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Toyota 5L diesel

Tech Talk for Cruiser owners.

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Toyota 5L diesel

Post by dlux35 »

Toyota 5L diesel when going down the road and the timming belt breaks what sort of damage to the engine would it do??
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Post by it works »

lots
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Post by 4x4Monkey »

when the timiing belt is snapped the exhaust valves and what not would stoped and some may not be fully returned so mr piston comes up and gives mrs valve and hard fucking and mrs valve walked away walking funny

Garantee u would have damage just to wat extent is unsure until u remove the head and take and looksy
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Post by dlux35 »

Thanks guys not what I wanted to hear.but what I expected.
O well put the Diff lock`s on hold & fix the engine.

Any tips on were to buy parts cheap.
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Post by Modified Toy »

swap it to a 1KZ
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