1972 Toyota Corona Service and Repair Manual

The 1972 Corona is a narrow target. Toyota sold it that year as a two-door hardtop, a four-door sedan and a four-door wagon, each available with the standard gearbox or with one of two automatics that are told apart by their transmission manufacturer code, 03-55 or A30. The service and repair manual is matched to that year's car, so the figures in it are the ones Toyota set for this Corona and not values carried over from an earlier or later one.

Engines

• 2.0L inline-four (18R-C, 120 cu in) — SOHC, naturally aspirated, gasoline

Trims

• Base, 2D Hardtop, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD 03-55
• Base, 2D Hardtop, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD A30
• Base, 2D Hardtop, Not Available Trans
• Base, 2D Hardtop, Standard Trans
• Base, 4D Sedan, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD 03-55
• Base, 4D Sedan, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD A30
• Base, 4D Sedan, Not Available Trans
• Base, 4D Sedan, Standard Trans
• Base, 4D Wagon, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD 03-55
• Base, 4D Wagon, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD A30
• Base, 4D Wagon, Not Available Trans
• Base, 4D Wagon, Standard Trans
• Base, Not Available, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD 03-55
• Base, Not Available, Automatic Trans, Trans Mfr CD A30
• Base, Not Available, Not Available Trans
• Base, Not Available, Standard Trans
• Mark II, Eng

Known issues on the 1972 Corona. One recall is on federal record for this model year, and it covers the gasoline fuel system's storage tank assembly: the fuel tank could develop corrosion from a mixture of road salt and water in the luggage compartment, and that corrosion could create a small hole in the tank. Toyota has issued 3 technical service bulletins for the 1972 Corona.

On a surviving car, that history puts the tank and the luggage compartment around it high on the inspection list, and it makes any driveline work depend on which unit is actually bolted in: the standard transmission, or one of the two automatics identified by that Trans Mfr CD.