while the hoses are all pretty old ik im not leaking it im buring it up the exhaust is white as the steam of a steam engine. also when it comes to heat mine seems to stay cool as long as she is praticly over flowing with coolant but i will peel the coolant pump off and take a look at it to see how bad it is
1984 Toyota Camry / Vista with 1.8l turbo diesel 1C
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thanks for the correction i wasnt quite sure what to call it it and it seems like i can access all of the head bolts with no issues.
also when i went to try and remnove the head this morning i sliced my finger open on cutting a stuck rubber hose. so by car bite me. my sister is a nurse and said not to work on it for the next 2 days so the cut heals. no stiches were needed, but it was a bleeder. fml i guess i should wait for the parts to come it
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Sounds like she is going to put up a fight, this motor is a knuckle busting little sonova bitch.... If you have the ability to remove the entire engine you may make your life easier but otherwise this will be a bitch of a job for sure... I started a thread for you...Click the link below and I will post any info from the service book you need
>>> Information on removing head on Toyota 1C - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/information-on-removing-head-on-toyota-1c.1371055/
Yeah this engine is probably gonna fight me and make me bleed more and bust my knuckles even more but I will rebuild it into a reliable car. If I can get the proper gaskets. If not I'll make the gaskets myself!
God damnit a part of the head cracked
Hey yall, just picked one of these nuggets up a couple weeks back and I thought id share as there dont seem to be too many of us out there! 1984 1.8L turbo-ish diesel with the 5 speed manual.
some quirks about her; she currently has no turbo
The previous owner (or many owners) decided to just add a blockoff plate where the turbo goes and a god-awful looking intake
she does not start cold without ether (i know its bad), so im currently trying to diagnose that. When it does start, it covers the whole neighborhood with white smoke. The smoke does go away when i start driving it however. The previous people who owned it seem to be electrical wizards as there was an oil pressure gauge in the cabin hooked up to a water temp sensor near the thermostat. There is definitely some hack work done on this thing lol. Despite the shortcomings, this is the most fun car I have ever driven, its so awesome to bang through gears with all 55 hp this thing can give. It sounds like a truck too haha. I appreciate all the information, This thread has been a lifesaver so far.
some quirks about her; she currently has no turbo
The previous owner (or many owners) decided to just add a blockoff plate where the turbo goes and a god-awful looking intake she does not start cold without ether (i know its bad), so im currently trying to diagnose that. When it does start, it covers the whole neighborhood with white smoke. The smoke does go away when i start driving it however. The previous people who owned it seem to be electrical wizards as there was an oil pressure gauge in the cabin hooked up to a water temp sensor near the thermostat. There is definitely some hack work done on this thing lol. Despite the shortcomings, this is the most fun car I have ever driven, its so awesome to bang through gears with all 55 hp this thing can give. It sounds like a truck too haha. I appreciate all the information, This thread has been a lifesaver so far.
hey i got good news for you it looks like they left your turbo control hoses and circuits. but not the spring thats (vacum?) operated and allows the turbo to adds boost to the engineHey yall, just picked one of these nuggets up a couple weeks back and I thought id share as there dont seem to be too many of us out there! 1984 1.8L turbo-ish diesel with the 5 speed manual.
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some quirks about her; she currently has no turbo
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she does not start cold without ether (i know its bad), so im currently trying to diagnose that. When it does start, it covers the whole neighborhood with white smoke. The smoke does go away when i start driving it however. The previous people who owned it seem to be electrical wizards as there was an oil pressure gauge in the cabin hooked up to a water temp sensor near the thermostat. There is definitely some hack work done on this thing lol. Despite the shortcomings, this is the most fun car I have ever driven, its so awesome to bang through gears with all 55 hp this thing can give. It sounds like a truck too haha. I appreciate all the information, This thread has been a lifesaver so far.
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The engine label says 1C, so I think it's originally a normally aspirated engine. I would guess that there was previously a home-made install of a turbo, or that the PO needed to replace the exhaust manifold but could only find the turbo type. Or that it is a turbo engine with a NA valve cover. Does the engine number match the paperwork?Hey yall, just picked one of these nuggets up a couple weeks back and I thought id share as there dont seem to be too many of us out there! 1984 1.8L turbo-ish diesel with the 5 speed manual.
