General Mechanical

Hey, I am very close fitting a newly worked 5k in my wagon and was wondering is there anything needed when installing the new engine OR something that i must not forget? Also, will i need to rebuild and recurve the distributor to deal with the new engine stats or will it be fine until a later date??? Thanks..... Any comments would be muchly appreciated!

Hey Guys..... I'm deciding between getting a new carb or keeping my 32/36 DGV Weber for my worked 5k...... If i rebuilt the Weber, should i pay someone, or could i do it myself? I priced a rebuild kit at $45.00 at autObarn..... Any suggestions??? Thanks :P

hey does anyone know where i can get rust repair panels for my ke55 4 door sedan?

heya all, i happen to have all the bits required to build myself a ae35 (ke35 + 4A-C) for free! i want to get it going with what i have but i don't have a clutch master cylinder. what i want to know is, can a ke10 brake master cylinder be used as a clutch master? i use to own a 4A-C ke11 and as far as i can remember this was done, maybe with some interal changes?? i know you all probably think I'm tight but i want to have the car running and be able to say it didnt cost a cent... cheers scott.

Hey All, Been going through the KE30 troubleshooting all the little problems, and the only thing left that doesn't work on the dash is the "Brake" warning light, that sits with the hand brake light. I'm assuming that its a low fluid level warning or similar, and also assuming that it connects to the sensor in the side of the distribution block thingo on the firewall. What i want to know is under what circumstances is this light meant to come on? There is currently no fluid whatsoever in the front brake circuit as i have changed to new front calipers that have yet to be bled, and the light still remains off with the ignition turned on. It's not a huge issue, but it…

Hi. Anyone know about the 4 and 5K-J engines and what box they bolt up to? Never heard of them myself and the only reference I can find is that they were used in the KE70. Thanks.

Hey All, My name is Adam, and i'm currently in the process of fixing up a KE30 to be a daily driver. The problem i have at the moment is that the wheels i've sourced foul on the struts, and i imagine it will only get worse once tyres are fitted. So what i want to know, is do all the 4 * 114.3 RWD 'rollas run the same offset between the strut body and the wheel bolt up face, or will a later model hub (perhaps one that came factory fitted with wider tyres than a ke30) give me more clearance? If there is nothing available i will turn up some proper bolt on spacers with correct concentric locating rings, but i'd prefer to keep this as legal (and cheap :P) as …

hello gentlemen. I'm wondering if any of u guys have any info about putting a power rack and pinion steering in an early rolla. this is the final thing i will be doing to my ke30, if anyone has seen something similar done it may save me alot of measuring and research. :P

Hello, ive just installed a 3k and 5 speed box into my 1968 toyota corolla. I encountered a problem when i realised that my stock ke10 tailshaft doesnt fit the 5 speed. So i ventured to the wreckers and bought a ke70 tailshaft (which is two piece; Unuseable). I bought this coz the spline off this tailshaft fits the 5 speed output shaft. i was going to take apart the uni and use it on my stock ke10 driveshaft, but alas, the uni is a different size and can't be swapped. All i need to know is what one piece tailshaft from later model corollas will fit the output shaft on my 5 speed, so i can get one and cut it down to fit my ke10. Or even better one that is the right size an…

Might be useful to anyone who was thinking of putting IRS into a car that originally has live axle (ie KE Corolla) RA40 with IRS

How do you tell if a fuel pump is on it's way out? I've got 2 fuel pumps in my car, one is a facet to fill the surge tank, that's noisy and always has been, no problems there. The other is apparently out of a VL, and has always had a bit of a whirr to it, but I'm now noticing it a lot more, it's gotten a lot more noisy. The car still seems to drive okay, it revs alright and all that, doesn't appear to be leaning out. Is the noise an indication that the fuel pump is on it's way out? Also, looking through eBay (yay for eBay), there are so many fuel pumps listed up "to suit VL", but they're all different part numbers? They all look the same, is there a certain one th…

hi I own a 1984 Ke70 sedan. It drives perfectly for long distances untill you turn off the engine, then the car refuses to restart and when it does it constantly stalls and has zero acceleration. Even if you let the car sit still for a few hours it still doesn't work. However if you let the car "rest" overnight it is magically fixed and runs fine again untill u stop again. Noone has any idea what is wrong with it, the only thing i haven't done is try an exorcism. Can anyone help?

