Sheepers other MS75 crown coupe

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well then.

where to start? my first car was a 75 and ive always regretted selling my red one back in 09 or whenever it was. ive had approx 9 of these over the years and now currently today i own two. yep, i bought another one.

i still have the rusty one i bought a few months back and now i have this one as well.

it came with a whole bunch of paperwork which tells me that its done 144,000 miles since new and the engine asd trans was majorly overhauled 40,000miles ago. it runs quite well and drives as well, the auto is smooth and feels really nice. as with all old toyotas all the electrics work and it still has the original radio with the floor mounted seek switch. the brakes are fucked so that's being addressed right now but nothing else as yet, christ, ive only had it one day.

its got some rust around the rear arches and the boot floor is abit rusty but apart from that is legit as fuck. everything is there, and its not been fucked with to badly, hell, it still had the factory setting shims for the front brake calipers.

what to do with it? well, eventually it'll get the full treatment but for now i might just get it legal and drive it. fuck knows.

oh, and it came with a sedan which ill paint then sell. i guess ill start a seperate thread for that. if anyone wants a mint sedan hit me up.

so to recap, i have two MS75s and two MS65s. one 65 is def a parts car although its pretty good really and fuck knows about the rest of them. time will tell i suppose. 

 

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and heres a picture of Richie foaming in his dream car

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did some exploratory surgery today.

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nothing too major in there. ive started making the repair parts and should have it buttoned up tomorrow.

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did a bit more.

i decided the bottom of the B pillar needed more investigation so i cut the bottom out and cleaned it all up. then it all got a coat of two pac primer and i stitched it all back together.

 

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made a new lower quarter and stitched that in. its all epoxy primed inside.

 

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while i was waiting for the paint to dry i started removing the rust from the rear quarter. need to make a few bits and that will be fixed.

 

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i found some photos of my old crowns.

 

this car i bought out of the T&E in about 93ish. it was one of the few manual ones the were about. this isn't my first one, just out of shot to the right is my first one.

 

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this was a really good car this one, this i had for a while and i sold it to a "mate" in 1999. he destroyed it in about 3 months and as far as im aware it got crushed. i fully rebuilt a 5MGE for it that ran an early link. for some reason i left it auto? 

 

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heres some various randoms featuring a parts car and doing an engine swap. lol, turd for turd. 

 

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looking back now its amazing to think how plentiful they were and what great condition most of the ones i came across were. only two of the many i had ended up getting crushed by me. one was that green one pictured above which was pretty fucked and my first one which i crashed into a ditch when i got lost coming back from Carterton in about 97.

if i can find anymore pix of any of them ill post them up. 

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all buttoned up. the little piece at the top of the arch repair is low and im a bit fucked off about it but its low so a bit of bog and it'll be right. 

i suppose its better being low because its way harder to deal with when its high. 

 

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now ive got to fix up the sedan and get rid of it so i wont be doing much on this for a couple of months. ill be acquiring parts (like lower springs) but not much else.

stupid sedan.......

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found some more pixx of one of my old crowns.

it was on trademe in about 2006 for 3k. no one bid on it so i bought it for 2800.

it was mechanically pretty tired but the body was mint. i had it for about 3 years and in that time i did lots of upgrades to it. power steering, 5 speed box, better brake master, booster and calipers and rotors, disk brake diff, lowered it......   you get the idea. anywho this car is now silver with a vvti 1jz in it. its down country somewhere.

 

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in between doing work on the sedan ive been sorting out lowering the coupe. 

ill post up what parts ive used when i get the list properly sorted out. theres been a change or two and im not sure which bits ended up on the car.

but here it sits. dobi springs and bilstein shocks all round.

 

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Clint had these Opie racing wheels that he didnt want so i thought id give them a go. they're about as JDM as you can get for a large Japanese car.

i think they look great!

15x8 zero and 15x7 neg six with 225 50 and 215 45 respectively 

 

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i did a compression test on the motor and surprising enough it was down on 1 cylinder.

i took the head off and the head gasket was actually intact. oh well, at least i know whats inside. there was actually some carbon/deterioration of the exhaust valve and seat in number 2 which explained the drop in compression.

so, i took the head to GER to get it checked out and its soft and bent. no surprises there. a while back i bought a MS65 parts car that has an engine so i took the head off that to see if it was any better and of course its not, it is also soft and bent.

so im going to get a head re-hardened and straightened. new valve guides new valve seats and valves re-ground. im also getting about 1mm skimmed off the head to bump the compression up a bit. factory they are 8.5 to 1 which isn't exactly ground breaking. the cam chain sprocket has a series of dowel holes which are there to accommodate chain stretch and allow you to advance the cam by either 3~9 degrees or 9~15 degrees. ill stuff around with these to try and get the cam timing as best as i can. lets be honest, this is a 4M, its not exactly going to be fast. 

so when i get the head back ill chuck it all back together. with the head off it allows me to fit a whole bunch of bits i had amassed from the MS51 build like the later model water pump housing with the water feed pipe around the back of the head instead going around the front. an HPC coated inlet manifold and exhaust manifold. a later model carburetor and some other dress up bits.

and just to add more to this wall of text heres some useless information about early 4Ms. there are two types of oil feed to the cam and rockers for the early 4M motor. one feeds through a gallery inside the cam and has holes along the cam which feed the rockers.  the other type has an oil pressurised pipe that runs along the top of the cam and bolts into each cam bearing cap with a banjo bolt. the pipe has tiny holes in it above each rocker and that how they are lubricated. the holes in this pipe are small and they block easily which is the cause of most of the cam/rocker failures and rattly rockers in the early 4M.

and more useless information. the 4M gaskets set you can get from NZ gaskets/partmaster/BNT/repco etc have the wrong bore size in the headgasket. its too big and makes the already shit headgasket scenario even worse by reducing the wall thickness of the gasket where it matters most. you can get correctly sized head gaskets out of auzzie.

