The driveline on those Toyotas lasted a heck of a lot longer than the body did, at least that's my observation of them through the 80s and 90s. Great vid Ezra
Great video Ezra. I had a International 9900 that the female contacts for the a/c clutch relay crapped out on. I used to just plug the relay in about halfway to find the “sweetspot” I had a heck of a time troubleshooting that! Never did bother to tear it apart to fix it...
thanks for shearing ur knowledge, good video i have a 92 toyota 4 runner it have the relays on the same place my truck have 2 relays, I replace both of them replace the control switch, resistor and also check all fuses all goodand my blower still not working any help where to check next thanks in advance
1:00 Well, I'm not quite sure I can sign onto that since you guys never got the Diesels, which were very reliable, it's a common enough joke that a Lux with a half million kilometres is barely run in, but a lot of its reliability came down to the simplicity. That being said, I agree a 100% that they could have figured out a easier way to fix issues with the heater.
Blower fans have a pretty high amp draw so best to have a dedicated relay/circuit. It's just like they forgot about it or it was a after thought and they just shoved it wherever
@@Ezrider359 i think you could be mistaken here. The whole point of a relay is small amp switch to turn on a high draw. You need something basic to create that electromagnet. Those alligators clips you were using are bearing the full draw.
I have 6 of these a 74 87 88, 88 88 and a 93..I have same problem with 93 ..my ec is stuck on I know the problem.great vid I have a 359 and a Toyota to
You can get a set of relays with a switch on top. Pretty handy for troubleshooting. Also you forgot to replace your glovebox gasket. This will cause issues down the road.
My 89` now 505000 km no trouble ,just today the register for the inside heater leaking. It`s just behind the grey area you see over the shifter button on the video. Behind the radio that`s not there.
Sorry if i bother but i see you have aftermarket gauges temp volt and other......how did you or where you conect the one for water temperature?????? Please hope hear from you thanks or some one ealse can help please i got 3.0 motor
You are absolutely right about simplicity You are absolutely right about durability And you are absolutely right about subdividing the entire body for multiple families of rust mites However the shortest possible lifespan of a motor vehicle is contributed to the magical skill of a pesky female turning one into an accordion now that may be all right for magicians and that may be all right for musicians unfortunately it was not all right for me when the pesky lunatic female wanted to borrow mine
Can anyone, not necessarily the video maker, answer this: I have a big mouse nest in my dashboard, around the heater fan ('93 Toyota truck). You can hear all the debris getting tossed around when you try to turn on the fan; sounds like a bunch of acorn shells. Took to a mechanic yesterday, he cost $120 to tell me, "Yup, mouse nest, will have to clean out the entire heater/fan/duct system, will take 10-12 hours, cost at least $1200." Question is, should it really take that long? Is there a link to a video about how to do it? Thinking to find a friend and try to figure it out ourselves. $1200 is a massive chunk of cash for me.
As a tech lack of access to maintenance items such as fuses definitely does piss me off and that is a design flaw. However I'll bet the truck has gone all those miles and all these years in a Climate that requires alot of use of the heater and it just now is requiring service lol.
True not complain about the service life of the part just the fact that it's like the heater circuit was a after thought and they just shoved it wherever. It was a California truck half it's life
@@Ezrider359 Gotcha. Well if it has A/C and was in Cali I'm sure they were using it a lot of the time and its the same circuit. I've owned and worked on a ton of them and I've personally never had or seen that issue, doesn't seem to be a high failure rate thing. Only issue I've had with the HVAC system in any of them was a blower motor resistor on my 88, in which case the fan will still work just only on high. I agree it's poor placement, but I've seen much worse and it isn't some thing that needs regular service at all.
Its not uncommon for the trucks to go 200k on the original engines though.. If people keep the timing chain taken care of and don't rev the piss out of them offloading. Many timing chains are maintenance free but these are not, they should he treated like a timing belt basically. I've had literally like 10 Toyota trucks mostly 4wds but some 2wds as well ranging from the whole year range, transmission issue don't seem to be all that common either, at least not to the point of failure. Most of the tcase or transmission issue I've seen is with wheeling rigs with 37 inch plus tires that get the shit beat out of them and even then they hold up decent all things considered.
Yeah there not horrible. Very little bore wear every time the first engine was apart factory timing chain guide failures eating into the water pump dumping coolant in the oil and over heating it's had a hard life wouldn't consider them above average reliability tho. There simple that's where they shine
@@Ezrider359 you need to get the timing chain guides with steel backing so it can't eat into the cover anymore.. They chain usually will have been making alot of noise and been slapping for a while before they eat through the cover.. Alot of people just ignore it or don't notice because the noise will go away shortly after startup once the tensioner has taken up the slack. They will still run fine of course so people just keep driving. Most people consider the trucks overall quite reliable.. the timing chain is probly the biggest downside and taking care of it is pretty well known now. Idk why but it seems alot of the rebuild engines don't last for shit.. They hardly ever last half as long as well maintained OEMs and I've seen engines from all over the place used. I think it's a combination of people using cheap parts, milling the head or blocks too much and then the timing chain is never right again things like that. Idk it might be that people just aren't willing to spend too much on rebuilds either so the companies try to keep the price down, who knows.
Another big problem with those trucks was the turn signal flasher. The reason for the hidden fuses and relays. The truck is going to a world market. 👍👍
