i recently had to take my turbo of to replace it,and to my horror all of the water pipes had been butchered,pipes well to long & with nasty kinks in them,supprised it hadnt overheated and gone bang!! or at least the previous owner said it hadnt overheated,but then again he said it had been looked after by a friend of his who was meant to be a qualified time served mechanic (HA!! after seing some of the jobs he has done i think he must have been more of a monkey than a mech)as well as hoses being butchered half the bolts where missing some of the hoseclips where only just hanging on (didnt need to losten them in order to remove them)as i said in a different posting in the old BOK the engine was well neglected(oil like treacle and the fuel filter had a distinctive red colour to it inside (running on red diesel somewhere along the lines ?)also he was meant to have replaced the turbo only 3 months before i got the vehicle, he even managed to butcher that.2 of the manifold to turbo bolts where ready to fall of(not the back 2 that are aqward to get to but the easily accesable 2 front ones)also exhaust manifold had been changed and what a supprise half the bolts wernt the correct ones(roughly half inch to long and packed out with lots of various sized washers).

now that i have gone off track what i was after is either some pictures or a parts diagram if poss of all of the heating/coolant pipes and also the oil breather pipes etc so i will have something i can trust in order to make sure they are all going back on in the correct places(i did take a couple of photos and marked a couple of the hoses before i started, but i dont know if they are correct after some idiot has been mauling under there and if where incorrect i dont want to put them back where not meant to go.i got my copy of the engine manual last week but it doesnt show any of the pipe runs in it. thanks for all your help as i would have been lost if it wasnt for this site, and after this knightmare i think i will probably be calling on you for further help.
i will also post this on the old BOK as i have noticed a lot seem to still be using the old site rather than this new & improved one,if this is not the way you want it done then let me know so i will just post to one of them in future.
before i go the vehicle in question is a 1990 automatic 4x4 toyota townace super extra 2.0 turbo-diesel
- (#2025) jason, 30 Jun 05 19:05

forgot to say that i got the manual for £7.24 as there is no V.A.T on books,deffinately money well spent & if anyone hasnt got one they should run out & get one as it is full of all kinds of usefull inmformation

- (#2025) jason, 30 Jun 05 19:10