Toyota Quirks

[jrm53]

After reading of the problem with bleeding the clutch slave clyinder I thought I would tell you about my 1977 Corolla that I bought new. I had to replace 2 throwout bearings in about 50,00 miles. Then it got to where the starter would not work when it got very cold when it warmed up it was fine. After one agravating episode I took it over to a starter rebuilding place they checked it, Yeah its bad, they put a new one on, worked fine until the last very last cold snap of the winter, would not work. I called them they said bring it back and they would check it. Spring came, no more problems. Next winter the first real cold weather it would not work, I got the wife and a chain and had her pull me with my pickup and the rear wheels just slid, motor would not turn over, she pulled me out in the road and I tried it for a quarter of a mile, still just slid the tires, had a great idea to try the starter at the same time, PRESTO the motor started and ran the starter worked fine! The twits had left a place for water to enter but no hole on the bottom of the flywheel housing for it to drain, I ran it up on my ramps and drilled a drain hole in it and never had a problem after that. If you remember their ads from back then, " O what a feeling" I had a feeling that they would not have liked, that moisture was what ruined the 2 throw out bearings. Jeff

 

[cussedemgun]

I don't think that was Toyota's fault.

MURPHY GOTT'CHA!

Do you remember the old add of the early '60's? As Kennedy was becoming known, a customer asked the Toyota salesman about the new Toyoter. After much coaching he finally managed 'ToyotA' . The salesman then asked what model he was interested in. The answer "the coroller"

 

[Harrison]

We have had four Toyotas in the past 12 years, get well over 100K miles on them with little trouble and no breakdowns. The easiest, best and cheapest in the long run way to fix a Toyota is take it into the Toyota dealership and let them do it right the first time. That and pull regular maintence and maintence checks. Preventive maintence is a great thing.

 

[cp1969]

I had a '76 SR5 that I bought in '77 w/4,000 miles on it. It was an OK car, never caused me any trouble, but at 140,000 it was totally shot. That was about '83 when I got rid of it. Maybe cars didn't last as long back then, but now I don't consider a car much more than broken in at 140k.

 

[jrm53]

I did not state to clearly I guess why the Corolla would not start when it got below freezing. What was wrong was the water standing in the bottom of the bell housing would freeze locking the flywheel solid in the ice. Every other standard shift auto I think has a drain hole to eliminate this. It was P poor engineering. The dealership put the first throwout bearing in. Jeff

 

[mr.magnum]

i can't speak for the 70's. my family has owned about 7 from the early 80's on. every one of them has been like a bug you couldn't kill. and trust me, my grandpa has tried. we had a carolla for about 6years and the only thing that ever broke on it was the rubber door seal.

 

[alde]

Aside from my clutch cylinder bleeding problem my truck has been pretty much trouble free. Of course it only has 267,000 miles on it.