Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by John_D4

Is that a prospered rack? Looks cool. Why did you pick it over a rhino platform?

Yep. I was part of the group buy. The rock sliders and lca protectors are ProSpeed too.
Nothing wrong with the Rhino platform. The ProSpeed rack is virtually silent and the full floors turn it into a tropical roof.

Clocked 200,000km yesterday.

Got me thinking about the last 6 years of ownership of this capable (insert other adjectives here) vehicle.
Ive owned it since Sept 2014, second owner from new and it had 88000km on it when i picked it up.

Since then ive had the following:
- replaced front LCAs at 120,000km
- timing and hpfp belts replaced at 7years / 165000km
- replaced front left wheel hub (failed wheel stud)
- replaced primary turbo (failed actuator) and air control valve
- replaced secondary turbo (failed actuator/dashpot diaphragm)
- 2 sets of brake rotors and pads
- replaced air intake elbow and o rings
- replaced coolant outlet

Plus all the regular service items. Everything else is still original.
Imho the paint job on these cars is amazing, polishes up very well.

Ive added:
- Rhino rack pioneer roof platform
- led fog, drl and high beam infill lights
- led lightbar

And driven all over this wide brown land.
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Originally Posted by theelms66

Gumtree to the left of your winch would have been an ideal anchor point to get your left drive back to terra firma .

You can't tell from the pics, but the ground was sloping quite steeply towards the dropped wheel. Any attempt to winch upwards to the left could have tipped the car. As a shed with a Prado, an ancient Hilux farm ute and a tractor was within 10 metres, I didn't even think about self recovery, although I would have been able to think my through it. I carry a full winching kit including two snatch blocks and spare rope.
An immediate option would be, with a little help from Archimedes, to lever the dropped corner up and fill in the hole. This, of course, requires two people. On my own, assuming I couldn't find an overhead winching point like a sturdy tree branch to raise the dropped corner, I probably would have used the air jack to raise and fill inch by inch.
Thankfully, this has become an academic exercise, not a real one!

Originally Posted by DieselLSE

You can't tell from the pics, but the ground was sloping quite steeply towards the dropped wheel. Any attempt to winch upwards to the left could have tipped the car. As a shed with a Prado, an ancient Hilux farm ute and a tractor was within 10 metres, I didn't even think about self recovery, although I would have been able to think my through it. I carry a full winching kit including two snatch blocks and spare rope.
An immediate option would be, with a little help from Archimedes, to lever the dropped corner up and fill in the hole. This, of course, requires two people. On my own, assuming I couldn't find an overhead winching point like a sturdy tree branch to raise the dropped corner, I probably would have used the air jack to raise and fill inch by inch.
Thankfully, this has become an academic exercise, not a real one!

I’m a newby at recovery. Could you also have jacked the dropped wheel with a high lift and put max trak boards under?

Originally Posted by John_D4

I’m a newby at recovery. Could you also have jacked the dropped wheel with a high lift and put max trak boards under?

I don't like using high lift jacks as they are inherently unstable. Mind you, the new ARB designed ones look much better, but I've only had experience on the older ones.
My previous car (Rangie LSE) had a bracket from ARB which you attached to the ARB bullbar for the hi-lift jack to lock into. It worked well.
To answer your question, yes you could do that, but...
1. You would need a locking point on your bullbar for the hi-lift jack. Not sure if the Opposite Lock bullbars have that.
2. You would need to straighten the angle of the ground to the car before lifting. Hi-lift jacks should only be vertical. That is, not on any lean. (Yes, they can be used horizontally, but that's a different scenario).

That means, that before using the jack (or any jack for that matter) you would need to fill in the hole and make sure you had a sturdy and flat or angled as appropriate, base. As the car is on such an angle, you'd need to make sure the jack couldn't slip. You may need to manufacture some sort of wedge or secure mounting so the top of the jack would remain fixed to the bullbar. Then jack up just an inch or so and further fill in the hole and so on. This is how I probably would have tackled this if I had been in the bush on my own (and been silly enough to fall down a wombat hole!).
I carry an air jack, so I would probably have tried to actually jack up the wheel as I could get access to the lower control arm. With a base under the wheel, I may have been able to raise the car enough by the EAS and LLAMS to back out. Getting the rear left wheel to make contact with the ground would have been enough.

Received dreaded "reduced performance" in D4.
Ebay obd reader had no alarms, but in live readings, the MAP was at 4psi Atmospheric.
With rpm change, no change in the 4psi.
Checked sport & had 14psiA & revs increased pressure.
Stole sensor out of sport & placed in D4...... alarm disappeared.
New sensor & y manifold o rings from Rimmer Bros on the way.

Originally Posted by Bendys

Received dreaded "reduced performance" in D4.
Ebay obd reader had no alarms, but in live readings, the MAP was at 4psi Atmospheric.
With rpm change, no change in the 4psi.
Checked sport & had 14psiA & revs increased pressure.
Stole sensor out of sport & placed in D4...... alarm disappeared.
New sensor & y manifold o rings from Rimmer Bros on the way.

Soo..you keep a RRS for spares??

..beats my boys who have Patrol hulks here..just in case Dad😃

Originally Posted by DieselLSE

Getting the rear left wheel to make contact with the ground would have been enough.

No e-diff? E-diff + rock crawl may have allowed you to reverse out although the extra height of off-road height may not have been appreciated unless you had Llams or some other facility to allow you to keep the vehicle down at normal height.