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Jake wrote...
You LC 80 drivers, what's your fuel consumption like? I wouldn't be
surprised if, even with the bigger engines, your fuel consumption is
lower.
SNIP
Jake sorry to say that you have one dog of an engine there especially if
you have a LWB. The larger but non-turbo 2.8 was just as bad. Find a
breaker's 3L turbo and then watch the thing fly. Have had 3L Prado's in a
fleet and that engine is a peach, even better than my 6 cylinder for punch.
(Plenty of 3L's from 4Runners at my local breakers :-D)
Anyway fuel consumption. My worst has been 14.31 L/100km (19.74mpg) on one
tankful, running around the city with a cold engine all the time and mostly
in 4WD - yes in the city the snow does not get cleared well and the ice on
roads is not treated. Also need low ratio 4WD to creep safely down some of
the mountainside roads in the city.
My best has been - and very few believe this - 7.28L/100 (38.8mpg) on a
soft right footed drive across autobahn Europe. Amazing but true.
A tankful 2 weeks ago on long trips in 4WD more-or-less all the time was
10.07L/100 (28.05mpg)
An average in normal varied weather with occasional 4WD, asphalt and rock
roads will be 9.12L/100km (31.25mpg).
All these are 70L plus tankfuls. I rarely ever fill with less than that and
it gives me a good average on which I can work out the consumption, usually
a couple of long trips and several 3 km ones to and from the office and
supermarket etc . (I keep the spare tank about a quarter full just in case).
Remember this is with a 12 valve basic HZJ engine with no extra bits and
pieces, manual box and part-time 4WD with FWH used as often as possible (I
am from a traditional Scots family ;-) ).
And Julian is right, watch-out for low sulphur fuel. If your handbook does
not specifically state that you can use it, then avoid it like the plague
if at all possible. We have had problems with injector pumps, though out
here we can never tell what the hell we are putting in the tank except that
it smells like the right stuff. We have - allegedly - low sulphur or 'Eko'
diesel but I never use it. I always use 'D2', the rough stuff trucks use,
in the belief that it must be less refined therefore full of sulphur and
lubricity of some sort or another. But no matter what it is I always use a
bottle of additive of whatever make, though usually from supermarkets here
one buys one USA product or another. And the cost is minimal. At times I
can certainly feel the difference it makes, let alone the perception that
its good for the pump too.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia
You LC 80 drivers, what's your fuel consumption like? I wouldn't be
surprised if, even with the bigger engines, your fuel consumption is
lower.
SNIP
Jake sorry to say that you have one dog of an engine there especially if
you have a LWB. The larger but non-turbo 2.8 was just as bad. Find a
breaker's 3L turbo and then watch the thing fly. Have had 3L Prado's in a
fleet and that engine is a peach, even better than my 6 cylinder for punch.
(Plenty of 3L's from 4Runners at my local breakers :-D)
Anyway fuel consumption. My worst has been 14.31 L/100km (19.74mpg) on one
tankful, running around the city with a cold engine all the time and mostly
in 4WD - yes in the city the snow does not get cleared well and the ice on
roads is not treated. Also need low ratio 4WD to creep safely down some of
the mountainside roads in the city.
My best has been - and very few believe this - 7.28L/100 (38.8mpg) on a
soft right footed drive across autobahn Europe. Amazing but true.
A tankful 2 weeks ago on long trips in 4WD more-or-less all the time was
10.07L/100 (28.05mpg)
An average in normal varied weather with occasional 4WD, asphalt and rock
roads will be 9.12L/100km (31.25mpg).
All these are 70L plus tankfuls. I rarely ever fill with less than that and
it gives me a good average on which I can work out the consumption, usually
a couple of long trips and several 3 km ones to and from the office and
supermarket etc . (I keep the spare tank about a quarter full just in case).
Remember this is with a 12 valve basic HZJ engine with no extra bits and
pieces, manual box and part-time 4WD with FWH used as often as possible (I
am from a traditional Scots family ;-) ).
And Julian is right, watch-out for low sulphur fuel. If your handbook does
not specifically state that you can use it, then avoid it like the plague
if at all possible. We have had problems with injector pumps, though out
here we can never tell what the hell we are putting in the tank except that
it smells like the right stuff. We have - allegedly - low sulphur or 'Eko'
diesel but I never use it. I always use 'D2', the rough stuff trucks use,
in the belief that it must be less refined therefore full of sulphur and
lubricity of some sort or another. But no matter what it is I always use a
bottle of additive of whatever make, though usually from supermarkets here
one buys one USA product or another. And the cost is minimal. At times I
can certainly feel the difference it makes, let alone the perception that
its good for the pump too.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia