1972 Toyota Crown Service and Repair Manual
What separates one 1972 Toyota Crown from another, as far as a repair procedure is concerned, is the drivetrain it was built with. Toyota's fitment data for the year splits Crowns into automatic and standard transmission cars, keeps a third group whose transmission was never recorded, and further separates cars carrying the engine designator M in the VIN from those with no engine character listed at all. Matching your Crown to the right line before you start is what keeps you on a 1972 specification rather than a figure carried over from an adjacent year of the platform.
Trims
- Automatic Trans
- Not Available Trans
- Standard Trans
- Eng, Automatic Trans, Eng VIN M
- Eng, Automatic Trans, _NA_
- Eng, Not Available Trans, Eng VIN M
- Eng, Not Available Trans, _NA_
- Eng, Standard Trans, Eng VIN M
- Eng, Standard Trans, _NA_
Known issues on the 1972 Crown. NHTSA lists no recalls for the 1972 Crown, and no owner complaints or technical service bulletins are logged against the year either. Federal records reach back only thinly for cars of this era, so there is no bulletin history to check a symptom against — diagnosis starts with the car in front of you.
Automatic Trans or Standard Trans, with or without the M engine designator in the VIN, the combination your Crown left the plant with is what decides which 1972 figures apply to the job.
