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First up, I by no means am an expert on these engines. They were never offered in the USA, we have really only been seeing them here with any amount in the last few years as they get older.
I would like to hear from some guys overseas who have spent more time with these engines. That is the point of the thread really but anyone who has experience with them, by all means post up.
My background with diesels has always been Japanese diesels. This was Nissan for me in particular Patrols up until about 4-5yrs ago when I started playing and working on Toyota diesels. They are very similar from what I have seen. For Toyota’s I am familiar with 1PZ, 1HZ, 1HDT, 1HDFT & 1HDFTE. Worked on a 2H a bit as well but otherwise I am not familiar yet with the B-series or Prado stuff to much.
Anyways, in the last year we have been getting a lot of FT & FTE’s in the shop. Currently in the shop we have x2 FTE’s and x3 FT’s. Kinda cool for North America, or more to the point the USA. I know you Canadians have had access to these engines for awhile. Just in the last week we have compression tested an FTE and two FT’s. We are using the factory service tool for this and a Mac gauge. In the last few months we have also been assembling a OEM new but NOS FTE long block. We also have another FT in the shop we have swapped into a 67 45-series pickup. So we are getting pretty familiar with these engines, yet still new to them and haven’t been working on them for decades.
We have been learning them hands on, using FSM’s and reading online.
So what I would like to talk about here mostly is what are the issues you can expect to find on these engines that are used and old. Also some confirmation from others with more experience than we have with the FT & FTE platform that our feelings on the engines are correct.
I will post about each engine we have compression tested in the next few posts to give background and info on each. As well as our thoughts in my shop (I say our because we are a team of three currently) on why these engines are how they are.
All three engines are EGR equipped or two are and one it came to us with a recent EGR delete.
If you don’t know, here are factory compression specs;
-498psi standard
-356psi low end
-71psi max spread
Also in case you don’t know, these are zero clearance engines. A piston can kiss a valves on these and very easily. They take a fair amount of time to get into phase if you have to do that. You can only get maybe 5* out of the crank before you have to turn the cam in the process.
We have not done a leak down test yet on any of these three engines. Yes we could, yes we have the equipment to do that. No we probably won’t simply because compression tests have told us enough to know they all need tear down. We will very likely also find the issue on each one when fully torn down, which I will post in the thread at that time.
Cheers
I would like to hear from some guys overseas who have spent more time with these engines. That is the point of the thread really but anyone who has experience with them, by all means post up.
My background with diesels has always been Japanese diesels. This was Nissan for me in particular Patrols up until about 4-5yrs ago when I started playing and working on Toyota diesels. They are very similar from what I have seen. For Toyota’s I am familiar with 1PZ, 1HZ, 1HDT, 1HDFT & 1HDFTE. Worked on a 2H a bit as well but otherwise I am not familiar yet with the B-series or Prado stuff to much.
Anyways, in the last year we have been getting a lot of FT & FTE’s in the shop. Currently in the shop we have x2 FTE’s and x3 FT’s. Kinda cool for North America, or more to the point the USA. I know you Canadians have had access to these engines for awhile. Just in the last week we have compression tested an FTE and two FT’s. We are using the factory service tool for this and a Mac gauge. In the last few months we have also been assembling a OEM new but NOS FTE long block. We also have another FT in the shop we have swapped into a 67 45-series pickup. So we are getting pretty familiar with these engines, yet still new to them and haven’t been working on them for decades.
We have been learning them hands on, using FSM’s and reading online.
So what I would like to talk about here mostly is what are the issues you can expect to find on these engines that are used and old. Also some confirmation from others with more experience than we have with the FT & FTE platform that our feelings on the engines are correct.
I will post about each engine we have compression tested in the next few posts to give background and info on each. As well as our thoughts in my shop (I say our because we are a team of three currently) on why these engines are how they are.
All three engines are EGR equipped or two are and one it came to us with a recent EGR delete.
If you don’t know, here are factory compression specs;
-498psi standard
-356psi low end
-71psi max spread
Also in case you don’t know, these are zero clearance engines. A piston can kiss a valves on these and very easily. They take a fair amount of time to get into phase if you have to do that. You can only get maybe 5* out of the crank before you have to turn the cam in the process.
We have not done a leak down test yet on any of these three engines. Yes we could, yes we have the equipment to do that. No we probably won’t simply because compression tests have told us enough to know they all need tear down. We will very likely also find the issue on each one when fully torn down, which I will post in the thread at that time.
Cheers
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