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

Fire_Fighter786 · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

Who knows the price of a Basic 4x4 Triton in Diamond? Rolling Eyes

And what does it come with? Rolling Eyes

Saw one today in BP car park POS. in dark grey..thing look good boy.. Twisted Evil

roadhog · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:11 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:16 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:11 am Post subject:

[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. Very Happy

Greypatch · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:41 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 11:43 am Post subject:

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

bleedingfreak · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject:

[quote="SNIPER 3000"]

anil_bad2dbone · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject:

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

bleedingfreak · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

sweeks · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

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bleedingfreak · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

Fire_Fighter786 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject:

Fire_Fighter786 · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject:

bleedingfreak · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:

Saied, just call Diamond Motor nah boy... Rolling Eyes

sweeks · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:53 am Post subject:

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roadhog · Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:11 am Post subject:

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.