Date:         Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:14:28 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: [LCML] Stupid Diesel Idea of the day NVC
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>its actually FJ40, but the way to go about diesel powering a toyota
>truck would be to use the very robust, durable and available all
>over the world (except the poor US)--toyota 2.4L toyota 2L-T motor
>or one of the other diesel engines that came in a land cruiser from
>the factory (like the 3B). check out:
>
>http://www.off-road.com/tlc/body_styles/
>
>for every body style and engine choices.
>
>I'm going to be doing a FJ60 to diesel here fairly soon (winter more
>than likely)
>
>sorry for no vanagon content--just spreading the werd.
>
>mike

The 2L-T is a turbo and is notorious for dropping valveseats
(Toyota's one unreliable engine). The atmo 2L however is a fine
engine, but the 3L 2.8 would be better and gives similar performance
to the 2L-T. The 1L 2.0 would be too small.

The L series was never offered in the Cruiser, only in Hiaces,
Hiluxes and Corona Mk 11 (=Cressida, Chaser, Cresta).

The 3B 3.4 isn't a bad old engine but it IS old, and low on output.
Work turboed a 3B in its FJ60 Wagon... buy, did it go... until it
started breaking things. Eventually it was ditched for a 13B and we
never looked back.

Critical with any turbodiesel is to fit a FAT exhaust to dump waste
heat which otherwise builds-up in the head, with eventually disatrous
results. We just had the "perfectly good" factory exhaust on our 3C-T
2.2 Estima (=Previa) replaced with a 3" system for this reason...
otherwise a cracked head would been inevitable. Now, I'm planning to
fit a 3C-T to my 89 Corolla diesel wagon... it should go all right,
eh?
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut