6G Celicas Forums

I bet you are...It's awesome my friend, you must be blessed with much much patience...and craftmanship!

Well done indeed!

Hilarious - never heard that one before lol

You Do Super Cool Work Sir!

Hi GTMike

Did you decide what you are going to go with...my wheels are also black with a chrome insert around the innerside of the rim so if you have a picture or two Id appreciate a peek...?

Met a long lost nephew at a christening yesterday and hes going to get me some like youirs... they are exactly what I want!

Oh right, I wasnt aware of that when I picked them up...never mind maybe someone will have a Camry who can use them.

Would be great if you did my friend, I cant find any anywhere.

This is a picture of one of my wheels...sorry about the grubby appearance, I've been concentrating on gettingf her shipshape before I clean her up properly



I had a read of your progress post - Brilliant - I wish Id have done something similar now, although I have done hardly anything so far, so still have the opportunity to create a progress post.

Thanks again both!

Brilliant read, Ive been glued to this all evening. WOW, how much do you love your car - well done!

Love the black wheels so much...but, not the green ones lol. Fantastic job!!

Finally sorted my roof, thanks to advice I got on this forum. - THANK YOU KINDLY FRIENDS!! - I then went and purchased some wheel centre caps because the rather large castle nut type thing that pokes out looks (to me anyway) a little ugly.

Anyway, as it turns out, they are for a 6th Gen Celica but evidently not for mine. I thought the wheels on my car were standard celica wheels but these caps do not even come close to fitting...I will have to investigate further!

So, if there is anyone that wants them (they're in fair condition and the ebayer I bought them from said they were "very good") just give me a shout and they are on their way for whatever the postage costs, probably 2 - 3 pounds)

I also now have two sunroof motors, which are refurbished (I just replaced the famous broken pins with stainless steel ones - works perfectly), I cannot envision me ever needing to replace them so same again, if you are a registered user on here and have been for over a month just give me a shout and they are yours for whatever it costs to post them to you.

What a brilliant site, populated with lovely helpful people. I now know more about the little car I am going to spend the rest of my motoring days with than I ever thought it possible to know.



I will pop in as often as my daily grind allows so just ping me if you want them... and a big THANK YOU to the people who run this site
Mark

I wonder if I can get someone who may have carried out this fix on the power hood to look at the below images and give an opinion on (in my case) exactly what job the pin does. I notice that my central shaft protrudes out from the centre of the gear wheel further than it does on MaskedMan's but I am not sure if that is an action that happend when voltage is put through the motor or not.

Also, there appears to be a kind of collar around the central shaft of MaskedMan's which is not on mine.

I dont know either if the pin is supposed to be the same length as the diameter of the central shaft or if it's supposed to protrude out of each side by a certain length ...any help or advice here would be greatly appreciated because after struggling to get the pin out which was broken in the hole, I am just not sure what its function is, perhaps if I could understand that I could approach the problem better but I am pretty well stumped at the moment.

These are the images I have taken:

This is an image of what the gear end of MaskedMan's motor looked like...



This is an image of what the gear end of My motor looks like...



This is an image of my motor placed near the scrteen showing a comparison and the differet appearance of the two



thanking you in advance,
Mark

QUOTE (presure2 @ Jul 23, 2011 - 7:40 AM) *
take your time, plan your work, then work your plan, and you can and will have a celica that rivals even the best examples on this site.

Brilliant!

Cheela...!

How right you are my friend, a few months ago I aquired this by part exchange. I didnt want it, had no interest in it at all in fact. So, I just "chucked" it on ebay and was going to give it away. But, a strange thing happened, every morning when I went out to get into my car or van, I kept noticing it and the more I noticed it the more, and more, and more, and more I kind of liked it.

In the meantime, my fellow ebayers start messaging me, and I'm thinking to myself, wow...this is a popular car. So I was going to wait for the right message to come through and if someone who really wanted it as their car and was going to convince me they would keep it long term, I was just going to tell them to come and collect the keys no charge - thats how much I have grown to like it.
But, as the mornings went on, I just couldnt get over just how stunning a car this really looks, and after 1010 views 142 watchers and 22 offers I decided to say no! I've worked all my life to give to those that have come behind me and this is the very first material thing that I have ever actually liked and wanted - I am keeping it for myself!! My car history would make a petrol head's eyes water with envy but the only car I actually want to start driving now is this years old Celica, I absolutely swoon at her looks.

