Thread: Toyota to replace the V8

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I thought the best-sellibg 4wd in the world was the Nissan X-Trail, but I don't have time to search for the figures right now.

I also thought the y62/amarda out sold the 200 world wide.

Originally Posted by rar110

I was talking to the ZF workshop in Sydney who do the rebuilds, about frequency of failure of 6hp26, including the Ford 6R80 equivalent. There was a huge range in terms of km done at time of failure, eg a taxi on original box had done close to 1 million km.

Mechanical parts on taxis,just like trucks often last a long time because they are on the road all the time and don’t cool down.

It’s the cooling down and warming up of engines,gearboxes,diffs,etc that wears them out.

Yep, gotta agree with that. My 2006 TDV6 D3 has 528,000kms on it. It was used by a tourism operator doing big Km's every year running people up the West Coast of WA, so it effectively has taxi mileage on it. It is still in very good condition as it was religiously serviced - not only because I bought it off the Baptist Church who were the second owner! As far as I can tell from the records I got at sale time, it still has the original engine, transmission and gearbox.

FWIW i saw the second current shape Hilux burning oil badly this morning.
The first was two weeks ago and continuously burning for 20 highway km, this morning's ute was emitting big, big clouds of blue on each gear change.

Not something I'm used to seeing from a Toyota....

My faulty DPF have caused both those issues in the last few weeks - sometimes clouds of blue smoke on gear changes or acceleration, other times a continuous blue haze out the back for half an hour. Since the DPF ‘overhaul’ conducted last week, it’s clean as a whistle again.

Originally Posted by rick130

Not something I'm used to seeing from a Toyota....

You are joking aren't you - any Toyota diesel I follow no matter whether old or new is usually belching out black smoke if under any sort of load.

Originally Posted by 101RRS

You are joking aren't you - any Toyota diesel I follow no matter whether old or new is usually belching out black smoke if under any sort of load.

This was blue oil smoke Gary.
Looked like oil smoke.
Smelt like burning oil.

Diesel smoke is something else entirely.

Originally Posted by Homestar

My faulty DPF have caused both those issues in the last few weeks - sometimes clouds of blue smoke on gear changes or acceleration, other times a continuous blue haze out the back for half an hour. Since the DPF ‘overhaul’ conducted last week, it’s clean as a whistle again.

Until next time.