CorollaNut68

Here's a handy chart if you want to keep your speedo accurate...find a size closest to original diameter or at least know how far off it is. Put the original size and what you are changing to and it will calculate the difference and give you actual speeds. Kinda cool. http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/tirecalc.php?tires=155-80r13-175-80r13

You know for sure when you go out in your 67...if you or more likely someone else screw up, you'll most likely die or suffer horrible injuries and drive accordingly (not counting the time and effort spent restoring that beauty). I hope you did anyway, haha...if you didn't..well...uh.....um... Nobody thinks that way in cars now...close the door, it's so quiet...just a big comfy chair, my how fast this chair will go, so smooth, windows up, not much sound or connection to the outside world now... Don't get me wrong, I appreciate new cars, I don't mind a smooth effortless ride, I've tried all the gizmos out, I even sold new cars for a little while (Toyotas of course) driving a lowered supercharged Tc was awesome, feels like it's on rails, til it doesn't...but I have the background in old school to also appreciate that while it is smooth and effortless, I'm still pushing 2 tons of steel down the road at 80 mph (or way more) and all the gizmos in the world won't save me and the only thing between me and disaster are four small patches of rubber on pavement. I like that my mother is surrounded by air bags and all the gizmos when she drives ( because she doesn't notice a lot that goes on around her) and I'll probably borrow hers when it snows. We just seem to be more focused on letting electronics take care of everything rather than developing and maintaining personal skills. Hell, even handwriting is going out of schools! This will be bad for the human race in the long run and goes way beyond cars...( I feel like a preacher)...we will become a race of potatoes rather than star explorers ever dependent on Google for knowledge and ....worst of all...there will be no roar of engines at the self driving electric Icar races! ..

Well...some years ago...the idiots that be...decided on a crush campaign to rid the country of what they considered junk. You won't find much over 10-15 years old in the junkyards...er I mean Auto Recyclers. You have to travel around hoping to catch a glimpse of something in someones backyard or field. I found a transmission one day years ago, out on my little Kawasaki 550...saw a familiar shaped roof barely visible above the brush next to an old house. Stopped in, gave em 20 dollars...dug my way under the car and pulled the tranny out (always carry tools) managed to get it strapped behind me on the bike and took it home. 71 model, most of the engine was gone, the rest rusted really badly...good trans though. When I get over being sick, I'm going to dig out my back shed...I have another rear axle housing, I'm liable to have some more leaves buried somewhere...don't know why I would have gotten an axle without the springs. (hey I'm getting old and have been trying to save stuff for years, I can't remember everything!) Oh yeah...I call the low riders around here..."spatulas"...because they're just good for scraping the roadkill off the streets. Just when they think they're going to beat me they have to stop and crawl across some tracks.

Someday ...mechanics will evolve with that third arm we always end up needing.

To me, that's kind of a good thing (Zero Star Crash rating)...I think cars should be dangerous, and thought of as dangerous, not an extension of your living room or den. Making cars "safer" has done nothing to reduce the number of crashes, instead it lulls people into a false sense of security and they end up watching movies and texting or putting on makeup. They don't have in their mind that they are moving 2 tons of steel down the highway at 80 mph...they are watching a movie go by the windows of their living room. Make em scary so folks will pay attention, make em all stick shift so they have more to do...if fewer people can drive that way...Yay!

You haven't been loving on it like you used to...It's gotten lonely and throws that light on so you'll touch it.

"PB Blaster" gets em all unstuck...took the two piece hoses to a shop here that makes new brake lines...20 minutes later had single pieces in place.

Well as far as room goes, I have more in the front seat than the Yaris, I sat in a new midsize Chevy Malibu the other day...got more room than that too, it felt really cramped. A big boy would not be comfortable in that for long, all squeezed in by consoles. I haven't sat in a Scion iQ yet but I'm pretty sure I can pack more in mine than that...it's not much bigger than one of those Smart cars. We would just be hoping that Toyota would do a better job than Fiat... I'm not holding my breath, I'm gathering parts to make Mine new again...

