Hey guys, went to use 4x4 yesterday and hello no action in the front. the green 4x4 light is on dash, both hubs locked still no go. i have had the truck up on a hoist and left idling in gear in 4x4, the driveshaft from transfer is spinning and making one cv turn on the passenger side however the ...

Hey guys and girls, Looking at getting some new feet for my hilux, currently have hankook dynapro atms on 7.5inch wide steel 15in rims, 31x10.5s. Going to upgrade to hankook dynapro MT's still in 31x10.5, Will also buy another set of rims so i can keep at's for summer driving. Does anyone know what ...

churchill wrote:One of these should fix you problems.

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Will price one up locally, maybe an option for the right price

The temp guage has it's own sensor. The ecu runs off a different sensor. Sounds like you may need a new thermostat I haven't seen a sensor fail, maybe with the trans oil running in the radiator before was enough to heat the engine coolant just enough. could be a sensor, thermostat is brand new. the ...

Interesting, Is this before or after the sensor? I have had the temp gauge mod done so if this is the case and its after the gauge then thats my problem?? funny because its only started since putting trans on stand alone trans cooler....??

cheers zukmeista thats a good idea, will try resistor trick first see if that works. just need to know what resistance is on the temp switch when its warm got to be on the net somewhere! no derk i have completely bypassed the radiator as i have a manual radiator fitted. this is how my problems arose ...

hey guys, fitted an external trans cooler to my surf and now im having a problem of the trans not heating up for a long period. probably a good 10km before i get the final overdrive. Can anyone tell me is there a way around this, on other vehicles ive put a resistor in to trick the temp so it always ...

update, tested for electrosis, had .4v, which is apparently real bad, anyone know much about this stuff?? flushed system and now just 1.9v, re flush tomorrow and see how it goes

at the risk of sounding like an ass... It hasn't been mentioned but Seized radiator caps won't let the excess pressures even get to the overflow .. Just in case it's one of those missed the obvious situations .. Just trying to help. Hope you get the issue sorted ! I bloody hate overheating issues ...

to keep the problem in context a dodgy head or head gasket wont make welds on an alloy radiator crack or leak Was looking for an answer along these lines, so you would agree with me crap radiator? surely if head was cracked or head gasket the excess pressure would full up the overflow bottle before ...

Im starting to think shit radiators...
you guys think its worth chucking the truck in the garage and getting them to test head etc?

Also how do you test for stray currents?

Hey guys, Got a 94 surf, auto, done 210k with a bit of a story. After a few months of owning the truck original radiator started leaking. Replaced this with a alloy one. First allow radiator lasted 3 weeks and started leaking out welds. Replaced this with a fenix alloy radiator First fenix radiator ...

Awesome ill give them a call, also anyone know what the guys in nelson are called read and heard good things about them

Right we have the answer, swapped out my ecu with one from wreckers, first drive down the road and all back to normal, bloody rapt!
Will get all capacitors replaced in my one and keep it for a spare.

Thanks guys for all your help especially sig, appreciate it!

thanks for the offer but im down in the wellington region, was yours doing the same thing before it got repaired?

Hopefully will have another ECU to try tomorrow, will let you guys know how it goes.

reset ecu, another diagnostic, came back clean, took it for a drive, came home done diagnostic and still clean even though the problem is still apparent. its got me buggered someone out there must know the answer!

Just done it again this arvo, with ports te1 an e1 as per other document,
got 3 codes.
6 blinks, pause 2 blinks
6blinks, pause 3 blinks
6 blinks, pause 4 blinks

I done the diagnostic check yesterday and got constant blinks meaning nothing is wrong, this was doing it another way with a list i found on a prado site, will try it this way to but what is a SST? just a peice of wire or something in between? cheers

Have checked all capacitors for leaking/expansion, 1 was leaking so that has been replaced today, along with the other smaller one on top board as apparently thats the auto side of the ecu according to uncle google. Still experiencing same problem, will do some more googling and see if theres any ...

Ok, so far have tried another dash cluster without any mods done to it, still the same problem, pulled out ecu and took off covers, noticed one of the capacitors had a bit of corrosion around one of the pins, but no other sign of wear no burnt tracks or black marks any where, but all the googling i ...

speedo is working fine, everything else seems to be fine no dash lights of concern etc. been reading about the capacitors on the ecu, might have to rip that open tomorrow might be a bit of a coincidence. hoping its not the trans...

Hi guys, recently had the speedo cluster out of my surf to do temp gauge mod (done by auto sparky not d.i.y) After the speedo was re installed its like the vehicle now has no over drive or its in full time low box, takes ages to change into 2nd gear and no top over drive after 80kmh like before, any ...

all on there, went pretty well cutting holes was a mission, well lining them up. also template was about 10mm out, but just slotted holes and fitted up fine

hi guys have purchased a snorkel for my surf just waiting for it to be delivered now, any helpful tips on installing it? 1kz in surf, any info be helpful as ive never installed one before.

cheers

Hi team, I have here a full alloy redline raditator to suit kzn130 surf, only trouble is it has two TINY pinhole leaks in a couple of the welds on bottom of radiator, does not lose large amounts of coolant but enough to need repair, has done about 100k i bought from redline and then discovered leaks ...

im in wairarapa, with kzn130 keen to arrange something, pm me if interested. cheers

good to hear, let us know how it goes on the beach. cheers

the fenix radiator has been awesome so far, with old radiator and no trans cooler i would foot flat the old girl up big hills and itd slowly creep into the red on temp gauge. now with the combination of trans cooler and fenix radiator i can floor it up even bigger hills over take people on passing ...