 

there you go, some 4M barry useless information. 

 

heres a sad picture of a dirty untidy engine bay with half a motor in it.

 

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well after two months GER finished the head. the one that came off the car was cracked between the two valves in every cylinder, as well as being soft, bent and fucked. so we used the one off the parts car. 

heres a list of the things that had to be done,

• head stripped completely and re-hardened
• head straightend and planed
• new valve seats and guides
• new valves
• new stem seals 
• all the casting plugs leaked so that all had to be re-machined and frost plugged 
• the head bent laterally so the two middle cam journals has to be welded and line bored 
• inlet and exhaust faces re-machined
• rocker gear disassembled, rocker shafts polished and cleaned, rockers re-bushed and reassembled 

 

it cost heaps and its a fucking joke that anyone would be fucking stupid enough to fix a 4M head but i did.

 

also i got a correct gasket out of straya, it was the last one to be found and GER had to do some digging to find it.

yea. so ill put it back together at some point.

 

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and put it back together i did.

the back dowel hole in the head was a bit flogged so i made a stepped dowel by turning down the shank of a drill bit and using that. it worked mint.

 

fancy new water pump and later model water pump housing with the pipe going around the back of the block rather than around the front of the rocker cover.

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head on and torqued. 

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i sprayed both sides of the gasket with this shit, a product called "hope in a can"

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 fucked around with the cam gear to get the cam timing as best i could. with the 1mm skimmed off the head and the chain being old and fucked i had to piss about with it a bit. luckily Toyota are fucking good cunts and they put extra holes in the cam gear to account for chain stretch so i found one of the holes got the timing perfect so im pretty happy with that.

 

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so yea its starting to come together. theres a few little things that need sorting out before i can start it but if the stars align itll go tomorrow.

ill need to re-torque the head after its been hot a couple of times and at that point ill paint the rocker cover a nice shiny red.

 

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did a bit more on this.

its pretty much ready to go and i was taking the radiator hoses off to replace them and the sludge that came out of the bottom hose didnt fill me with joy so i decided to pull the radiator out and get it reconditioned.

while the radiator is out ill replace the oil cooler hoses and the trans cooler hoses as well. its a million times easier to get to all that shit with the radiator out of the way..

 

AND 

im still after a fan that fits the hub i have for the water pump if anyone has one.

like this but with a 136PCD for the 4 bolt holes 

 

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got all the hoses done and the new radiator installed.

also got the oil cooler flushed while i had it apart.

thanks to @Carsnz123 for sorting me out a fan that fits.

Richie came over and gave me a hand and i got it running. its got a better carb on it now and its running WAY better that it was. bit hard to tell how it sounds because the exhaust is ripped in half so its pretty loud.

anywho it goes well so next week ill give it a few heat cycles and then re-torque the head.

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ive been flat out working on the sedan so i haven't done fuck all to this lately.

today i installed the brand new carb and got it running. i took it for a drive to the end of the road and it seems to go well. still heaps of shit to sort out to get it to run nicely and idle properly and all that  but its a good start. ive got electronic ignition coming for it this week and now dizzy cap and other shit, you know how it goes. anyway i cant wait to get rid of the sedan so i can get this thing sorted.

its got no exhaust at the mo so its a bit hard to have it running to tune it and shit while its making such a ruckus. first job will be new exhaust. i think ill copy the zorst i made for the MS51, its got 1 hot dog about mid way and nothing else. it sounds choice and does the most massive backfires i have ever heard so replicating that would be choice. 

 

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finally i got that sedan shitbox sorted out so i can leave it outside and work on this awesome thing.

started making new exhaust. i used the factory drop pipes from the manifold and merged them just under the drivers feet, then flex joint and a hotdog resonator. im going under the diff because why the fuck not. so far the bit ive done is fully welded and its loud as fuck. WAY louder that the MS51 and its all the same kit. i dunno, might have to put a muffler at the end which would be a bit gay but needs must. 

ill make the rest of the pipe tomorrow and see how it sounds. 

can the manifold i made for the 51 really dampen the sound that much? fucked if i know.

 

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made a bit more zorst but its way to loud. ill get a muffler for the back tomorrow and finish it off.

Rhona has decided she wants to help with this build/ she thinks its her car for some reason so today she helped swap the ball joints. we'll do the other side when i turn the car around.

 

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looks like number 6 inlet valve seized in the guide and had an un-scheduled meeting with Mr piston.'

im fucking stoked about it as you could imagine.

 

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in the mean time i painted some things.

 

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some of the things are now attached.

Mk2 supra brake booster and new master cylinder. had to make a new front brake line. i pulled the guts out of the old proportioning valve (because it was fucked) but left it there to look like its factory for compliance. the mitsi chariot proportioning valve is in the rear brake line under the floor. that allowed me to use all the factory brake lines for the back.

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also stuck the radiator overflow bottle and bracket in. exciting stuff.

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GER put their hand up and said they fucked up with the valve guide clearance which was really good of them.

so they fixed the head and supplied a new head gasket and manifold gaskets. 

tonight i put it back together.

 

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