Help, my camry is acting funny

[deltree]

I did a tune up today on my 93 camry and replaced sparkplugs, cap, rotor. Everything is fine in the morning until tonight when I use the car again and it die twice in the middle of the road. I have to stop and restart.
Now every once in a while the rpm middle would just go all the way to 0 and then bounce back up to where it was. It kinda scary.
Can anyone please help.

Also when I press the gas and let go real quick, the engine light comes on. Never happen before.

I also notice that the engine also heated up to 3/4 of the way when before the tune-up it's always 1/2 way.

[userlain]

did you the tune up by the chiltons manual?

[Nico]

I know this is a stupid question but are you sure to have placed the rotor correctly ? Seems like a bad electrical connection. As for your overheating problems I really don't understand the link between those two problems

[userlain]

are you sure that you gapped the spark plugs correctly? if you buy a chiltons repair/maintenance manual, it will say what the gap has to be.

[ryuji16]

a mechanic didnt install the rotor correctly on my 3vz once... it caught fire, and i had to douse it with a fire extinguisher i borrowed from a nearby furniture shop. i was damn lucky he was there too.

be careful

[deltree]

I put the cap on correct, checked it like 10 times. I was really carefull about that.

I managed to get it running fine for a bit this morning, however it die in the middle of the road. The AAA guy managed to restart it a few times and then it just go dead.

Now the whole thing just won't start. It will crank up to almost start and then die again. I even swap out the battery since my old one die while trying to start it too many times.

[userlain]

timing off?

[2wickedtoyz]

those (car rotor plugs) are the only things you changed?
do you still have the old cap & rotor? and are the wires all pluged in securely?< i don't think i spelled that right*
try to use the old cap & rotor see if there is a difference they may have given you defective merchandise...

[userlain]

chiltons manual...

[deltree]

I gave up and towed to a shop. They said that the main relay is missing and the EFI fuse get really hot. Hmmm, I have to wait till monday morning to see what they are talking about.

[2wickedtoyz]

that makes no sense at all your car was running fine before the tune up, so that indicates the relay was there otherwise it wouldn't run at all.

[deltree]

Since I don't know any trustworthy shop in the san diego area, I just towed it to one near my place. I got screwed over by this shop obviously. But since I can't get it running still, i have to leave it there since if I towed it again to another place, they probably gonna screw me over again.

Hopefully they will start with the real fixing now.

[2wickedtoyz]

good luck on that then but ask for all the old parts and take a real good look to make sure they did replace it and don't fall for the b.s. that they threw it out.

[epborden]

Don't take it to brand name shops.

Take it to the good ol' family owned shops.

They do a good job. Make a friend or two

[deltree]

I think I may have figure out what is wrong with the car. Can anyone confirm.

I think the car fail to start probably because of uncompartible spark plug. When I went to the dealer and asked, they said that the 93 model actually have 2 types of plugs. I got the denso platinum plugs from autozone and they probably gave me the wrong one.

The ones that they gave me make too much sparks which is probably why it's causing the overheat as well. Since my car never overheat before.

Is there anyone here in the San diego area that can recommend a mechanic? I gonna have to take my car away since this place really sux. They managed to get the car going for like 30seconds then it die again. So now they want more money to do anaysis. Since they said when i pull it in, i wanted them to get it going and they did. Bunch of bs.