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some quirks about her; she currently has no turbo
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she does not start cold without ether (i know its bad), so im currently trying to diagnose that. When it does start, it covers the whole neighborhood with white smoke. The smoke does go away when i start driving it however. The previous people who owned it seem to be electrical wizards as there was an oil pressure gauge in the cabin hooked up to a water temp sensor near the thermostat. There is definitely some hack work done on this thing lol. Despite the shortcomings, this is the most fun car I have ever driven, its so awesome to bang through gears with all 55 hp this thing can give. It sounds like a truck too haha. I appreciate all the information, This thread has been a lifesaver so far.
What looks like a boost compensator on top of the injection pump (which decreases off-boost injection volume) is just a high altitude compensator (which reduces injected volumes as ambient air pressure drops).
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What's a turbo control hose/circuit and where is it? Do you mean the valves on the bulkhead? That's a good observation and a clue that it may indeed originally have been a turbo engine in there.
The vacuum operated mechanism is indeed missing, but it does not add boost to the engine, this is done by pipework. It reduces off-boost fuelling based on manifold pressure.
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Looking at the corrosion around the edge of the head surface, the gasket has been leaking for some time. So it may not have been you that cracked the head running it without coolant, but who knows. Marks on the valve face and pre-combustion chamber suggest someone has been in there before.
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Nice! I like that color, classy as heck.....Interesting to see the 1C and not 1CT printed on the valve cover......I don't know enough about diesels or this motor to make sense of that.....Hey yall, just picked one of these nuggets up a couple weeks back and I thought id share as there dont seem to be too many of us out there! 1984 1.8L turbo-ish diesel with the 5 speed manual.
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some quirks about her; she currently has no turbo
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she does not start cold without ether (i know its bad), so im currently trying to diagnose that. When it does start, it covers the whole neighborhood with white smoke. The smoke does go away when i start driving it however. The previous people who owned it seem to be electrical wizards as there was an oil pressure gauge in the cabin hooked up to a water temp sensor near the thermostat. There is definitely some hack work done on this thing lol. Despite the shortcomings, this is the most fun car I have ever driven, its so awesome to bang through gears with all 55 hp this thing can give. It sounds like a truck too haha. I appreciate all the information, This thread has been a lifesaver so far.
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No start when cold? How cold? Do you have a plug in block heater?
>> My car will start consistently down to about 28-30 degrees but lower than that it will require to be plugged in or turned over / glow plugged many more times than usual.
>> Remember, the owners manual says in cold starts to apply half throttle.
>> Ether is rough, especially in a diesel... if you feel you must spray something in there shoot some carb cleaner which isnt as raw as ether. Just my opinion and honestly I didnt even know either would help make a diesel combust
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Blowing white smoke at start up??
>> Make sure coolant levels are up to par before you end up like loafduck who just ran it dry and overheated
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Pretty cool that you have an oil pressure sensor and temp gauge even if it is a hack job lol
What type of speeds are you all cruising these rigs out. Try to keep em within reason I think the 65+mph range gets these engines hot and working hard
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Good eye as always from Eurasia ....Thanks for chiming in, always appreciate hearing your wisdom
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White smoke on cold start which clears up after a minute or two is almost certainly burned out glow plugs, or a defective glow plug circuit.Hey yall, just picked one of these nuggets up a couple weeks back and I thought id share as there dont seem to be too many of us out there! 1984 1.8L turbo-ish diesel with the 5 speed manual.
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some quirks about her; she currently has no turbo
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she does not start cold without ether (i know its bad), so im currently trying to diagnose that. When it does start, it covers the whole neighborhood with white smoke. The smoke does go away when i start driving it however. The previous people who owned it seem to be electrical wizards as there was an oil pressure gauge in the cabin hooked up to a water temp sensor near the thermostat. There is definitely some hack work done on this thing lol. Despite the shortcomings, this is the most fun car I have ever driven, its so awesome to bang through gears with all 55 hp this thing can give. It sounds like a truck too haha. I appreciate all the information, This thread has been a lifesaver so far.
Thanks for clarifying that because apparently my glow plug circuit was very loose on my car and so that explains my extremely rough cold starts.
Some of the recent scratches are from me not so gently removing it out of the car. are you saying I can put a new gasket on it and the engine should turn over and work?
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Ah, I did wonder about that jagged mark. If that's just a scratch then you should get away with just having the head machined flat, which should not cost much. The crack in the pre-combustion chamber is not really an issue - they all crack and it seems rarely fail catastrophically. As long as it's still tight in the head I would not be worried about it.
I'm in a college class right now but I can probably show you in like an hour and a half when I'm talking about with the turbo. Also look on the top part of the hood there should be a vacuum circuit diagram somewhere it should show you a little more clear of what I'm talking about.
Thanks man you just probably save me a ton of money and hours trying to get this car working again