5.7 engines starting to come in with head gasket fails

Was watching YouTube “Car Car Nut”


Great guy with intelligence.

he is getting a lot more tundras and GX and LX and Landcruiser 5.7 engine with blown head gaskets.
And if the block is warped out of spec it’s a new block and labor and other parts at $22k.
Most of these vehicles are higher mileage and not worth putting $22K into because they are not worth that much.
His suggestion is to change radiator fluid or antifreeze every 50K.
Peace. D

 

Here we go again

 

If we were 3rd gen owners - we'd cry about:

1. Toyota hasn't said there is a head gasket problem so this is just internet speculation.

2. it's an old video that has been discussed here at length.

3. changing the coolant every 50k is already part of Toyotas recommended maintenance.

4. you don't even own a 2nd / 2.5 gen. Your presence in this section of the forum is a result of your deep rooted jealousy towards 2nd / 2.5 gen owners.

@Breathing Borla - how'd I do?

 

lol, you're coming along nicely.

I look forward to completing your training in person over beers when we're fishing at 30 mph trolling speed in the blown V8 beast.

Toyota's claim to fame way back in the day was head gaskets, even the ol 22RE, the most reliable thing ever made.

 

sorry OP. Thanks for the coolant change PSA.

 

You forgot to add #5:

5. My truck has 15,000 trouble free miles. Thereby proving that there is nothing to see here.

 

Im in the, I hope my shit doesn't blow up but I love the truck camp, lol.

 

Hell ya man
10 yrs we'll all be driving 3rd gens the 2nd gens will still be going strong like the 1st gens today
Imo I'll be surprised if theirs's a 4th gen na tundra

 

I too hope yours and all the other 3rd genners trucks don't blow. I was just commenting in regards to how absurdly low the bar is at times when 3rd Genners tout their number of trouble free miles.

Could you imagine getting on a forum in 2010 to boast about how reliable your 2008 Tundra was with a whopping 30,000 miles? The 1st Gen owners would have a field day

 

Read an article today about a Toyota 4cyl putting out 600hp.... Target is the little GR yaris possibly a future MR2, the GR86......

 

for sure, that said these haven’t been out long so there really isn’t many trucks with a lot of miles as far as Toyota standards go for a lot of miles, so we’ll see what happens when the mass of trucks gets up there. Could be great, could be ugly

I’m a 1st gener, 2nd gener, 2.5 gener, and 3rd gener., so im immune to all, ha!

one of my favs was my 2001 trd. Luxury sport access cab, thunder grey. I also had one of the very first tundra out the in late 99 as a 2000, as my old man was pretty high up in Toyota motor distributions.

 

sounds fun to me

We had the MR2 with toyota charger on it and also the newer one with the turbo back in the day, fun for sure. also the TT supras we had.

toyota isnt new to this, well see how it plays out.

I still have the original supra TT t-shirt and dealer brochure in the basement with a big stop watch on it and 0-60 in 4.6 on it

that was fast back then, damn used to smoke mustangs and comaros , etc.

loved that short throw 6 speed manual in those

 

is car care nut the guy that says things like DON'T BUY A LAND CRUISER FOR THIS REASON and the reason is something dumb like you need to change the timing belt every 90-100K

 

He’s generally actually really spot on. And yes the failures have become prevalent on EARLY 5.7s and they all tend to stem from poor maintenance history.

just drive the truck and maintain it. It will do fine. In 11 years at the dealer I’ve only ever seen 2 5.7’s die that weren’t from jiffy lube forgetting the lube