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Waxoyl was just about all we had to choose from at one time, unless you had spraying equipment the faff with blockages and heating the stuff up (on the mrs' stove when she wasn't looking) only to find it would block the pipe and or nozzle anyway, never again. I found the best way to apply waxoyl...

Yes it probably was he, this was the first time i've used it as such, covered well and quickly. If you did that and nothing else, £30odd quid a year to keep the tin worm at bay seems a bargain.

I'm filthy hot and bothered. Just crawled out from underneath having completed this year's rustproofing. Exhaust sprayed with galvanising paint. All the nooks and crannies sprayed with ACF50. Whole underside and chassis cavities with chain lube* Hand coated the chassis in marine grease, rear...

Another forum i use is running really slowly intermittently, so far no problems here for me. Could it be a general running down to er 'encourage' the spending out of large sums to get windows 11. Might seem like a conspiracy theory but when all the other conspiracy theories have come true......

I looked at the Toyo A/T3, but they performed badly in wet braking and handling giving the longest wet braking distances of the tyres tested, i know you can't always go from testing alone but i want decent wet braking and handling, which to be fair the Yoko GO15 have been very good at, i'd have...

Those Kumhos have disappeared from Camskill's listing in 265/65 x 17, bet the price is considerably higher if they relist,'' another bargain missed'', should have been Christened with that name.

Bleed the brakes out by whatever method you prefer, it makes sense to have the pistons pushed as far back into their bores as possible, new pads is the obvious time to do this. If you were so minded you could jam the pistons fully closed which would see all but the smallest amount of old fluid...

It would be interesting to know if, following the recall work, owners find they now have a manual method of triggering regen, which i believe later 150 series came with.

That was the case some years ago Grimbo, but these days many AT's have the correct winter rating snowflake/mountain stamp. Yoko GO15 and the new 18, the Kumho 52s as mentioned in the OP, Falken Wildpeak and the new Vredestein ATs, i've seen several others too. have corrected my speeling of...

https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre-Tests/The-BEST-All-Terrain-Tyre-for-2025.htm Jon at Tyrereviews has conducted a test of 5 AT tyres. Couple of things interested me, one of which was the tread depth of the Falken Wildpeak AT4W (which i haven't yet seen for sale from the usual sources), i wonder...

Here's the link https://bilthamber.com/product/dynax-s50/

The big difference is that when Toyota drop a clanger they usually very publicly own up to it and do their best to put it right, including sometimes the top honcho making very public apologies, then they typically offer long term extended warranties on the problems for vehicles that might have...

Dropped the engine oil yesterday afternoon upon arriving home from work, engine hot the oil gushed out. Left it drain until mid morning today, inspected oil pick up which is thankfully clean as a whistle, refilled with Exol 10w40 Diesel specific semi synth, new Hengst filter. Some 2200 miles...

Ours renewed in January, with DL, both cars increased but after finding decent alternative quotes on MSE's comparison site a phone call to DLs excellent call centre soon had things back to reasonable. £286 this year.

Excellent. For next time you could keep these two things in mind. There should be a small drain hole at the bottom of the oil filter housing, should be a small bore pipe below this hole which ends up very close to the sump drain plug, if you undo the filter a turn or two the oil inside should...

Bilt Hamber cavity wax aerosols come with the best probes i've seen and used short of professional high pressure spray kit, have used them on several vehicles now, the diffusers never block up and are thin and flexible enough to get inside door skins and body sills and feed through the gaps...

Looks new, excellent job. Dirty engine bay you say, hold my late uncle's beer, he bought a new Vauxhall Viva HB back in the 70s and promptly pumped the contents of a 45 gallon drum of grease into the sills over the whole underbody inside the doors wings bootlid etc and every where he could...

I think many of us are waiting on the spring rains, a few days of journeys in the wet to soak the crud then a couple of runs through a long local ford followed by a good wash down at home. I have an L shaped lance for my pressure washer and can turn the pressure right down whilst still enough...

I suppose its possible for any electrical device to have an intermittent fault. Seeing as you've got one sitting on the shelf so to speak and presumably still having flat battery issues once in a while it makes perfect sense to change it and rule the alternator out as the issue. Mine failed a...

You're my/our hero keeping it away from the roads till the better weather and for doing what you are, dare say most of us here if we could aspire to a brand new Cruiser would get straight to some proper corrosion prevention, because well lets face it rust is just about the only thing that kills...

That chassis and tank protector look so good i'd have said the pics are from underneath an almost new vehicle. Talking of chassis black, back in the early 80s i drove for the best maintained fleet in the county and one of the best in the country, not splashing money about they knew maintenance...

Looks great, what's the next stage(s)

There is an issue with 120 gearshifts, the following is assuming Prado shifter is same as typical UK version of 120. There's a small steel pin and spring under the gearstick which runs in a plastic guide, this provides that clicking action as you go through the gears, also without the...

Good result, thanks for updating the thread. You now know one garage to avoid like the plague and one that's worth revisiting.

Yay, straight pass. MOT tester said he couldn't find anything at all its been really well maintained and to carry on doing whatever i'm doing to it and should last many years yet. Had a job to get me head through the door on the way out. :grin:

Got the T shirt, far as i can recall similar notes are on every MOT since i've had the vehicle (better than increasingly urgent advisories for corrosion), had the aircon repiped 2 years ago right through to the rear end, apparently the cursing from the bloke doing the job could be heard...

