7-AFE Engine

I've never seen a coolant drain on the engine block in a Toyota. AFAIK, the only drain is on the radiator.

I haven't done it in a few years, but IIRC its in the front of the engine near the oil filter. I also think its my Corolla that has the 1/2" square drive in the cap so you put a socket wrench with 8" extension straight into the nut, but that could be my wife's Honda.

"Ray O" wrote in news:e11a4$44242e99$44a4a10d$ snipped-for-privacy@msgid.meganewsservers.com:

Ray, I'm surprised at you here.

As far as I know, *all* Toyota blocks have at *least* one drain. (Do the V6s have two?)

My old T-series engines all had one, as did my sister's Celicas, our MR2 and my wife's current Tercel.

I learned something new today, on my way to becoming old and wise..... instead of just old! ;-)

We always had Haynes manuals for our car when we could get them. They showed where the engine block drain was.

Charles of Schaumburg

Since most places frown upon the practice of letting coolant flow down the driveway or into drains, I just take our vehicles into the local Toyota dealer and let them do the job for us.

In the early years of owning Toyotas in the South, we weren't so lucky. The 'Toyota' dealer was a GM dealer that had merely picked up another line. Had no real idea how to work on them. So we had to learn all this stuff ourselves.

Charles of Schaumburg

I left behind a collection of every factory repair manual for Toyota sold in the U.S. from 1983 through 1993. I suppose I should have kept them :-(

In 1980, the 'Toyota' dealer adjusted the valves on Dad's 2T-C engine. Cracked one of the valves because he adjusted them too tight.(We drove it that way for 18 more years and 180,000 miles.) In 1981, I had the 'Toyota' dealer in a different town try to sell me $600 worth of repairs on my 3K-C because it was using oil. They were trying to tell me it needed a ring job. That was at 48,000 miles and the old mechanical lifters had never been adjusted. I had brought it in to get the lifters properly adjusted. This dealer later lost his Toyota franchise and his son had to 'leave town', also. When I went to college, the nearest Toyota dealer was up in Hot Springs. He was OK, but I couldn't leave the car there for any repairs because I had NO other way of getting around at that point. Being an older college student has its disadvantages.

Charles of Schaumburg