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A thing of beauty! Guessing it won’t be coming to the North Wales trip in July?!?!
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Who is doing what maintenance today?
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TBH Andy I'm definitely considering it. It has a towbar and if the long term weather forecast gives no rain it's a more than 50%..
I'm not sure if it hasn't already got it in but I can see that it is painted inside. Probably will investigate and treat it with some kind of wax/Dinitrol treatment.
It's a bit of a project vehicle TBF.
At some point a compressor and spray gun starts to pay for itself vs spray cans.
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 around any inner wing plastic liners.
If just doing the chassis cavities 2 or 3 would probably do the bis, if doing doors sills boot bonnet inner wings etc as well you might need 4 or more.
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Did an oil change for my 120 yesterday, it was my first oil change and I'm pretty happy with it. I twisted off the oil filter with my hand so I'm glad I decided against buying the tool. The filter glugged out a bit of oil though so that was a bit messy. I put 10-w40 into it. I was planning on buying 5-w30 but the guy in the shop suggested 10-w40 and it was half the price so I couldn't argue.
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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 drain down through that pipe into your waste collection bowl allowing you to remove the filter after a short wait without spillage, the hole can get clogged up with muck over time which might have happened to yours, reverse blowing through the pipe should dislodge any blockage.
If possible its worth leaving the oil to drain for several hours preferably overnight, the oil pick up strainer is directly above the drain hole on 120s, an ideal time to inspect it via torch or camera to check its not getting clogged with carbon clumps...early warning there might be a leaking injector seal if its getting carboned up.
Anyway, that's not a mess you should see me and the sheets of cardboard and the block paving i failed to cover adequately after my rustproofing escapades...
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 since the last change.
Looking at my hand written self service history am now on the 4th A4 page, won't be of any interest to any normy potential buyer but maybe someone here interested in buying it should i ever decide to sell (i'm not) would appreciate it.
Regarding selling or not, we had toyed with replacing it and the wifey's Forester with a Suzuki Across/Rav4 hybrid when dropping to one car when i retire, Forester collecting a shopping trolley scrape in Asda car park couple of weeks ago from some muppet has reminded us both that you just can't have nice things any more, the bottom feeders who've probably never done a days work in their lives can't stand it, sod it lets keep the old 120 going.
At one point due to Hilux holding such high used values i'd considered a Ford Ranger 3.2 5 pot, but you can't do oil changes like we do on ours, have to get the new oil back in within 15 minutes because the oil pump can't self prime, yes seriously, have you ever heard anything so ridiculous and the smaller Ford engine they hobbled with a wet cambelt so not a chance, just what were they thinking.
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 since the last change.
Looking at my hand written self service history am now on the 4th A4 page, won't be of any interest to any normy potential buyer but maybe someone here interested in buying it should i ever decide to sell (i'm not) would appreciate it.
Regarding selling or not, we had toyed with replacing it and the wifey's Forester with a Suzuki Across/Rav4 hybrid when dropping to one car when i retire, Forester collecting a shopping trolley scrape in Asda car park couple of weeks ago from some muppet has reminded us both that you just can't have nice things any more, the bottom feeders who've probably never done a days work in their lives can't stand it, sod it lets keep the old 120 going.
At one point due to Hilux holding such high used values i'd considered a Ford Ranger 3.2 5 pot, but you can't do oil changes like we do on ours, have to get the new oil back in within 15 minutes because the oil pump can't self prime, yes seriously, have you ever heard anything so ridiculous and the smaller Ford engine they hobbled with a wet cambelt so not a chance, just what were they thinking.
And the "new" V6 Ranger has the JLR famed for crankshafts failing , plastic inlet manifolds cracking , will it explode or not engine....
People are swapping the oil pumps in the 5 cylinder Ranger engines to one that will self prime.... ridiculous that you have to pay to make your ford engine reliable .... and as for the Ford "eco boom" what an excuse for an engine .... Toyota are not immune from making silly mistakes like the 200 series air box that doesn't seal and injector washers etc but generally they make Ford in particular look like muppets .
People are swapping the oil pumps in the 5 cylinder Ranger engines to one that will self prime.... ridiculous that you have to pay to make your ford engine reliable .... and as for the Ford "eco boom" what an excuse for an engine .... Toyota are not immune from making silly mistakes like the 200 series air box that doesn't seal and injector washers etc but generally they make Ford in particular look like muppets .
