The Diesel Boys Maintenance Thread *4x4/4x2*

[Fire_Fighter786]

Who knows the price of a Basic 4x4 Triton in Diamond?
And what does it come with?
Saw one today in BP car park POS. in dark grey..thing look good boy..

[roadhog]

mighty, for the turbo timer u could prob check qwkwhip on the forum, or sheriffs. N.B. i not from south so i might not kno where has the best price but i think about $800- $850 is a good price .

[roadhog]

i did my third oil change yest. changed oil and oil filter as well as the airfilter. i bought a fuel filter as well but when i open the box they say change every 40,000km so oh well i no where near that. i'm sticing to the castrol turbomax gaurdian 3 and change my oil every 5000km as well as maintain all original parts.
chose to stick to the 5000km oil chnage becasue i use my vehicle all day everyday and i feel alot safer with it, knowing that de badjon is well maintained.

[SNIPER 3000]

[quote="sweeks"]Wagon_r... thanks for the update.

Sniper... Could you let us know how much half tank is in terms of litres. It sounds impressive. We've recently been calculating mileage in terms of km/l. Having the a/c off helps but it shouldn't reduce power output significantly on a good working engine.

So here's my record on mileage
1) 29th april 565km took $40 diesel slightly under quarter tank
2) 5th may 480km took $38 almost quarter
3) 9th may 345 took $27 half tank
4) 13th may 486km $37 almost quarter tank.

[Greypatch]

hear what peeps

ah using castrol turbomax (black bottle) in de van

when ah change oil every 5k ah finnd de body almost non existent
now the oil (new) eh all dat thick to eh.

ah thinking about changing every 4k now

since is penal to pos every day

[sweeks]

Patchie....is this your first diesel? When you change diesel oil, after two days, it gets black again.

IMHO 5000km is good man. In my previous hilux (2L engine) I ran oil to 6000km, did 187 000km and never had a problem.

Now with the SR5 I'm running fully syntec (mobile delvac1) to 7500km with no problems either.

What's your mileage? Would you want to give full syntec oil a try? After 5000km it'll look the same but syntec has lots more detergent so you can run it up a bit more. Another option to try a slighty heavier body oil.

[sweeks]

Sniper.. those figure looks excellent man... I take it this a non turbo.

You're averaging 20 km/l where as I'm averaging around 8.5 km/l, then again I driving a 3.0 turbo 4x4.

[SNIPER 3000]

Yeah it's a non turbo....cd17 b13.

[bleedingfreak]

[quote="SNIPER 3000"]

[anil_bad2dbone]

how do you know when the injectors need cleaning on a diesel engine???

[bleedingfreak]

[sweeks]

Anil.... I've never had to service diesel injectors... my mechanic told me that they don't need servicing as much as those in a gas engine....what need servicing after a significant amount of mileage (150 000 - 200 000km) is the fuel pump. I've never done it but I'm assuming the injectors would be serviced when servicing the pump.

I'm not sure if the other guys may have different thoughts on this.

[bleedingfreak]

[mighty]

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[bleedingfreak]

[Fire_Fighter786]

[Fire_Fighter786]

[bleedingfreak]

Saied, just call Diamond Motor nah boy...

[sweeks]

Sorry Saied..didn't see your post before....we recently wrote an exam that would qualfy us a Project Management Professionals. It's a certification that's being asked for more and more. It's by the Project Management Institue and endorsed by the International Institute of Learning.

[roadhog]

mighty,
it they could do it we could do it!. just bear in mind the loacal models are 2.5 vs the thai 3.2 there will be a difference in power of course.

[roadhog]

oh btw any one might be interested in a roof rack? like what all the vigos and tritons driving around with? let me know i have one sitting down here

[SNIPER 3000]

Fellas help meh out here nah, it's about driving gears... where is the "kick down" on this thing is.....today i was overtaking i was on 4th gear and driving about 30-40km so i tryed to over take but it was not as fast a an automatic...i was not expecting that almost run into a truck , how you all does do it on what gear ?

[roadhog]

^^ gear down buddy go back into third and mash out.

[roadhog]

or at that speed maybe in to second. but try third.

[SNIPER 3000]

[KiD]

^^ hmm sounds like you need some experience driving a manual. its normal but you need to have ur foot on the gas or else it will jerk back. you may need someone to show you. basically an automatic does the same thing it gears down and applies the gas whenever you mash down. in a manual you control everything manually.

[sweeks]

Sniper with regards to gearing down and gearing up refer to your manual for max speeds for the various gears. If you're doing 70km/h and you gear down from 3 to 2nd and the max speed for 2nd gear is 60 km/h, the vehicle will jerk, the rpm will run up and in extreme cases you run the risk of locking up the 'drive' wheels.

If you don't have a manual, then you need to feel out the gears and at what speed they work best.

As Kid says it comes with experience... it took me a while before I got the gearing right....because the gearbox and ratios was different to my previous 4x2 lux. I listen to my engine when I'm gearing up or down, and usually glimpse at my RPMs.

Practise gearing up and down at various speeds for the different gears. But please note that your gear box is use to control the gears and not used for extreme slowing down. Brakes pad are cheaper than a gearbox and clutch parts.

[equipped2ripp]

sweeks, dem n00bs

[bleedingfreak]

I feel I staying out of this one yes

[323_wagon_dude]