Toyota Corolla (E120) 2002–2008 Repair Manual / Introduction / Repair instruction / Precaution / For vehicles equipped with catalytic converter
Toyota Corolla (E120): For vehicles equipped with catalytic converter
Caution
: if large amount of unburned fuel flows into the converter, it may cause overheating and a fire hazard.
To prevent this, observe the following precautions.
- Use only unleaded gasoline.
- avoid prolonged idling.
Avoid running the engine at idle speed for more than 20 minutes.
- avoid a spark jump test.
- Perform a spark jump test only when absolutely necessary. Perform this test as rapidly as possible.
- While testing, never race the engine.
- avoid a prolonged engine compression measurement.
Engine compression measurements must be performed as rapidly as possible.
- do not run the engine when the fuel tank is nearly empty. This may cause the engine to misfire and create an extra load on the converter.
Other materials:
Inspection procedure
1 Check door lock
2 Check wire harness (tvip ecu door lock)
Disconnect the tvip ecu and door lock connectors.
check the continuity between the terminals of the tvip
ecu and door lock connectors, as shown in the illustration
and table.
Standard:
3 Check wire harness ...
Inspection procedure
Hint:
the switch described in this text is a switch for transmitting signals which is
built in the door control transmitter.
1 Check wireless door lock control functions
Normal
2 Replace transmitter battery with normal one
After replacing the transmitter battery with a new or normal o ...
Inspection
1. Cooling fan relay
Inspect the cooling fan relay continuity.
Using an ohmmeter, check that there is continuity
between terminals 1 and 2.
If there is no continuity, replace the relay.
Check that there is no continuity between terminals
3 and 5.
If there is conti ...