turns out there was only six different* rear springs fitted dependent on single or twin wheel and chassis number range these were all superseded to one spring
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OT:I'll be damned.
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On or around Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:12:12 +0100, "Andy.Smalley" enlightened us thusly:
yeah, I can believe that: the 17-seater bus has the same rear axle loading as mine, viz. 2600Kg.
given more money, I'd put air suspension on it.
Mind, given more money I could fit a V6 and run on gas. In fact, if diesel keeps going up, it might be worth it. Quieter and more powerful, certainly.
in theory, the 2.9 V6 should fit the transit gearbox... tempting.
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On or around Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:45:13 +0100, Moving Vision enlightened us thusly:
The convoy looks a lot more "sorted" than the earlier ones. They're getting quite common, in fact - quite a lot of smaller parcel vans are such.
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Our LDV 400 just keeps going (except the bloody Peugeot engine, but got away with a skim and gasket this time) - not fast, but you can load it with anything - very cheap to buy. With the Transit engine now being fitted in them if I were in the market for a new one thats what I have.
Richard
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No - they are ones who take Top Gear seriously!
No mystery - volumes up, quality down - it happens to everyone, even to the Japs a bit, in every manufacturing sector. VM fanously tried to force every supplier to reduce cost by 5% anually around 8 years ago, and the inevitable happened...
None of the above do anything for me, I'm affraid.
Richard
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I am (until tomorrow), the joys of self-employment.....
Richard
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You'd best talk to the bloke on the A37 today........ and all the ones in garages round here (usually engine problems).
Richard
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An AA mate hates his VW van with a passion, but mostly for niggles and tyre wear. Avoid Sprinters - you *will* need an engine at some stage, and they are hard to come by (vans with no engine - plenty.....)
Richard
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The 2L-T (2.4 turbo diesel) has got to be the least reliable diesel engine Toyota has ever made. The bloody things crack heads all the time and they don't even go particularly well - the 2.8NA makes almost the same torque with significantly less reliablity issues.
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On or around Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:23:23 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:
are they swappable? if so, then running it and replacing the engine for the
2.8 when it goes wrong would be a good bet...not that it's my problem. :-)
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Having done a few Hilux engine swaps it's a straight swap - all the major bits are the same but there might be the usual playing around with the little things that have changed. As I've been typing this a couple of mates have arrived so there's currently 4 Hiluxs in my driveway (2.4T, 2.4NA, 2.8NA and 3.0NA). A quick squiz shows they all have pretty much everything in the same place and look as if they'd interchange without needing anything modified at all (except the 3.0 that's a drive by wire throttle so would need odd bits of electrickery done).