Here's what to look for if you buy a Disco: a really good local towing company with 24 hour service. Make sure they answer the phone at any time you anticipate driving. You will get to know your local tow company drivers very well, so you might as well scope out the options, pick one you like...
On your fuel consumption: you say 460 km to a tank. How much fuel are you putting in and calling "a tank". Empty, the HDJ81 holds 95 litres. I doubt you are running to empty. You need to work out exactly what your fuel economy is in l / 100km or km/l or whatever figure you use. Also, with...
Hmmm. I'm not sure what the problem is as it works fine for me. But you can find it by looking for Outback Imports website and following the link there. I hope that helps.
This oil consumption or leak is definitely outside the avg for the 1HD-T from all the numbers I've seen. I don't have exact figures because every driver and engine is different but when I did a round trip from Vancouver to Regina and back last year I hardly burnt any oil and that was driving a...
This may sound really lame, but I just wanted to insure the OP that the problem IS solveable - all the windows in my 1990 HDJ81 worked perfectly after service - in my case all that was needed was to replace the window runs on the 2 fronts - so it's not an impossible task. The 80 series windows...
Ateb now has available HID lighting for the HDJ81 - the euro housings are about half of the cost of the HID's - it might be worth the extra money to go all the way to HID's. If I was doing it again, and ATEB had that option then, I would go for the HID's all the way, there is just no...
You can also write OME directly for advice - they are quite helpful. Another useful tip is that ordering spacers can be quite useful to level things up, as every truck is unique and no two ever seem to end up the same with respect to springs.
The standard HDJ81 fuel tank capacity is 95 litres. I never pumped in more than 92 litres and I thought I was going to run dry - in the middle of nowhere in Saskatchewan, almost every station I passed was closed - finally found one open selling fuel for more than 20c per litre more than the...
Or a 3rd gen 4Runner - not as hard core as a cruiser but still quite capable. Remember that you also need to take careful note of where fuel prices are heading...
The problem with the 40 is that for most it makes a less than optimal daily driver. Most people would not put up with a 40 as a daily driver, and on long highway trips, you will probably wish you'd rented just about anything else. That is unless you are a very unusual person. 40's are great...
Be very, very careful - 80 series landcruisers are complex vehicles that require maintenance which is not cheap. Turbo rebuilds, injector service, BEB replacement, DOT compliance, general service and all the other myriad operations these vehicles require, are NOT inexpensive. Even if you do it...
So in summary after correcting for tire size you are getting within a few % of what I averaged driving in the same place and probably under similar conditions. I suspect there is nothing wrong with your truck. If you want to improve your mpg you could go to smaller (stock) tires and keep the...
I'm just going by what I've seen on the West Coast and at Ateb, where I saw almost everything Outback brought over for about a year. Not one of those trucks had stock tires on them. Must be different suppliers fitting new tires? Actually at least half the tires looked used, as if they'd been...
Flex, do you have stock tires on your HDJ or larger than stock? What size are they exactly? If larger than stock, you are going further than you think you are. Post up your tire size and we can figure it out. In my experience VERY few HDJ's come from Japan in stock tire size.
To the OP, I understand your concern. After reading this forum, when I had an HDJ81, I became convinced there was something wrong with my truck. Keeping in mind I'm a numbers guy, I used calibrated GPS to determine my exact odometer conversion, and a long term average with consistent fill...
The FAQ at the top is a great source of information for these vehicles. I owned an HDJ81 for some time, and I have a friend who has had one for over 3 years. The question I would ask yourself is, do you really NEED an 80, or is it a very strong want? These are not cheap vehicles to run, and...
Wayne is right. When I thought my HDJ81 had a problem, most of it was just my driving conditions which comprised quite a few short trips. As soon as I used the truck under ideal circumstances, I got 26-27 mpg Imperial but most of the time it was 20 or so, sometimes less (winter driving short...
You ask a great question. The answer is, I don't think anyone really knows. It all depends on what the price of gas / diesel does. There are as many theories about where prices are going as theorists. IF the price continues to trend up over the long run, I think prices of SUV's will...