The brake master cyl/abs/booster/accumulator unit pictured looks very similar as those fitted to 120/100/150. Often if there's an issue its the booster motor itself going faulty, not saying that's the issue here but the error messages in the pic point in that direction. One or two people on...

MOT later in the week so MOT prep time. Stripped and fully serviced the brakes, all good for now, possibly need new pads at the rear in another 12 months and i'll renew the discs at the same time. Had it up on all 4 ramps so changed the diff and transfer box oils whilst convenient, also all the...

Toyota as far as i'm aware don't sell the master cylinder itself seperately, only as part of the complete unit (master cyl, ABS, pressure accumulator), but a quick look on Ebay shows numerous sellers of new aftermarket master cyls for 120 series of your year, circa £80. I haven't had to do this...

Are you sure its the master cylinder, rare enough itself but is it possible the motor which powers the accumulator has failed, if its that then Electric Motor Repairs, armatures, London, Rewinds, Robson and Francis - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club] are the people to fix that for you. If its...

Same as you Raj, 20 litre drums, cheap as chips.

I know nothing about the parts you speak of, but presume they are made elsewhere. I'm convinced makers in other, warmer, climes have little idea how damaging to vehicles damp climates such as ours and the excess salt used on our roads.

Yes a softer spring, presumably with adjustable air assistance, could make for a better lightly laden ride. But before you go down that road are the shocks as good as they once were and/or have the tyres gone a bit harder over time or as they've worn down has the shock absorbing effect of deep...

I don't think you're overdoing oil changes at all Raj, indeed is it even possible to do so. Looking at my own self service history can't find the last time any of our cars went over 3000 miles between oil changes, oil bought in bulk same with filters an oil change is £30/35 at most, pocket...

Our engines drain really well hence not easy to see the level and the oil stays clean for a long time, family BMW compact Diesel was the worse for draining, within seconds the dipstick looked like the oil had never been changed. My 20 year old 120 goes nearly 1000 miles before the oil turns...

Probably a very long shot, but back in my distant youth a workmate had an odd fault where when he applied the footbrake the side lights came on. Took some finding but it turned out to be a faulty 5/21w tail/stoplight bulb where the two elements were touching, possibly due to the bulb...

Presumably you have the added complication of DPFs Raj? Don't you need low saps oil with the appropriate C number, i've not looked at those myself as have so far avoided DPF but can you even get 10w40 in low saps spec?

What you say makes absolute sense. However twice in my various LC's i've found two different oils to result in the engines sounding like a bag of nails, not necessarily cold start but general running. First time was decades ago in my 3 litre 70 series, i put 15w40 (going from memory here) Comma...

Finding ours was pure luck. I wasn't looking to change the Collie for any particular reason but happened to be browsing one weekday morning whilst off shift, as you do, and the present 120 appeared at a motorhome sales centre, having just be traded in for a new motorhome by someone upgrading...

Yes, underbody is where its all at, underbody corrosion first mentioned in 2018, only a close examination to decide how bad. I had a browse the other day, quite surprised how cheap some 120's are being advertised at, a 2 minute browse on the MOT history soon explained, rust rust and more rust...

Direct Line don't feature on the comparison sites, i understand the same applies to LV. MSE's own comparison site proved very handy last month for this years renewals with DL.

They maintain normal height pretty well indefinately, so sounds like you have a leak in the system that side, either the airbag itself or one of the pipes its connected to. Get under and hopefully you'll be able to hear the leak, if not squirting some soapy water over the airbag and pipes will...

I'm not and have never been a fan of TG, but this video came up on my feed and it struck me as more relevant to most buyers because the testers were not offroad experts either, not trying to be clever dicks, no pointless races and no speedboat type footage through deep water. What was...

Toyota have more sense than trying in vain to make Diesel engines reliable and durable whilst meeting the increasingly ludicrous EU (which we never really left in any meaningful way) controls, Hino pulled back from Europe too despite being popular across the rest of the world which appreciates...

I've ended up coating the whole chassis in marine grease, which i also smear heavily onto the 120 inner sills which are exposed to heavy weathering at both ends and can perforate if left untreated, so far its working well. Whilst its thin and washes off am still spraying the whole underside with...

Dogman on Prime last night. Luc Beeson film (Leon), unusual and sad, worth the time.

Good luck Raj. I'm about as much use as a cow with a gun when it comes to computers, i couldn't even get the old Techstream to load or connect to the vehicle yet our handy IT guy had it up and running in minutes. Looking forward to seeing how it works for you.

I generally run 5W40 full synth in the 1KD and thats what went in the other day following cambelt and water pump change, it also goes in the Forester. When i first got the motor the engine oil would darken more rapidly than i liked following oil change despite it good SH, so i bought some 10w40...

I would have used Big Redd for the front calipers on the 120 but didn't want the vehicle off the road for a week or more. I offered the old ones here free in case one of our brethren wanted a pair to send to BR, or a still useable pair to get someone out of the mire, indeed soon had a message...

Don't know why but i've never managed to successfully reseal/rebuild calipers, invariably i've taken action on calipers due to a piston seizing too tight to do anything with, kudos to anyone who can DIY refurb, tried it several times and always end up with a leaking seal, so exchange or new...