Toyota Corolla DX 1.3L 1986 FWD *** NOW WITH PICTURES *** - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

gamatudo · 10-22-2006, 05:41 PM

hy guys!

new with toyota cars! but unfortunatly my grandfather died 15 days ago, is car the 1.3L Toyota Corolla DX with 4 doors, grey color.... is mine now, he gave it to me some days before he died...

i was trying to sell it, but no, iam gonna keep it... but it needs some adjustments... and there are some things i like to know!

iam from portugal (europe) i think the car is a little diferent here....

1st: how to i remove the back seat of the car?
2nd: i cant remove the radio, its a old one!
3rd: fuel gauge is down, dont show how much gas is on the tank! how to fix?

i will try to keep this thread alive, in some days iam going to post some pictures of the car, and how it is going with the works...

well, its everything for now, sorry for the english...

and thanks guys...

hope to get some news....

Bitter · 10-22-2006, 06:15 PM

1st find a junker or junkyard that has spares of your car to get things from.

now go find a fuel guage sending unit, replacing that will probably fix the fuel guage problem. the back seat...the bottom part should just pull up and that will give acess to a panel held with screws which when pulled will give acess to the fuel tank and the pump/sender unit.

the radio, i dont know this year. there may be others here to help.

***REN69*** · 10-23-2006, 03:06 AM

Post some pics for us to see what the car looks like.

gamatudo · 10-23-2006, 06:45 AM

hy!

thanks for the quick replys, iam going to take some pictures of the car and the radio, then i will post it here so you guys can see... maybe tomorrow

thanks

gamatudo · 10-23-2006, 01:38 PM

hy there guys and girls!

here are 2 pictures of my grandfathers car, that is mine now...
if anyone can tell me the model so i can do better searches,
only thing i now is that this is:

Toyota Corolla 1.3DX
1.3 Gasoline
Year: 1986
Front Wheel Drive

theres so much i have to do in this car, hope to keep with the help off all of you, because i will help on what i can...
thanks....

Bitter · 10-23-2006, 02:46 PM

it looks to be in very good shape!

BALIKBAYAN · 10-29-2006, 01:27 AM

Hi,
It is a AE82 or might be a AE86. I don't know the difference between those. You should buy the Haynes manual for that model. It is very good. You will find it at www.haynes.com :

***REN69*** · 10-29-2006, 01:41 AM

AE82 - FWD
AE86 - RWD

It's an AE82 sedan.

Kr0n1k · 10-29-2006, 09:26 AM

A very clean one at that.

BALIKBAYAN · 10-29-2006, 10:08 AM

Thank you for that information about the AE86.

Kanding · 10-29-2006, 10:28 AM

Are you Filipino?

gamatudo · 10-29-2006, 12:16 PM

hy there!

thanks for keeping the post "alive"

i was all the afternoon working on the car, and i think i solved the problem of the fuel probe.

here it is i got some pics

i dont know what was wrong, but i removed the probe then i clean it very well, put it back to is place, and the fuel gauge started to work...