1982 Crown Engine

[toyrta]

hey guys

ive been offered a 1982 toyota crown REAL cheap through a mate.... its been over heating ( hoping not a head gasket :S )

i don't know much about these crownys.... been told its a 3L petrol motor.... but what motor is it ??? and does anyone know weather this over heating was or is a common issue ??

just trying to figure out prices etc to make sure I'm not getting into a endless money pit :) been there to many times lol

[Hiro Protagonist]

hey guys

ive been offered a 1982 toyota crown REAL cheap through a mate.... its been over heating ( hoping not a head gasket :S )

i don't know much about these crownys.... been told its a 3L petrol motor.... but what motor is it ??? and does anyone know weather this over heating was or is a common issue ??

just trying to figure out prices etc to make sure I'm not getting into a endless money pit :) been there to many times lol

 

Unless it has had serious conversion work, it'll have an M-series engine, and the 3.0L could be either a 6MGE or 7MGE. 7MGEs have a reputation for headgaskets going, not sure about the 6M though.

[ninja-philbo]

its an easy job to do the hg on m motors bro

[toyrta]

ok sweet so its pretty much going to have a blown HG.

spoke to the dude and he gave me a 5M----- engine number ? are we still all in the same ball park here ?

[Trev]

ok sweet so its pretty much going to have a blown HG.

spoke to the dude and he gave me a 5M----- engine number ? are we still all in the same ball park here ?

 

5M is only a 2800.

[Hiro Protagonist]

ok sweet so its pretty much going to have a blown HG.

spoke to the dude and he gave me a 5M----- engine number ? are we still all in the same ball park here ?

 

5M is a 2.8L motor, it'll be either a 5M-E (single-cam EFI) or 5MGE (DOHC EFI, same engine as the Mark 2 Supra had overseas). They're older than the 6 and 7M, but still fairly reliable and simple.

[toyrta]

ok heres a pic of the motor ....obviously thermostat & gaskets are on the list haha :S

so apart from a HG issue is there anything else witht the crowns i should take into consideration ?

thanks for all the help too guys

[Hiro Protagonist]

Looks like your everyday run-of-the-mill 5ME to me

[Trev]

Looks like your everyday run-of-the-mill 5ME to me

 

Yeah it is exactly like the 5me in my mums old cressida with air pump and all.

[Bamboo]

M engines naturally run warm.

 

All blow head, pun intended. But they go forever, it's a Toyota after all.

[TheNOBBLER[RL]]

A good mate of mine has a few crowns, two of which run 5me's. To give you an idea of how unkillable they are he ran his last m powered crown (he just stepped into a 1uz powered one) with a blown headgastket for the best part of 170000km! The things done over 450000k's and he's only stopped driving it because he was sick of filling it up with water all the time.

 

If its done a HG don't bother with an aftermarket one, go for a genuine one and it will last. Treat is well and it will never die.

 

JP

[7shades]

 

Teddy and I got this one running after it had been sitting under a tree with weeds growing through the engine bay... For over 4 years.

Stale fuel, rusty fittings, clogged filters, water in the tank, failing injectors... Still fired up!

 

You can just make out the genuine Toyota 5M diagnostic 'computer' sitting on the passenger seat :)

Edited November 15, 2010 by 7shades

[toyrta]

dude thats awesome !! love it haha

the good ol toyota motor ay :) reminds me of my mate back home turned up to my house one day in his KP60 starlet and quickly realised he had been driving with no oil for ages haha so we grabed the drain tray from down the side of shed that had old used oil with leaves and water all up in it and poured it in as a "just to get me home" fix .... a year later still going strong :) untill we decided to take it 4wheel driving and sunk it haha oops :)

[silverra23]

Other thing to remember is this model Crown is worth fark all on the second hand market... i get people ringing me regularly and whinging that they paid so much money for it when it was new and now no one wants them... "It was advertised as Japan's Rolls Royce you know"

 

Yes yes... and now its worth $1500 if you can find someone to buy it!