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    So I got one

    Picked up a 300tdi today, rode my bike down to pick it up as you can see.
    Has done 114,000, drives beautifully (better than a modern Prado I hired a few months back while on holiday), it has some rust that I can fairly easily fix up.

    Anyway, besides basic service (filters and fluids) and a timing belt change what else would you folks recommend as preventative maintenance. Think I've heard tail shafts mentioned?
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    Just grease every nipple on the drive shafts and check them for excessive slop. At that mileage they should be in excellent order.

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    114k !
    That’s a good find.

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    Nice find.
    Put some grease on the front drive flanges, and fit some form of temperature monitor. I personally use the "engine watchdog" ones.

    Steve
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    definitely nice find.(curious how much too, with such low klms)

    As already said, coolant or head temp gauge, and also I'd recommend an EGT gauge too.
    Arthur.

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    overheating kills them, check the radiator and water pump , belts as a hot summer is coming up


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    Quote Originally Posted by AK83 View Post
    definitely nice find.(curious how much too, with such low klms)

    As already said, coolant or head temp gauge, and also I'd recommend an EGT gauge too.
    Thanks everyone. I'll check out temp monitors, I had read about them so will take your advice will do all belts while I'm at it.

    Picked it up $3,500, bought it off the estate of the owner. It had not been driven much over the last few years due to the previous owners health.

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    Wow. Amazing find. I saw a similar estate car a while back. Had 40 odd thousand on it. Good price. As mentioned, go through the whole cooling system with a fine tooth comb. A good temperature gauge for coolant or head is a good idea. EGT probably ok but more so if you tweak it. I would say above all else is to fit a low coolant alarm. You can pick them up pretty cheap and easy to install. They are called engine saver. So go through cooling system and then fit low coolant alarm as a matter of priority. Then check all other fluids and grease etc. by other fluids i mean drivetrain stuff. Engine oil I assume you have obviously checked already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fausto79 View Post
    .... EGT probably ok but more so if you tweak it. ....
    I got my D1 in really nice nik. just a general steam clean on the interior and it came up basically perfect.
    Car had been well maintained, and the chap I bought it off maintained it and did a fair job for the RWC too(ie. quality parts, not cheapo).

    But I quickly found, without any tweaking EGT was quite high, AND it was very sluggish to boot.
    Anyhow, turned out that both mufflers were blocked up, so very little boost, hence the sluggishness.

    Got a high flow exhaust made up, and this dropped EGT massively (basically from 700+ down to below 500) .. that's when I started tweaking(both FP and boost, and fitted a boost controller).
    Got tired of the droning and had a 'quieter' rear muffler fitted, but that increased EGT again by 100°C over the same test roads.(my bad, will try to sort that one day, but not important for now).

    FP tweaked again, and I'm now happy with the balance between driveability and temps.
    Arthur.

    All these discos are giving me a heart attack!

    '99 D1 300Tdi Auto ( now sold :( )
    '03 D2 Td5 Auto
    '03 D2a Td5 Auto

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