The Toyota Previa Engine Revealed

After removing the passenger seat (4 bolts) and a silly thing (2 bolts) and folding the mat upwards, only to find another 9 bolts holding the cover, the rare sight of a Toyota Previa Engine revealed. For your viewing pleasure, and education, when it comes to replacing the sparkplugs. Thankfully, there are Platinum ones that last 60.000 miles or 100.000 kilometers. Ofcourse the man I bought this car from bought standard ones...leaving me with a bunch of problems. Hair musical Aquarius playing in the background.

NEWSFLASH: Four-tipped Platinum sparkplugs installed, got a sweet sound of a running clock now. The old sparkplugs cost me 1.35litre/10km (17MPG), the new ones should get it back down to 1.15litre/10km (20MPG). New oil and oilfilter, transmission oil will have to wait a little...

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Toyota
• Previa
• Engine
• 4WD
• Revealed
• Running
• Idle
• Hair
• Musical
• Soundtrack
• Aquarius

[TheLowey08]

Here in the UK we get Japanese import cars and you can get Previas with a I-4 diesel engine ( 2.2 liter ). They are great , not very fast but get over 40mpg.

[tellyehmaak]

but they are not called Previas to my knowledge, and are not as wide as the Previa. Atleast the ones I saw in UK.

[cant7think7clearly]

Why is the comments section for Previa's always so amusing? Hehe

So in my case I have to remove the drivers side (righ hand drive) to change the sparkplugs?

[tellyehmaak]

I guess you remove the same side seat I did, they didn't mirror the engine just to fit your medieval ways of driving on the wrong side of the road :)

Btw, my white devil is for sale :/

[cant7think7clearly]

Argh! I assumed you were American and probably just insulted you!

Apologies... Hey, since you've taken your Previa apart, any idea where the air conditioning Dryer is? (The little canister thing with the looking glass on the top)

Cheers! :)

[tellyehmaak]

I'm Swedish :)

My Previa got no airconditioning. If you plan on keeping your Previa a little longer, maybe you should consider getting a repair manual, I had a Haynes or something, it was really nice, until I misplaced it :(

[rtsoccerplayer]

is it just me or do previa's really have a distinctive sound?

[ronzilla3000]

I got 2 previas. they last 4ever.

[fanousontheloose]

@ronzilla3000 yeah man the lifetime mileage on previa's is like 350k or something like that, and they can endure so much i mean mine has survived a lot of desert trips

[fanousontheloose]

@rtsoccerplayer seriously once i heard him turn the ignition it sounded exactly like my previa!

[TheRollmann]

@2010mustang2 hahahahaha

[lethalphoenix]

@tellyehmaak

they are called Estima

[rkd350z]

anyone know how much to except engine swap on previa? my 93 just died...T.T

can anyone help?

and I was wondering how the hell do you change out the engine?

do you have to drop the engine and lift the whole body?

[willDANCEforPENNIES]

i love the music! lol

[dspsphacker]

Yes... The infamous whistle. Previas have been plagued with it for years. Even Toyota can't explain why they do it. It does not affect performance nor reliability. You can replace the exhaust and it will go away but eventuaslly it comes back. Many muffler shops have told me that they believe that the Previa's straight exhaust design could be the culprit. I actually like the sound. It looks and sounds like a spaceship.

[Seattlecarnut]

I've never owned a Toyota Previa. I've always found them to be interesting vehicles. The position of the engine doesn't seem to make for very easy maintenance.

[arnoldt14]

do previas have hydraulic valve lifters or what? I can't imagine adjusting the valves in that

[zainuintel]

@tellyehmaak yeah theyre callld Lucida