What is the cardboard looking stuff between the leaves called and where do you get it? I can't find anyone around me who still works on springs. I see posts where y'all seem to have no trouble getting springs reworked over there...I'm going to have to do what I can myself again it seems...on my Ramen Noodle budget. There was one place but the guy has gotten old and bitchy and impossible to talk to...he could maybe clean em up and re-arch them but doesn't have anything else for them....I would be worried he would screw them up and then I'd have nothing. How do you know how much to arch them? What if they break while trying? Would they actually be weaker afterwards? Most of our wrecking yards have gotten rid of anything more than 10-15 years old so finding any other older models is pretty much out I've been trying to find somewhere to get new leaves or "add a leaf" or something without much luck over here, I have the measurements written down somewhere. I've used some thick plastic where some of the "packing?" has been missing and I can find new 3" center bolts but that's about it. If I didn't have the helper springs on it they would be bowed downward instead of up and the whole diff assembly rocks when you roll it back and forth in gear so no clutch popping til it's tightened up. She's getting a lot of seepage around the engine so it's time for a rebuild and I'm gathering parts, just got the seemingly last new factory oil pump in the world (will this one last nearly 50 years too?), Carb kit, more gasket sets, timing and tune-up junk, I'll have to wait and see what engine bearings I'll need, head is not that old shouldn't need much ($200 for new freakin bolts!!), keeping it all stock 3K... For underneath I have new bearings for the diff, new drums and brakes, new rotors and calipers(KE20), wheel bearings, ball-joints, u-joints, newer-ish steering box, looking for e-brake cables and want to try and do something with the springs when I take it all apart again. Planning on trying to screw up my front end with the coilover kit (never done anything like it before but gotta do something, it rides like a brick and gets "airborne" on some bumps). Winters coming in so it may be a while before my shade tree is warm enough. Riding low looks cool but we have too many RR tracks and crappy roads.

Congratulations! You'll need some really tall wood blocks on the pedals so he can start driving right away. Always teach em to drive a stick first. Although sometimes plans don't work out...I've been driving something or riding since my first pedal car...I started my daughter driving a boat around a lake when she was 4 to get used to steering, went on to go-carts and stuff...when she could reach the pedals, taught her to drive a stick....at 22, she tells me she really doesn't like to drive. Doh!

hahahahhah that was good As there is no iPhone in my pocket, so shall there never be an iCar in my driveway...I'll keep getting myself there in my Toy til they bury me in it. It's probably more likely that I'll invent time travel. Then I'll just go back and get me a fresh one. According to Toyota's story they really don't know what happened to the first ever Corolla off the assembly line. That proves that I WILL (did?) go back and get it. KE10 000-001

The Echo and then the Yaris kind of took the Corollas place as their economy versions...but now "economy" is !8 grand. The new Yaris, though smallish, still doesn't have the visibility or the maneuvering capability. My last girlfriend had an Echo with a stick, lots more fun to drive than the Yaris. I drove my Mom's automatic Yaris "Sport Package" in the snow last year with all the traction control, anti-lock stuff on it. I still managed to have fun but the car didn't like it...it's like it was trying to fight back. If I tell my 68 to do a donut at 40 mph, it doesn't argue with me. I know a new one wouldn't be as cool but all they have now are copycats. Nah..screw the rules and just bring out the old blueprints and build brand new KE10's.

:bash: No it's not new yet but they should make it. I have suggested it to Toyota a couple of times but I need every Toy head out there to write, e-mail, message...and let's get them to make a First Generation Retro (FGR) Corolla. Bring back the look, style and SIZE of the original, updated of course with all the latest gizmos (can't get away from that). Kind of in the way GM and Chrysler have done with the Camaro and Challenger 60's-70's look. The Corolla has become virtually indistinguishable from the Camry, it is nothing but another big 4 door sedan and it's numbers are fading. Ford is going to if they already haven't surpassed it for best selling car in the world. It came on the scene as a practical, cheap, fun to drive economy car with good gas mileage and quite a bit of zip for it's time. I keep thinking I'm seeing the new one on the road but it turns out to be a Camry instead...I haven't seen a single 2014 on the road yet, people are opting for the Camry instead now since they are so similar in size and price. Their car lots would be overflowing with all the traded in Fiat 500's, Mini's and Beetles...(and other bigger Corolla's) I would love to see it with rear wheel drive again but that probably won't happen. However they do have a couple of small chassis vehicles a cool retro body could be fitted to. My mom has a 2014 Yaris Sport Hatchback thingy that is the same overall length but the wheel base is longer and wider so it's not as nimble. Contact Toyota through any means available, on every site they have and demand they bring Corolla back to it's small car roots. Build the Corolla FGR! Any PhotoShoppers want to post some ideas that would be cool too. I'll be working on one. I also may have posted something similar here before...but so far it's not working cause they aren't building it yet. :)

