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what does the red turbo light mean??? i take it its some sort of warning light. i recently put a snorkel on an noticed it abit when i first drove it after that. thought it might be something to do with the two little things on the airbox that have vacume hoses going to them (some sort of switches???). the light soon went away bt now it has started coming back on again at about 3000rpm. there doesnt seem to be anything wrong with it. is ther a chance its coming on for no reason or is there something wrong?
cheers Pete

Hi Pete
when any lite comes on in any vehical take notice. The first action you should take, is to find out what this lite is trying to tell you. This can done easily by down loading the fault codes that are stored in the surfs computor. In the engine bay there is a diagosic port. Bridge E1 and T1 termanials this will bring up a series of flashes on the dash panel next to the turbo lite, which must be counted then cross referenced to the fault code. The codes are available of the net somewhere, cant rember where, but some one will jump in with them or post them as a permanite reminder. When you get that far come back and progress to the next stage
cheers

when the light came on the first time it was gone within a minute, now its back im taking notice. does my non efi 2lt have a computer/diagnostic thingy? had a compresion and leakdown test the other day, they didnt say anything about the turbo (do they check it? they asked me on the phone if it had one...), could they have possibly put something back together wrong?

The orange turbo light (beside the green one) is there to tell you the turbo is overboosting - this is a bad thing, especially on one of these motors.

Get it checked by a reputable Diesel place, or by Miles Toyota (in chch) or toyota wherever you are.

I had this happen to mine years ago and it was a simple fix, they replaced the waste gate actuator from memory, which was sticking.

It could just as easily be a sensor fault tho... you won't know till its checked.

Steve

all efi toyota engines have diagnostic plugs ,commonly found on the passenger side ,its only a little square grey coloured plug so look hard (close to air box)and youle actually be able to access fault code references by calling any toyota parts agent (that knows what there talking about)

cheers for that steve

diagnosic port is grey box, flip lid, can usally be found next to fuse and relay box right side inner guard. Some early hilux's, left inner guard by air filter

Looking at Petes avatar it would be a safe assumption we're talking about an early 3-door series-1 surf, non EFI T-Diesel...

Hence my using the old fasioned method of just knowing what that light means

Good luck with it, and for safety, drive it out of turbo range, ie: idle everywhere and don't go up hills

Steve

100% gaurantee its NOT efi.

100% gaurantee it has to checked by some one lites on dash are refered to as idiot lites as idiots guess at problem and ignor them

haha i like the old fasioned method, much easier. cheers guys will get it checked out in the next few days (start work tomoro, money is coming ). until then slowly she goes.

Would be worth while going to the Toyota Garage down Gorge road.... they are one of the few that will touch turbos...

gorge road qtwn?? if so then cheers i wasnt sure where to try, doesnt seem to be many places to choose from here. will hopefully get it sorted start of next week when i have time to get in as started work today (i love money!!! got a tip of $20 american today )

Gorge Road Queenstown yes, GWD Russels... just make sure they call you to approve any big jobs, they may be good, but they aint cheap...

damn lol cheap is my thing. i will probably just get them to tell me whats wrong then try and fix it myself.

jst an update. went in on friday and found it is the wastgate actuator. could save bout $100 fixing myself bt dont really have the time (and now i have some money) so its going in on tuesday to get fixed they have quoted me $200 so was less than i had budgeted for so im happy enough.