1HD-T serial number 0028026 rescue (3 Viewers)

[John Young]

We are just buttoning up the 1HZ with conservative safari turbo kit, which turned out very nice.

Then my younger son casually mentioned that he really enjoyed watching the progress on it and was thinking a diesel in his Middle East 80 "Holy Truck" would go very nicely.

I happen to be about to ship a truck to the US and I asked the shipping company about putting an engine in the container and it looks practical. But the truck needs to ship by early October and the only engine I could have ready is the 1HZ with uprated pistons, etc., and the safari turbo, which would leave me short an engine for the Schrodinger project. So I went out and started to look for something suitable for Schrodinger. I found a few.

Including an FTE

But after looking at all the wiring I dismissed the idea.

Then I happened on this...

12 valve 1HD-FT with H series transmission purportedly out of an 80

 

[John Young]

I've known this seller for several years now and bought a fairly large number of items from him. The seller was reluctant to sell to me because he felt the condition likely was to be pretty poor. Turns out he was selling the engine for a friend and it was out of Afghanistan and purportedly had been run on kerosene.

It is relevant to understand that mostly people shopping for diesel 1HZ/1HD engines here are looking to drop it into a vehicle and just run. That is not what I intended to do. Even if the engine looked really nice and looked good inside I was planning to send the injection pump to Bosch for a complete rebuild and I was also going to take apart the head and likely replace valves, change the bottom end bearings, machine if necessary, etc. So unless an engine has catastrophic problems and cannot be rebuilt, getting something that has kerosene-induced problems is not a show stopper.

The price was attractive so I went ahead and bought it today.

I hope to drop the oil pan and skirt tomorrow and see what the crank looks like.

I'm told this came from an 80 and when looking at another engine with the R151 bolted to it, it looks like the gear shift levers are offset a few centimeters.

It also has a broken shifter housing flange.

It does not affect whether the shift lever will lock in, but maybe I can find whatever Toyota used for the 105s that had H instead of R transmissions. If anyone has ideas on this I would love to hare them.