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"The Driver" Watch him neatly destroy Merc piece by piece... I love the reverse flick that takes a mirror off...

Its a 4K... '83 KE70 with low Km really. I'm surprised it does it. Sounds more like bearings than the chain, although I know they rattle the chain easily.

When the 'rolla starts it rattles in the bearings until the oil light goes out. Luckily it is tuned to start and idle with no accelerator... The oil filter is covered in Japanese writing, so its not a cheap repco copy and I assume it is OK. Now, does anyone know if the rattle would be main bearings or bigends? I might go to the hassle of dropping the sump and changing them if the crank is still OK. I'd like to slip a washer under the oil pump spring while I'm under there. In the 1970/80s when I was rallying Datsuns the Toyotas had a reputation for a weak bottom end but I don't know if that was mains or rodends. Its only done 110,000km, and the compressions are all at 150psi.

We're in Orange... My daughter is already a member & I thought I'd join... The BLCC looks interesting, we might get into that when she has her 'P's

I have a copy I d'loaded from somewhere- PM me your email address & I'll send it over.