Rockall
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Good evening all
Stumbled across this site by accident
Still own a 1997 Colorado LWB manual diesel with 417,000 miles, currently mothballed as she needs a bit of TLC - intend doing a total rebuild for overland expedition - more later.
Now driving a recently acquired 1998 LWB Colorado manual diesel with 'only' 214,000 miles and in very nice condition - I actually bought it in East Midlands and imported to Ireland.
My Landcruisers work for a living - in and out of quarries etc as well as normal day to day driving.
I had a 2001 Mercedes ML 270 cdi automatic in between - lovely and comfortable, good on fuel but two things made me move away - you needed a laptop to talk to it for the lights on the dash syndrome and it is just not suitable for in and out of quarries.
I will be doing a viscous fan service on my current one soon.
I recently met a retired Toyota mechanic who was the 'Landcruiser' man in the garage. He mentioned quite a few things about the Colorado/Prado but regarding overheating etc he recommended the following
1: Remove and reverse flush your rad every 60k miles when doing the timing belt - I did my first Colorado at about 300K miles for the first time and was gobsmacked at the amount of 'sludge' that came out
2: Change your rad ideally at 5 years if a high mileage user but definitely by 7 years even under normal conditions
3: Keep the area between the airco rad (if fitted) and the engine rad clear at all times of the debris that collects - leaves, hay etc
4: Check viscous coupling oil every time you are doing a timing belt - 60K miles.
Regards
Bill
Stumbled across this site by accident
Still own a 1997 Colorado LWB manual diesel with 417,000 miles, currently mothballed as she needs a bit of TLC - intend doing a total rebuild for overland expedition - more later.
Now driving a recently acquired 1998 LWB Colorado manual diesel with 'only' 214,000 miles and in very nice condition - I actually bought it in East Midlands and imported to Ireland.
My Landcruisers work for a living - in and out of quarries etc as well as normal day to day driving.
I had a 2001 Mercedes ML 270 cdi automatic in between - lovely and comfortable, good on fuel but two things made me move away - you needed a laptop to talk to it for the lights on the dash syndrome and it is just not suitable for in and out of quarries.
I will be doing a viscous fan service on my current one soon.
I recently met a retired Toyota mechanic who was the 'Landcruiser' man in the garage. He mentioned quite a few things about the Colorado/Prado but regarding overheating etc he recommended the following
1: Remove and reverse flush your rad every 60k miles when doing the timing belt - I did my first Colorado at about 300K miles for the first time and was gobsmacked at the amount of 'sludge' that came out
2: Change your rad ideally at 5 years if a high mileage user but definitely by 7 years even under normal conditions
3: Keep the area between the airco rad (if fitted) and the engine rad clear at all times of the debris that collects - leaves, hay etc
4: Check viscous coupling oil every time you are doing a timing belt - 60K miles.
Regards
Bill