Well, I have finally gotten around to creating a thread about my Prado. The purpose of this thread will be to outline the mods and fixes I perform.
I bought the Prado in Vancouver, BC in early December, and drove it ~600mi home to Whitefish, MT the next day. It ran and drove great with the exception of a nagging problem with the torque converter not wanting to stay locked up. I intend to do what is necessary to fix the common issues with these to make it a reliable vehicle, but to leave it at that.
-New gauges: oil pressure, water temperature, boost, egt
-New, larger radiator fan
-Water-to-air intercooler
-EGR delete
-Transmission cooler
-New straight-pipe exhaust
Here it is doing its first proper work
And its first recreation
The first thing I did was install a mechanical oil pressure gauge, since the stock unit was not working properly. This required some custom work, because the gauge did not come with any metric adaptors to screw into the sending unit hole. I ended up cutting the end off the old sending unit and drilling and tapping the back to fit the standard adaptor that came with the gauge.
This ended up working really well, and I now know that my oil pressure is perfect.
I bought the Prado in Vancouver, BC in early December, and drove it ~600mi home to Whitefish, MT the next day. It ran and drove great with the exception of a nagging problem with the torque converter not wanting to stay locked up. I intend to do what is necessary to fix the common issues with these to make it a reliable vehicle, but to leave it at that.
-New gauges: oil pressure, water temperature, boost, egt
-New, larger radiator fan
-Water-to-air intercooler
-EGR delete
-Transmission cooler
-New straight-pipe exhaust
Here it is doing its first proper work
And its first recreation
The first thing I did was install a mechanical oil pressure gauge, since the stock unit was not working properly. This required some custom work, because the gauge did not come with any metric adaptors to screw into the sending unit hole. I ended up cutting the end off the old sending unit and drilling and tapping the back to fit the standard adaptor that came with the gauge.
This ended up working really well, and I now know that my oil pressure is perfect.