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A decent engine reconditioners. Depends on where you are in the country, in the East I normally try Lyndale in Peterborough first & then Ivor Searle. Lyndale have more than once told me it'll be cheaper to go down the scrapyard as I'm looking at something with no known history of failure.

Might be worth checking that a plug lead hasn't gone or come loose - not necessarily as a result of changing oil (where you might have snagged a lead as you did the work), but I have known a plug lead that was a bit tired simply fracture due to the natural vibration of the engine.

You haven't said whether you spilled any oil over the engine when filling it up - could this be a factor?

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Checked that. I wouldnt have expected tick over to be ok. I was oging to replace all the leads some time ago but the cost was about £70. very deep weird things. would have had to made up acc to the shop

Checked that too, i always spill a bit........cleaned up tho.

Im not keen on refurbs, dont generally trust them, plus i dont think outside my car club i would find another engine.

Im hoping the damage isnt too severe.

Errm Hotwires fit & Halfords amazingly still sell them

Depends who you buy them off, there's a big difference between a remanufactured engine & a pile of pressurewashed junk bought near a big airport.

You won't get an engine but you might get the bits to fix the old one.

They might "fit", but they don't plug the hole like the originals are designed to do. If you want it to look original, there's only one way. And Toyota certainly know how to charge for things like that!

All of my Toyota engines, apart from a naff 80's design have been bullet proof so never had to get bits for them, so its new to me.

Had the odd head skimmed etc but found we decarbonising and good oil the pistons etc usually last way longer than the car.

tried them, i had to get the lenth and type of ends matched up. i had 2 wrong sizes at first off the shelf.

Toyota say they dont do them now, nothing close to the pattern, yes for my

I had to look in this catalogue thing and tray to match the ends etc. the ends have a seal mouled on the end to cover the deep drop down the rocker cover.

The weakest engine i came accross was the 21R from early 80's, i had a oil seal failure behind a pulley and Toyota wanted over 14 quid, in the end i went to city seals and bearing and got the exact same for less than 2 quid.