How cool, I just got a shiny new granddaughter too. Congrats again. It'll use more till everything's worn in good...go ahead and drive her, they hate sitting in the garage. They have no defense against the gremlins when sitting still. Do you know the legend of the road gremlins? They are the gremlins who jump on your car or bike and chew on cables, hoses, wiring, loosen bolts and whatnot. You are supposed to hang a tiny bell (Gremlin Bell) under your car or bike. The gremlins can't stand the sound of the bell and when they stick their fingers in their ears, they can't hold on ...thus falling off and doing no more damage. The tricky part is...you can't buy your own bell...it has to be given to you by someone who loves you, family, friend etc....and you can't ask for it either. Of course they cannot protect against manufacturing and engineering defects...my 2008 Yamaha V-Star will attest to that.

Sweet! Feels good to be driving one's own handiwork. Congratulations and have a cigar for your new old baby! The rest of my car gets kind of scary, but I can still push my lil 3K up to 100mph for minute...but it does love 65, just a hair below opening the two barrel. I can go back and forth to work all week on $20 or less.

Since I can't run down to the nearest parts store and just get anything (they say "for a what?")....I've kept a couple extra of just about everything but the coil (might as well get another one) in my car for years now...got a mini parts store in there with extra fuses, assorted wire and connectors, caps, rotors, points, condensers, bulbs, bearings, u-joints, a belt, carb kit, nuts bolts, shoestrings and duct tape...I will get home.

I went to AskToyota.com gave em my vin and they gave me the year and month it was built. Other than that I can't get any more info on it like where it was first sold or past owners. Toyota didn't keep the info and our State Police or Revenue Dept can't go back past 1997, I've had it since 88.

I'll see what I can find over here, Thanks..I'm going to try this weekend putting all new bearings in it and see if I can squeeze some more time out of it. But won't putting Datsun parts in my Corolla make it explode? Start rejecting parts, and spewing them out on the highway? here's more on the Borg.http://datsun1200.com/modules/mediawiki/index.php?title=Borg_Warner_60#Model_68

Hey folks, I've finally about worn out all the parts I have and it's looking like I'm going to have to swap rear ends with something else. Bearings wouldn't be much of a problem but teeth are missing on the pinion gear and my searches are not coming up with anything. Swapping also looks like wheels might be a problem as I can't change the fronts and it has that odd bolt pattern nothing else will fit. Anything I can do and still keep my bolt pattern? In the US of course so shipping something here would be insanely expensive I'm sure.

I don't know how the hub end of the cable works on those, mine is simply hooked to a lever that pulls outward from the rear side of the hub. The cable routes like your "change to" version, but to the rear instead of the front (top down view). As long as it operates correctly and reliably...it just needs to be still (a sturdy mount) and pull a lever (in the right direction and without too much or too little slack) and not be too tight of a bend.. .play with it, park on a hill....just don't do anything you can't undo until you're sure it works.

Great again...new project to fiddle with...thanks

Sounds good, Thanks Jono. Edit...looks like they only go to KE20? Don't have KE10 in the list. But since it slips over, will that still work on a KE10? I tried strut inserts for the 20 once and they wont fit all the way down in the tubes, had to send them back. The 10's have a little part at the bottom end about 1-2 inches that's narrower than the top. I have emailed them with the question, I'll see what they say.

I know putting a 1.1 K head on a 1.2 3K raises comp ratio nicely ...(never measured anything but went from leaving a couple of black marks to being able to smoke the tires off in first and second)...so I would guess the other way round would lower it below 9-1 and suck badly. But they will fit.

Anyone have a thread on these coilovers you're all talking about? Mine is riding like a brick now and I can't find anything over here for the front end. Does it involve changing everything out? Spindle , brakes etc....I have '72 model discs on the front but the rest is all '68. I don't need a lot of adjustment, I just want to keep my teeth in my head.

and to clarify...when you take everything off of the two models of shafts (33311-Input) the only difference is the spline count for the clutch disc,..... So you could probably say if it has 19 spline it's also the 2.022:1 ratio. I bet they changed both at the same time. (slightly smoother transition) Fourth gear is part of the input shaft (one piece) and has the same ratio so they can interchange, second (33332) being different ratio, you have to use the matching one piece countergear (33421). Apparently more is better? They changed a lot of bolts from a coarse thread to a fine thread later too, just to make it interesting. One other slight difference is the number of teeth on the plastic drive gear for the speedo...the gear on the output shaft is the same (5 teeth) but the early uses a keyway and the later uses a ball (33481A)