gday I'm after a new master cylinders for a ke10. I was wondering what would fit right in and what would be best to use? thanks in adavnce

ok, just a quick one for those with ke20's, i've blowen the fuseable link from the starter to hazards and indicators, apartently from the wiring harness the wire should be red? can anyone tell me from experience just where i'll find the pair of fuseable links? as i need to get the car on the road asap! and i can't find them for the life of me. many thanks chris

Cracked open 2 of my old T50 gearboxes today, one of them is a JDM AE86 box, the other is an ADM TA22 box. The JDM box has 2 missing teeth off the layshaft (2nd gear, I think), and apart from that can't tell very much. However, the oil was replaced less than a week before it self destructed, and the oil that came out previously had lots of sparkles. The TA22 box has lots and lots and lots of shiny sparkles. I replaced the TA22 box because it was making a hell of a lot of noise, and it kept popping out of gears all the time. Both boxes seem to have lots of little scratches across the wear face, and both of them also seem to have a bit of corrosion on the g…

Hi all, Just spent two two weeks rebuilding my carby and it was all jammed up with gunk.. would an oil catch can help this? If so could i just run the tube from the block in to an old "MILO" tin. Would i have to vent the gas back in to the carby? Since my block has two "breather" holes should i run them both in to the can?? might seem like a silly question but some body might have played with this before! thanks in advance..

Hey guys, Long time reader, first time poster. This is possibly the stupidest thing done, but has anyone put a supercharger onto a 4K before? I have a KE20 that has had a fair bit of work done on the engine (Only gets used on a track) and have a small (SC12) supercharger to put on. If anyone has any information on doing this, I would like to hear. Josh :D

niggling things here and there, but the main one that's pissing me off is it's stalling on me when i put it into reverse. it's a real bitch when i'm having to do those 10 point turns in these ʇ~~ɔy little streets around where i live while working. i've checked the timing, it seems to be alright.. it is tending to idle roughly atm but i don't know what could be causing it. i'm no efi wizard etc so i'm stuck with what it could be.. cheers, matt :D

ok pretty simple and straight forward question. i'm doing a manual conversion to the old toyoglide 2 spd box. everything is out and the only thing left to remove is the torque converter. but having no experence b4 with auto's i have no idea. i can't see any bolts the alow me to remove the converter to drop the flywheel? anyway hoping someone could shed some light as i wanna get this conversion finished asap many thanks

Andrew, I promised you I would post you a picture of the 5K engine, to show you how clean it is now ! To fill you all in. This engine came from a KE55 that had been done up by someone, unknown. A 5K & K50 g/box had been added and the interior done up. Anyway the cancer set in, and the car was doomed to be a "paddock basher" in a large orchard near Caloundra, where it was used to "get around" the orchard, on muddy tracks. When Andrew & I saw it, it had grass inside the car (growing I think) and you have never seen such a dirty engine. The car had more cancer that the Qld Health system, and there was only one place for the body. Back to Japan, …

my Plymouth Cricket's Datsun a14 intake; this is a redline adapter for a dgv/dfv carb

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a day at a few different wreckers and not too much luck... was looking for a ke25 sized diff, which is 1320mm mounting face to mounting face corona mkII - too wide 14??mm r31 skyline - too wide 14??mm hiace - too wide 13??mm L300 - too wide 14??mm chrysler lancer - 1320mm! 120y - couldnt find one but is meant to be close 13???? commodore - too wide datsuns - some possibilities, will check out a few soon escort - 1340mm, little bit too wide ke30 - 1370mm, too wide ta22 - 1370mm, too wide volvo - too wide scorpion - too wide hilux old - 1370mm, too wide some vans - 1370, 1370+ too wide so not too many cars that would have suitable width diffs :sad…

I just signed up and love this Forum. I just bought my first car, happens to be a mad 84 ke70 Corolla . I love it, i was shocked by the number of mods you could do to them. I have this problem with my door lights and clock. They just don't work. they were working when i bought the car and after we put my head unit in they stuffed up. And yes i have checked the fuses and bulbs and replaced them. After that i don't no what to try. Could someone help me or give me advice.

G'Day Peoples, Just wondering what type of spark plugs you guys use and how often you change them? Also.....do you think (say that you prefer NGK spark plugs) that their Iridium spark plugs are any more effecient in a 3K/4K/5K engine than standard spark plugs? Your views please.

