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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:31    Post subject: cracked head !! Reply with quote

hi everybody and merry xmas. ok then checked water level the other day and was supprised to find it was a little low so i waited till mr T opened today and bought 5 litres of the red premix £16 the rad took only about half a litre but i did notice that i had bubles in expansion tank when rad cap back on and running car doesnt overheat and seems to be running fine but ive got a real bad feeling about this any advice !!!!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 13:17    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you get clouds of white smoke/steam when you start it at say a petrol station ? If so that is a good indicator of a cracked head and what year as the earlier models were prone to cracked heads.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 13:18    Post subject: Reply with quote

not that ive noticed and its a 97 r reg
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 13:18    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doh just noticed your signature thing '97 landcruiser prado tx limited '
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 13:22    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does your heater work well in front and rear of LC ok ?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 13:24    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes perfect
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 13:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

Might be worth popping down to a garage and getting them to do a compression test on the cylinders and some can check if gas is getting into the system with a chemical dropper that changes colour if gas is there.
Hope all goes well chap !
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 20:12    Post subject: Reply with quote

im going to try and get it sniff tested but i think i already know the answer either h/gasket or h/gasket and head its gonna have to be parked up if it is because right now isnt a good time cash wise xmas and all the rest has left me wiped and i dont have a spare £1000 Sad
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 20:16    Post subject: Reply with quote

ive always sung toyotas praises. but its at times like this that you get a bit dissilusioned i take reel care of my prado but it seems they all seem to suffer with head problems. regardless of how you look after them  a real weak point on a great motor
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:01    Post subject: Reply with quote

boxa wrote:
im going to try and get it sniff tested but i think i already know the answer either h/gasket or h/gasket and head its gonna have to be parked up if it is because right now isnt a good time cash wise xmas and all the rest has left me wiped and i dont have a spare £1000 Sad


I ran mine for months with a cracked head and it worked fine - just needed toppuing up frequently. I had to be careful when towing though.

If you run the car 'light' you should be OK until better times.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 18:44    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi boxa, i ran mine for over 500 miles with a knackered head with the caravan on the back(not through choice) and i just took the rad cap off when it was parked for a long time or over night(stops the cylinders filling up as much as there's not as much pressure). yes you seem to be right about poor quality heads on the earlier ones but i know that the pajero's/shoguns suffer from the same problem. what i say is that if you have one from new and say 130,000+ miles later and some 10-15 years old, then it doesn't seem that bad to me if it needs a replacement head.i had to do an engine rebuild on my 2002 transit(2 years ago) 120.000 miles, it cost £1000 in parts.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 20:13    Post subject: head Reply with quote

yes i agree i could run it for a while but im just going to put it in my garage and pull it apart dont want the mrs cooking it up and making things worse plus it tends to push a lot of the coolant back into the expansion bottle resulting in low coolant in rad just got to bite the bullit and get stuck in Sad
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 15:05    Post subject: Reply with quote

well ive started to pull it apart ive checked water pump and its like new also checked thermostat opened fine gonna try to get head off in next few days im halfway there now anyway just hope i find something positive when i get it off
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 16:53    Post subject: Reply with quote

AM I mistaken or doesnt the toyota red have something in it that turns (yellow??) if contaminated with exhaust fumes - ie a cracked head.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 18:18    Post subject: Reply with quote

not that im aware of
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