Belt!
New Fuel Pump!
Over 20 years and over 417,000 miles this old Fuel Pump lasted!!!
New Fuel Pump with Filter Element Bag!
I can attest that the 1992 Camry XLE is running SUPER SMOOTH and nice and Quiet!!!
Last edited by guapoman2000; 12-19-2012 at 02:10 AM.
Routed out my electrical problem, it was a bad ground. Theres two rings that make up the clamp for the negative terminal, and they separated. Clamped em back together with some pliers, and bam! She started right up. Oh and I changed the transmission fluid, that stuff was dirtier than my engine oil, like pitch black! And ripped my pants in the process of climbing under the car :P
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Well first, I unbolt and unplug my Gen3 Leather seats, then I take those same bolts, and put them in, along with the mounting hiding plastic pieces for the 98' ES300, and pop them on over the mounting points. (Oh ya, the Gen3/4, Camry and the Gen3/4 Lexus ES300, have a few things in common)
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