An idea... Someone should try putting Falcon rear discs on. I had a brief look at the brackets, and without measuring everything, it looks like it wouldn't be hard to get to bolt up. The problems I can see are that the bracket may be too thick, and that the discs are 5 stud, so you'd have to get them redrilled to 4 stud. But the calipers are nice and beefy, cheap as chips, and the discs are BIG and VENTILATED.

Anyone know what the red and green wires are for that come off the dizzy? I wanna convert my 4-AC to eletronic ignition. I'm sick of contact points.

hey ive got a 1978 ke55 corolla and want to get some more balls out of it can any one tell me any cheap upgrades i can to to the 4k engine in it any help would be apreciated

got a problem with the electrics started the car the other day and i have no gauges on the dash and no warning lights on the dash so what i would like to know is where else apart from the fuse box near the battery, where is the other one(if there is another one). Help would be more than appreciatted. Chris

Hey guys, Very new here... Love the forum... get to see rolla owners around.... anyway, i've got 2 things i need help on.. i drive a 1981 KE70 and i need to replace the ciggy lighter but can't seem to get it out of the bracket that's holding it in... any idea on how this is done? also... i am trying to remove my entire dash.. don't know where the exact screw locations are... i am actually trying to clean the dash, there were some funny burning smell coming out from the air conditioning vents.. but that's beside the point and anyway i have found the source of that.. but i do need to remove the dash to clean the area in there... also toying with the id…

gday peoples.... well i decided to make a new thread about my newly aquired rims..hehehe...they will be to go on the two door KE30 of mine.... ruts's old rims:

I bolted on Haikals Nikki carb onto the wagon today, the carb is either off a Mazda 808 or a 1600, not sure. Anyway, everything bolted up alright, I even found a random bracket lying around in my pile of junk that I could use as a throttle cable bracket, the only cable that isn't really ideal is the choke, but it wasn't before anyway. The end of the sheath isn't clamped down, and I can't think of anyway to clamp it down. Anyway, after having some dramas trying to set the floats etc, everything seems to be good. Don't have an air filter yet (Autobarn sold me the wrong filter and then closed before I could return it, GAH), so put a piece of chux over the top and went…

i found this out totally by accident i picked up some ford fairlane seats from a wreakers if you swap the corolla seat runners on to the falcon seats they bolt straight in no drilling required all falcon/ fairlane seats from xa 1971 to xf 1987 share the same base defintaly a good comfort upgrade over corolla seats :(

From running around trying to find out about all sorts of plastics etc, I discovered 3M Scotchply. This is how it's described: And among the many example uses are: automotive springs, trailer springs, and even helicopter rotor blades!!! I have heard, however, that it's not cheap stuff. But I thought it looked interesting!

hey wats the difference with 4-2-1 and 4-1 extractors? cheers

OK, I am getting sick and tired of people talking up welding there diffs and so on so heres a simple explaination for you all, there are there MAJOR types of diff setup, open limited Slip (LSD) Locked. OPEN: simply where its easier to turn the wheels the power will go. E.G you are turning a corner and the outside wheel starts to spin, all of the power will go to that wheel, so your car will slow down as you have NO power to te ground. LSD: A limited slip diff will try to distro the power evenly between both wheels, E.G you are turning a corner and the outside wheel starts to spin, The diff …

hey guys, wanna build a bit of an exhaust, but don't have access to bender. do u think it wil be ok if i ran the piping from the resonator (half way) straight to the back to the muffler, like without going over the axel? or is that a bad idea? cheers

hey guys, my clutch in my ke70 is slipping again. it is only the cable operated one, so there is no chance of hydraulic oil getting in onto the pressure pate or anything (as my trusty haynes manual explains). i adjusted the circlip in the engine bay and it was a good 4-5 grooves loose, but since then i can really really notice that the car revs are high, but the car is nuggeting along. another sign that its getting worse is that i use to be able to, when wet, give more revs and dump clutch a bit quicker and get light wheelspin. i don't really do many burnouts and crap, but g/b was changed prob a yr ago now, don't u think that the mechanic wuld have sed 'yeh clutch is …

Anyone done one? how hard? what did u use? rough cost?

From http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/8422/4age.htm: Opinions? Isn't the cover to keep dust and stuff off the cam belt etc? I would assume that if you drive offroad or on dirt etc (autocross, rally etc) then taking the belt covers off wouldn't be the best idea in the world, since you'd be more prone to getting shit on the belt? That said, I've got holes in my covers where the FWD engine mounts are supposed to stick out...