1990 JDM (right hand drive) Toyota Landcruiser Prado LJ78 EX5 (whew - what a mouthful). This truck is absolutely mint.
I'm rather in love with this truck, so it really breaks my heart to sell it. However, learning to fly is something I love even more, so I had to choose.
VEGETABLE OIL SYSTEM:
As an added bonus, it has a secondary fuel system (entirely independent of the stock system) which supplies cooking oil (SVO) to the engine. The basic premise, for those that don't know about this kind of thing, is that cooking oil isn't much different than diesel, except for its viscosity (thickness). The original diesel engine was in fact designed not for diesel fuel, but for peanut oil. To thin the oil to the viscosity of diesel, engine coolant is routed through a heater, a filter, along the fuel lines, and into the vegetable oil tank.
The vehicle is started on diesel until there's some heat in the coolant system, then switched over to SVO when the engine is up to temperature. Running on SVO is mostly invisible, except for a difference in the smell of your exhaust. Before the engine is shut down, it is switched back to diesel to ensure no vegetable oil thickens in the fuel lines.
The benefits burning SVO instead of diesel are that it is much better for the environment, for one, and it can be a much more economical fuel than fossil fuels. Bought in bulk, canola oil is cheaper than diesel. But the true benefit is by setting up a simple filtration system at home and using the (often FREE) used oil from local restaurants, for FREE FUEL. Filtering can be as simple or as complicated as you like, with one of the more common methods involving simply straining the oil through readily-available sock filters.
This kit consists of:
FAULTS:
The faults of the truck are very few - as it is quite mint. Mechanically it is flawless, however there are a few body faults as follows:
The truck is located in the Okanagan Valley, in Penticton, British Columbia. Delivery is available for reasonable distances, otherwise shipping is available at your cost and arrangement.
$14990 CAD
- 90000 KM
- 2.4L turbo diesel
- dual range 4X4 with electrically locking hubs and pushbutton 4-HI. The hubs have been recently serviced.
- AM/FM/CD/Cassette (stock)
- 5-speed manual
- seats 8 (rear three seats removed in pics)
- suspension seating on the front two seats, adjustable for weight
- super-cold A/C
- sunroof
- NEW items: tires (Michelin LTX), glow plugs, battery, turbocharger, block heater, fuel filter, air filter, and more
- non-smoker
- service history with receipts
I'm rather in love with this truck, so it really breaks my heart to sell it. However, learning to fly is something I love even more, so I had to choose.
VEGETABLE OIL SYSTEM:
As an added bonus, it has a secondary fuel system (entirely independent of the stock system) which supplies cooking oil (SVO) to the engine. The basic premise, for those that don't know about this kind of thing, is that cooking oil isn't much different than diesel, except for its viscosity (thickness). The original diesel engine was in fact designed not for diesel fuel, but for peanut oil. To thin the oil to the viscosity of diesel, engine coolant is routed through a heater, a filter, along the fuel lines, and into the vegetable oil tank.
The vehicle is started on diesel until there's some heat in the coolant system, then switched over to SVO when the engine is up to temperature. Running on SVO is mostly invisible, except for a difference in the smell of your exhaust. Before the engine is shut down, it is switched back to diesel to ensure no vegetable oil thickens in the fuel lines.
The benefits burning SVO instead of diesel are that it is much better for the environment, for one, and it can be a much more economical fuel than fossil fuels. Bought in bulk, canola oil is cheaper than diesel. But the true benefit is by setting up a simple filtration system at home and using the (often FREE) used oil from local restaurants, for FREE FUEL. Filtering can be as simple or as complicated as you like, with one of the more common methods involving simply straining the oil through readily-available sock filters.
This kit consists of:
- new fuel and coolant lines
- Racor 500-series centrifugal fuel filter, heated with engine coolant
- 2x Greasecar fuel selector valves, electrically controlled from the dash
- 26-plate flat-plate fuel heater
- heated fuel pickup in the rear of the truck, which fits into 17L vegetable oil "cubees". When not using vegetable oil, the pickup folds away into its storage compartment, leaving the system invisible.
- fuel vacuum gauge, to tell you when to change filters
- fuel temperature gauge, to tell you how hot the vegetable oil is as it enters the engine
- fuel shut-down alarm, which sounds if you accidentally shut off the engine without switching back to diesel
FAULTS:
The faults of the truck are very few - as it is quite mint. Mechanically it is flawless, however there are a few body faults as follows:
- passenger side mirror has a small chip in the housing
- "EFI Turbo Diesel Wagon" stickers on the sides are in poor condition
- slight scrape on driver side just in front of tail light. This has been touched up with color-matched paint, and is entirely unnoticeable.
- small dent in the rear bumper
- small ding from a daft parking lot patron in the rear passenger door.
The truck is located in the Okanagan Valley, in Penticton, British Columbia. Delivery is available for reasonable distances, otherwise shipping is available at your cost and arrangement.
$14990 CAD
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