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Engine Specific Info and Questions => Non VW Group Diesel => Topic started by: maxfax on November 14, 2010, 09:46:32 pm

Title: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: maxfax on November 14, 2010, 09:46:32 pm
Got a lead on one this afternoon..  I think I'm gonna have to move pretty fast on it as the price is good..
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: rs899 on November 15, 2010, 07:20:04 am
I really know nothing..but I would do the same thing as you...move on it ;D..uh where is it?
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on November 15, 2010, 01:48:51 pm
pretty sure they are VE pump equipped, and cross flow headed..
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: maxfax on November 16, 2010, 12:09:24 am
Nevermind, I didn't move fast enough.. It was posted on Craigslist at 5pm..  I found and emailed at 6:30pm.. THe guy mailed me back right away and left me know he had someone coming to look at 8pm..  9pm I got that sad response that it was sold.. 

It was really *THAT* good.. The poop:

1983 Corolla Diesel..  One owner, parked in a shed since 1995 with 105K  Next to no rust, but a fair amount of mouse damage (wiring upolstery etc) $500 near Allentown Pa..

Can we get a "DARN IT!"
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: rs899 on November 16, 2010, 06:50:45 am
DARN IT!  A friend of mine thinks he has a line on an '82 Toyota Hilux diesel truck with less than 100K miles.  I think someone has to die first, though.

I have a couple of old early 80's books on the assortment of diesels available and basic maintenance.  In some ways it's too bad VW and MB became so dominant in the US market- there seem to have been some pretty good designs out there.
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on November 16, 2010, 10:21:45 am
toyota 2L diesels (hilux engines) are junk.. all that ive seen are atleast..
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: snakemaster on November 16, 2010, 10:23:07 pm
Quote from: R.O.R-2.0 on November 16, 2010, 10:21:45 am
toyota 2L diesels (hilux engines) are junk.. all that ive seen are atleast..

i have seen a few with the heads cracked , the engines are a bit beter than junk very slow in the hilux
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on November 17, 2010, 11:20:48 am
Quote from: R.O.R-2.0 on November 16, 2010, 10:21:45 am
toyota 2L diesels (hilux engines) are junk... all that ive seen are atleast..

most that ive seen have suffered from cracked heads and burnt valves.. and they were way gutless.
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: bajacalal on November 17, 2010, 01:41:36 pm
Quote from: R.O.R-2.0 on November 16, 2010, 10:21:45 am
toyota 2L diesels (hilux engines) are junk.. all that ive seen are atleast..

Isn't that the truck that they did all those things to it on Top Gear (like drop it off a building and put it underwater) and it still runs...
Title: Re: Who knows something about an '83 Corolla Diesel?
Post by: R.O.R-2.0 on November 18, 2010, 06:47:46 pm
dropping it off a building and driving it under water are not things that burn up valves and pre chambers. but people that actually use the trucks as a truck, then they sometimes burn them down.. ive seen it more than a few times..