Prado anyone?

[Enigma]

Received this in my email recently:

Dear Sirs,

I am in Sales at Peace Arch Toyota and I thought I would take a chance and see if you think anyone in your Coastal Cruisers Club would be interested in a vehicle we have just taken in.

It is a 1990 Land Cruiser Prado, EFI Turbo Diesel, right hand drive it is red and silver with a locking dif, power group and air ride seats. It has only 77,000kms on it.

This Land Cruiser is air cared until June 2007 and it BC Certified.

If you would like more information please call me at 604 789 1452 or email me with any questions.

Thank you very much, and I hope it is all right with you that I have taken this liberty.

Most Warmly,

Dawn Wittenberg
Peace Arch Toyota

 

[Stone]

Only if you like to rebuild heads for a hobby and drive real slow.

 

[crushers]

Only if you like to rebuild heads for a hobby and drive real slow.

actually that is a common misconception. driving slow can raise the EGTs faster than throttling it...
as for the head issue, i no longer argue this point. the facts have bit me in the wallet too many times...

 

[Stone]

actually that is a common misconception. driving slow can raise the EGTs faster than throttling it...
as for the head issue, i no longer argue this point. the facts have bit me in the wallet too many times...

How can that be true, Wayne? I just came back from a trip to the Kootenays that had some brutal long hills, and I drive according to the EGT's as indicated by my pre-turbo pyrometer. Under all circumstances, when you stomp on the throttle the EGT's go up...in some cases way up. Under all circumstances, when you ease off the throttle the EGT's go down. Of course this makes sense as you dump more fuel throttling up and less throttling down. Why would going "slow" raise EGT's faster...unless you mean lugging the engine, which in my mind is not the same thing?

 

[semlin]

it will happen if you are lugging the motor between gears which is easy to do with an automatic that selects the shifts for you. on a steep hill my 80 stays cooler at 3000rpm than at 2400rpm

 

[jcolvin]

Same goes for the A442 automatic tanny in my HDJ81. A sure way to get the temps up to 140 C is to lug it up hills. It seems to keep cooler at 2800 RPM+, rather than 2200.