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:
Replacement
1. Work for preventing gasoline from spilling out
2. Remove engine under cover rh
3. Drain coolant
4. Remove front wheel rh
5. Remove cylinder head cover no.2
Remove the 2 nuts, 2 clips and cylinder head cover.
6. Remove air cleaner hose no.1
loosen the 2 air cleaner hose ...
Starting the engine
1 Check that the parking brake is set.
► Vehicles without a multi-information display
2 Continuously variable transmission: Check that the shift lever is set in P.
Firmly depress the brake pedal.
Manual transmission: Check that the shift lever is set in N. Firmly depress the
clutch peda ...
Dtc check/clear
Notice:
if there is no dtc in the normal mode, check the pending
fault code using the continuous test results
function (mode 7 for sae j1979) on the obd ii scan
tool or the hand–held tester.
Hand–held tester only:
when the diagnosis system is switched from the normal
mode to the ...