I'm not sure how well this is going to work - and if you knew me youd get a hard hat on and expect a train wreck - but I just found a years old photobucket account and have managed to upload some pics of my Celica, please excuse any errors or general messiness and I will clean everything up when I have gained a little more knowledge on both photobucket and the forum here...

http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Markup07...u6lza8.jpg.html
http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Markup07...rt=3&page=1

Sorry... try as I might, it is becoming clear that I am as good a photobucketer as I am a car mechanic, I just tried these links in another browser and they showed some images of my car outside but I will have to now find a tutorial on how to actually make the images appear on the page... do my best, but I hope you like my car...I've had them all, from the very best to the absolute pits - and Ive never owned a car as pretty as this!!

Cooooool, Ill get the pictures up in the next 10 minutes or so... I am sure I have an old photobucket account that I will find the login details for.

Incidentally, I just drove 65 miles to get the pin extraction tool I was so looking forward to, and what was it...a ball joint extractor! I have to laugh or I will end up calling my friend some names ha ha.

I have taken this beautiful car out a couple of times now but not with the roof down so I am dying to get this job done and out of the way so that I can drop the roof and give her a well needed clean and a long run out...

Pics are coming in the next 15 minutes to half hour, please excuse the mess around the car, my kids really do think they can dump whatever they like in the way of spent cars and dad will clean up the mess ha

Thank you for the welcome all...what a find this forum is!!

I am not sure that my posts are getting through just yet because I answered richee3's post earlier and as yet it has not appeared. I also thanked MaskedMan for his post on a slight issue I have with my power hood and that has not appeared either. But, in the forum rules it does say that the first few posts are slow to appear owing to moderation so I'm sure they will turn up soon.

I'm just off out to a friends to get a tool that I am assured will remove the pin from the central spindle on my power roof motor and I have to rush because they will be looking forward to bed by now I am sure...but when I get back I will post the pics and even in her dirty state (just for now) I will be happy to because I just cant get over how much more I love this car every time I look at her.

Again, thank you for the welcome,
Mark

Fantastic to have found this site!

Since reading your generous post here earlier on today I got myself tooled up then went out and attacked the job. I managed to remove the motor (passenger side) and sure enough, there was about 4mm worth of pin lodge within the grease surrounding the main shaft.
Try as I might, I just cannot drive what remains of the pin through the shaft - its as though its a part of the shaft itself - and in the process of trying I have somehow lost the caste type washer that was on the shaft. I think this is to hold the cog on but I tried to slide that along too and its pretty much stuck to the shaft, although before I attempt a reassembley after the fix I will make sure I replace it (the washer).

I just caught our local diy store and bought 5 3/32 drill bits (because thats how confident I am in my general ability :-)) so I will try again, after some food, to drive the stubbornly stuck pin through the shaft.

If I am right in my thinking (that this pin is just in situ to prevent the cog from sliding toward the motor itself, thus disengaging the drive action) would it not be feasible for me to knock a new section of pin into both existing holes on either side of the central spine, as long as they were tight fitting...or am I missing the whole point of why the pin is there at all.

Thanks for putting this here my friend...

Mark

Thank you for the welcome and good advice richee3 friend.

I cant believe it!?... within 4 or 5 clicks of being directed to your site by a user on Toyotacelicas.com, I found the post by MaskedMan and his detailed description on a possible fix for an issue with the power roof on my celica. I'm just getting some tools together now to head over to where it is to see if I can carry out the fix.

Great site...absolutely jam packed with tons and tons of reading, hopefully as time goes on I will be able to add something of use to other users too.

Thanks again for the welcome,
Mark

Hi there friends!

My name is Mark, I live in Birmingham in the UK. Not too long ago, I advertised my car on ebay and a real friendly guy who I started chatting with pointed me in the direction of some Celica websites because I was secretly hoping, behind my wife's intentions, that the car would not sell & that I could keep it. In the short time between taking it in part exchange and advertising it for sale, I fell in love with it...so here I am.

It is a silver 1999 Celica Convertible.

I intend to keep the car long term now (as in forever) and almost every time I look at it, I am again amazed at the way this car has managed to stay so completely under the radar of car enthusiasts, when everything about it is just about as good and as functional as can be got from a 15 / 16 year old car - I love it.

I do have a couple of questions that I am hoping to get some help or advice on in time to come, but for now I just want to say Hi to everyone here and to thank you for allowing me to come along and join you all.
Kind regards,
Mark