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Yowzer's 1974 MS65 Toyota Crown


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Yeah so I have many vehicles. This is one of the ones that has been sitting in the background for quite some time. Unfortunately most of the photos I have of it are on my laptop drive, which shat itself.

 

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So this car was parked up in '92, with some horrid bumpers attached to it. Looked like this in 2010

 

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Anyway, R100 purchased it in a bidding war and decided he didn't actually want it, so Japawags purchased it off him. He also decided he didn't want it and traded it for my MS110, which I didn't seem to have much say in.

 

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So then it ended up in my garage where it sat for the next 3 odd years, the engine had been pulled out and sat under a carport with no sump or rocker cover, and was in a bit of a yuck state.

I miss driving old cars so I figured it's time to give this old beast a second shot at life. So I pulled the engine apart.

 

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Oh hey there valve, you shouldn't be open..

 

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The engine actually turned out to be in far better condition than I had thought. I was expecting the water galeries to be heavily corroded like my old under water 4M, but they were perfectly fine. No photo of that yet though. It's taking a bath

 

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Lol 2M crank?

 

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The bores are all good

 

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So yup, that's it for now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cylinder 3 has eaten an exhaust valve sometime in the past, damage ain't too bad but I'll give it a bit of a cleanup

 

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Head is coated in gunk

 

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And I pulled everything out of the block to measure up

 

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The crank has a bit of pitting unfortunately, it's minor but will still require a grind I think. Some of the bearing shells are a bit worn too.

 

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Yeap. Fun stuff.

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Ok so where was I?

 

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It was dusty but I found an engine

 

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5Ms are pretty gross but well whatever I like shit engines get over it already

 

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Kind of did some stuff and found some rust up under the front window thing

 

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I'm not a fan of rust so I pulled the rest of the front off because I'm not really sure why

 

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And then I moved away and haven't touched it for a few weeks.

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