....just bought another, my third. $1000.00 CAN for an 89 740 turbo, rebuilt engine with 140,000 km. on it. Why it was rebuilt, no one knows...I'm talking to the mechanic tommorow that serviced the car for years.

Anyways, I'd love to rave about how great a deat I got :>:>:>, but....I'm off the the parts places to grab new fluids, plugs, etc.

My question is : the oil filter is located in a different position than usual.

Normally they come perpendicular to the block on the passenger side, this one comes off at a 45. angle facing the rear of the car, passenger sie of the block.


What gives?

I noticed that the car has a Hall sensor of the disto, rather than the crank pos. sensor, but the door I.D. says the tenth month of 1988, so maybe it's an 88 engine?

Stumped, but loving it, Josh...

The Turbos did not sitch to LH 2.4 until 1990. The 89 turbo should have the Hall efect sensor.
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Paul NW Indiana '89 740 Turbo 110,000

Filter difference is due to the fact that the turbos have an oil cooler, with the adapter between the block and the filter.
Hall sensor was located on the distributor thru '88, so yes, the engine could be older than the chassis.

Shifted
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'87 745t 217,000; '93 Toyota MkII; '73 Suzuki Jimny (Brute) LJ20 360cc