Fredricks 1971 Corona MarkII

I'm not a big fan of the cheaper filter unless their motorcraft kinda funny cause I hate fords. I've seen a couple failures of our house brand filter at work (none hurt the engine but could of) And the lower level frams are constructed the same way cardboard and plastic except the frams have a metal tube. I have a habit of cutting filters open lol Gonna tear some Toyota filters open next lol

Friends don't let friend use Fram! AKA, the orange can of death! The best filter on the market is the Purolator Pure One. there are a few websites that will confirm this, and I have a story that others have experienced as well as to why to NOT use Fram.

I figured out a solution to one problem which was the gas tank
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A 5 gallon fuel cell i dbout ill really need more gas than that.
I also bought a power booster from rock auto its prolly wrong even though they say it fits to 9/71 mark 2's so we'll see how that plays out

My corona runs on its own fuel tank now which is nice, and the power booster turned out to be the right one. But the master cylinder turned out to be where the brake fluid was leaking now im waiting to be able to pay for that among other things so its just sittin waiting for more parts and a core plug change still.

I finally got around to pulling the engine again and taking everything apart.
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Heres the problem lol
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Thats a nasty one lol DONT RUN STRAIGHT WATER IN YOUR ENGINE!

Since the engines not in the car I drug it outside and washed the engine bay up.
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Its looking pretty good. All the paint and surface rust u see is where the leaking master fluid peeled the paint off.

Looks like it should clean up ok once you've gone over that surface rust.

Good work man!

I just sanded it down and put some black primer on it for now. I'm not gonna paint the engine bay til I do an engine swap someday.
But it Alive


Camera missed all the smoke it blasted out lol.
The leak was a easy fix too. Too bad I still have no brakes and everywhere that said they had a master cylinder dident. I ordered one from a place They havent told me that they dont have it yet so maybe im in luck. Rebuild kits are also a bust. I was able to get a water pump from autozone though. If anybody knows of places that got corona parts besides Rockauto and Ebay let me know.

Can you post some pics of the current M/C? I'm wondering if something else may be compatible.

Here you go. Its a strange one thats for sure. I've came to the conculsion that the metering valve and pressure differential are both built into this master.
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Let me know what you think. and thanks.

Two mounting bolts, and very odd looking!

The only other car that has one that will work i think is the 71 celica but the lines will have to be change and who know if the pushrod is setup right.

She may be on her way to a junkyard. My master cylinder fell threw just like I thought and im lost.

I have a question. I want to try to put a brake M/C from a 71 Celica on my Corona the Celica has a 13/16 bore and the corona is a 7/8. Will this cause a huge problem?

It might change braking feel, with it being smaller bore, but you should be just fine. Also, check napaonline.com. they have m/c's for 41.99 and 37.99. One is with a reservoir, one is without

You may also want to get the celica proportioning valve, since the mk2 is proportioned for a bigger master.

Ill worry about that after the lines a hooked up and the master is bolted to the booster. Napa has them for the celica?

Napa has the m/c to my 70 deluxe

Ya lots places have them for 70 or a 72 but 71 was a 1 year thing it must have been a piece of shit but it still worked for 40 years the only reason it went bad cause the car sat outside with the hood not bolted on with a crappy brake cap and it got water in it and swelled the seals out.

That's rough. You could possibly source one from a hilux

yes thats possible it has a 1 inch pistion though.

It'll just be more braking force.

The celica M/C bolts to my corona booter. The pushrod length on the booster had to be changed and the lines still need to be done but its looking like im gonna get brakes after all.

I manged to get the brake lines hooked up without changeing the lines just had to move the banjo fittings. The sad thing is though the transmission seems to have lost reverse trying to fix this thing feels like im kicking a dead horse. I think its time to say F**K the 8R-C and move on to swaping to a built 20 or 22r with a 5-speed.

I've had a built/cammed 22re, and it was still pig slow. Getting reverse back in the a30 trans is hell. You're going to have to rebuild it. Go for a 2rz or 3rz out of a taco.