22R Head Gasket

Well my friend had an 82 Cressida. Started blowing steam out the tail pipe. In garage worked all night to replace. Still blowing steam. Find out intake passage corroded. Have it aluminum welded and surfaced. Have some back yard mechanic put in. Lasted 2 weeks. Finally found junkyard head in beautiful condition changed bolts and rocker arm shaft and valves. I redid head gasket job. And now 6 months later no problem. Sometimes your head is too warped or thin or whatever. Look for a good head. Also if you find oil in water, on some toyota engines it could be chain wears through timing cover which puts coolant in oil, deceiving you into thinking head gasket, or block, or head crack. When removing head look for discoloration (cylinder not dark (and normal) like others) If you can't find problem could be rare timing cover problem. I have a 22re 1989 Toyota pickup, never did head gasket 220,000 miles. But if you overheat any engine it can cause any engine to blow and damage metal of head, warp.

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Thanks for the information. The first time this happened, it was cylinder three. This time it was cylinder one and four. I asked the mechanic to have the machine shop check number two since that was the only one left... :>))

I should have bought a new complete head from LCEngineering.com...

Apparently, when it overheats (which it did the first time), the head can warp and it usually leaks in #3 cylinder. This time, it was a bad head casting in cylinders 1 & 3. Mechanic said this isn't at all uncommon on the "22" series engines...