Stupid Car

[Felix]

The ke16 shat itself on the way to pick up the kids this arvy.

 

Was driving through town and had to stop before the pedestrian crossing and it just stalled and refused to start, holding up traffic behind me. Fortunately there was an empty carpark on the side of the road so I used the starter to crank it into the carpark and walked to get the kids. I thought that maybe the fuel guage was possibly playing up so got a tin of petrol from the servo near the school to save maybe having to walk back again.

 

Anyway got back to the car and pulled the airfilter off to check if there was fuel in the carb. There was, as well as a heap of oil and water...... Blown headgasket. The crap ended up in there from the PCV to aircleaner hose, and gunged up the inside of the airfilter strangling it. Explains why it stalled. LOL!

 

It was then an easy fix to get running. I just left off the filter and diverted the PCV hose, and it started after sucking some of the crap through. Added a bit of water and drove the 7 kays home watching the temp guage steadily rising. Got up to around 7/8ths on the guage. :lolcry:

 

Got home, popped the bonnet, and grabbed the hose. Was kinda weird watching water boil off the rocker cover and head. :lolcry: Cooled the radiator off a bit so I could fill it up, and restarted the car. Seems to still be running ok, and fortunately there is no smoke coming from the exhaust so hopefully the rings are still good, and the bearings to... fingers crossed.

 

Stupid cars. Oh well, assuming the bottom end is still good, should only cost around $100 to fix with some new gaskets and a head skim. The joy of owning a simple old car.

[7shades]

yup... 100 for the rolla vs 1000 to get the head gasket done in my mate's 5mg cressida...

[Teddy]

10,000 km toyota service for a cressida.

Oil change

Oil Filter Change

Check over vehicle & Report on problems

R&R Headgasket

 

hahahah

 

Hope its not too bad felix :lolcry:

[Medicine_Man]

It's a K motor, Needs more than that to kill it :lolcry:

[flat out]

we have a cressida as school with a blown head gasket, was donated with a free 7mge :lolcry:

were fixing it and selling it.

 

oh btw i made people push me around in it today :lolcry:

[Felix]

Yea, she should be right.

 

I left it sit for a couple of hours and went out and started it, the bottom end seems fine. Sounds exactly the same as normal on startup. No smoke or bottom end knocks or anything.

 

Will probably pull it apart on the weekend and have a better look at it. A skim, new head and manifold gaskets, and a new thermostat and it should hopefully be all good.

 

Might setup my 32/32DGV on it when it all goes back together for a bit more go.

 

Was just very lucky the missus didn't take it to work today.... Not so bad happening to me.

[Felix]

Glad I don't own a Cressida. :lolcry:

[Hiro Protagonist]

There's nothing wrong with Cressidas themselves, the problem is inherent to all 7Ms that haven't been worked. Toyota incorrectly torqued the head bolts from factory, so the head gaskets were doomed to fail at some stage. Clean up the head, whack a new gasket on, torque it up correctly and re-torque when necessary, and they're a quite reliable motor.

[Felix]

Rang up my local Engine Reconditioners. It will cost $44 for a headskim with a couple of hour turnaround. :lolcry:

 

Not bad considering that when I originally put this motor together about 6 years ago it cost $40 to get the head skimmed then.

[Felix]

Pulled the head off this evening. I spent more time cleaning up my workbench and shed floor than it took to remove the head.

 

It took less than half an hour to pull the head off. Gotta love the simplicity of the old K series. :) The front most bolt on the extractors was the worst bit.

 

Emulsified engine oil stinks...... :yak:

[Medicine_Man]

I have this to look foward to next week, 1/2hr sounds like you have it down to an art :)

[Felix]

LOL. Yea well I have been playing with K series corollas for about 15 years now. Could probably do it blindfolded.

 

Pity they don't go back together that fast. I'll probably spend more time scraping the old gasket residue off the block.

[Trev]

Where is the thread "HOW TO BUILD A K IN A DAY" :yak:

 

Its crazy how you can torture a corolla motor and i am yet to see a warped head, Anyone wanna prove me wrong :)