Diesel Mechanic GTA Area

[Greg McNally]

Looking for help diagnosing a problem with my imported cruiser with the 1hd-ft engine. Its burning blue and not running 100%, it was looked at by a medium duty diesel shop and they found faulty injectors and a couple other small items, but aren't too interested in diagnosing further. Looks like I may need to do a compression test and or further diagnostics and I dont want to just try any random shop. My buddy on here found a post about Manny @ Lisgar Motors in Toronto, anyone on here have experience with them or another shop they'd recommend?

 

[VonclicasLX]

I take my lx470 v8 to Manuel /Manny at Lisgar Motors all the time, i see diesel trucks there once awhile.

Another option is candido at village auto on Dundas. Last week my lx470 was there for some work on the hidraulic suspension, and many people rave about this guys.
They are both portuguese, so they know about diesels

Village may have more tech and computers to diagnose specific issues. They recently replace a whole top end of a 1hz from a hzj79.

If you want to ask more questions, or even get help on diagnosing the issue, check the Facebook group, Ontario Cruisers.

I was just talking with a guy there that has a 1hdt. Several guys have them.

In that same group there's Dennis that helps with 80 series, and he did a 1hdtft swap on his 80 series.

None of the mechanics were able to figure out my suspension issues, I had to discuss with several guys on fb groups to help find the issue and then relay the info to the mechanics.

 

[Greg McNally]

Thanks for the pointers I'll check out FB and call those shops. I used to live a block or two from Village Auto, dont remember seeing many Cruisers there but that was 7+ years ago.

 

[VonclicasLX]

Yeah, they all generic mechanics, I see one rarely when i go to bento.

There's not enough of us around to be able to only work on toyotas, plus travel time doesn't help .

Only in bc you get that.

Like ebi cruisers, in the picture.