Project Revivial

[CamryLover96]

Hello

Well Let me start by introducing the car Im trying to bring back to life it is a 1996 Camry DX its been in my family for about 15 years and it finially has been givin to me well ill show you all some pictures of it and ask what is the best thing I should do with my car because I want to rescue it this car has went through rough times it has a Max of 338k miles so yea not so good in that area but i dont want to give it to the dogs yet so please give me some helpful tips on how to bring it back to life

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It still runs but it smokes under the hood because of unknown oil leak that we cant find just yet but im saving up money on fixing her

[Mister_Perkins]

Smokes under the hood? .. my guess would be Oil leaking from the Valve Cover, Oil Pump, or Oil Pan Gasket. More than likely the Oil pan gasket or VC to the exhaust.

That camry looks in really good shape, I wouldn't scrap it even if the motor blew up!

If the motor blows up, seriously.... Just get another motor, or sell it with a blown motor on Toyota Nation. I bought my 95 (in sig pic) For $800.00 with a blown motor

[CamryLover96]

Thanks man Seems like your the only one to help

[Mister_Perkins]

dude, you just posted this up 14 minutes ago. lol

[CamryLover96]

Yea but you would be surprised on how many people ive asked for help

[Mister_Perkins]

Well what you should do is Scrub the motor down with Degreaser and rags. Once clean, look for where the oil is coming. This is going to take a very long time, but its worth it. Instead of changing ever Gasket on the motor, you can just replace whats needed

[Chris Crash]

A new engine would be a start....

[CamryLover96]

Degreaser I can do
And as for the new motor ill come to that when I get the small things fixed

[LynchburgCSI]

Hampton eh? Pretty close to me. Welcome to the forums! I agree on a new engine if your serious about keeping her. Or maybe a re-build.

[Mister_Perkins]

Originally Posted by CamryLover96

Degreaser I can do
And as for the new motor ill come to that when I get the small things fixed

you should sell your Camry to Ken if you decide to sell it

since you guys are pretty close to each other

[LynchburgCSI]

^ 4cyl + auto. I won't touch it.

[iovaykind]

^Ken is done with his 4cyl autos haha he had a good run with one already

[fgarrido408]

i had the same problem on mine.
im not entirely sure what had to be fixed, but i know it took the shop i took it to 2 days and cost me 500$ on parts to fix it.
its a small, microscopic small sized hole that is going to require you to basically empty out your entire engine bay to replace all the hoses and a pump i believe to fix it.


sadly after i fixed it, i lent my car to my dad one day and he blew my engine and radiator and it cost me another 700$ on parts to fix my car again.

make sure that if you do just fix the problem instead of a whole engine swap to regularly check levels of all fluids and change out your spark plugs. i believe the reason my engine blew was cause of the spark plugs and when a mechanic looked at it he said it had to do partly cause of the fix i had just done.

[CamryLover96]

Im planning to take my car to the mechanic pretty soon to see whats going on im really trying to bring her back to life im bascially going to spend my whole year doing work on her because Im tired of all the Jetta Fans out here in hampton

[Mister_Perkins]

I find it hard to believe you have a whole years worth of work to do to the camry. lol

I know what your saying, just being stupid