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An update - (belated!) - on the above issue for interest. (Unfortunately I couldn't do much over the winter months, but I'm back on it now)... After the last report, the CEL finally returned - as well as the bad running. I also notice that actual diesel (or some non aqueous liquid) was...

Thanks @Dave I replaced the fuel filter (for another Crossland I'm afraid as I'd already bought it a couple of days ago!). To avoid any chance of the new filter getting clogged if there were something unsavoury in the tank I also drained the tank completely. Nothing untoward came out. I put...

Oh, that is an interesting angle. I never knew that diesel bug were a thing, until now. I've seen that happen in screenwash and it's pretty nasty. My filter is a Crossland from ECP. No biocide. The fuel tank is near empty at the moment so I might just drain it completely as well as check /...

Hi all Some background first on a fault I am now investigating. Maybe it'll help someone some day: My 1HD-FTE started acting up during a touring holiday a couple of weeks back. The first signs were when parking up one evening and the engine sounded intermintently rough whilst idling and...

Ah - rivnuts! I saw them on youtube a while back and thought "where have they been all my life?!" But I never think to try them. Thanks!

Can't blame you Bob - I think I'd rather be swapping the engine on that than dealing with rust and broken bolts! Very odd how they mix studs and captive nuts.... The only reason I can think of is to make factory assembly a fraction of a second quicker by allowing the workers to locate the...

Ah, that is interesting to know, about the potential for a larger size. I'll look into that! Mine does struggle a bit in cold weather ( < 5C) especially if it has been left a few days. I would like a bit more in reserve! I have been looking underneath for potential mounting points for a third...

@knicko - just to say, I keep a good stock of s/s bolts and routinely use them when reassembling anything on my truck. So many of the original bolts have given me grief that whatever the potential issues are with using stainless fixings on non-stainless metal are, it can't be worse than what I...

Thanks Bob - I've seen your sill-renewal thread and I raise my hat to you for what you did there. I too am not thrilled by doing bodywork. (I do have some bubbling at the front of the rear sill which I must deal with - I am praying it's not as extensive as yours!). After I posted my message...

Where are you planning to locate your third battery Sparra? I reworked the standard dual-battery setup so that the left one became the leisure battery, and the right one did the normal car duties. This worked ok, but one battery for starting can be marginal in my experience, so I would like to...

Hi all I need to sort out my side-steps which are rattling and insecure. I started removing the brackets from the body (with a view to renewing them) but some of the bolts were totally rusted and sheered off in the process. So now it will not be possible to bolt new brackets in place. Would...

Old thread, I know, but for what it's worth... When I renewed my AHC rams (not an AHC-delete) I just about to managed to remove one side with a LOT of struggle. For the other side I opted to drill the hole and make my life 10 times easier. I know it's not the factory method, but it's twenty...

I managed to upload one of the two videos at least. This one shows the movement in the front prop when turning it back and forth by hand: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fYOGjAaxOH6ouPbrC-IeaVK5omtmoJPv/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for the suggestion uHu. I've just emerged from under the car and, unfortunately, it's definitely not the prop or UJs. With the car on the ground (i.e. wheels unable to move) and the transfer box in N, centre diff unlocked, there is a marked difference in the amount of free rotation...

Hi My Cruiser makes a disinct clonk when coming on and off the throttle. It's not grossly offensive, but does detract from the ride. I had a quick look in to it a few years ago (thread here: Driveline Clonk (rear diff?) - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club]). I later found that the front hub splines...

Hi Some day I can see myself finding a really clean facelift 100 (I currently have a pre-facelift 2002 - I've done a lot to bring it up to scratch but it's had a hard life before me and the dreaded tin worm may eventually get the best of it). But the one thing that puts me off the newer models...

I happened to watch this video last night. It _is_ a very nice truck, no question, and maybe for someone who just wants to hit the road it might be a good deal. Base vehicle new looks to be around £40-45k, and this one has had a lot of expensive work done. If you value all those add-ons maybe it...

175,000 miles... But... It's fixed! :D I took the Neutral Safety Switch off (aka Park Neutral Switch etc). First oberservation - the connector was jammed with a dry white substance. Best guess is silicone grease, but old and dried out. I also opened the unit up, thoroughly cleaned...

Hi In my quest to stamp out the few electrical gremlins in my truck (sadly I think it has had a hard life...)... I am faced with two apparently unrelated problems. Only now, I'm starting to wonder (hope against hope..?) whether they could be two manifestation of the same problem. I'd be...

PS.... for general interest...: I spotted the alarm module itself. It's a TVSS IV-S.

Weekend update.... Using the circuit diag for the suspect HAZ/TRN circuit, I saw that the the first component beyond the fuse (apart from a loom connector) is the T11 flasher unit. Disconnecting this would effectvely take the entire rest of the indicator circuit out of the picture. I did this...

It turns out that the bonnet does have a switch... and contrary to my expectation, it is working! The reason I suspected it could be at fault (or absent!) is that AHC height changes do not get blocked when the bonnet is open, whereas opening a cabin door cancels the height change. I assumed...

It's a 2002 model year so I guess not the same alarm, but I haven't been able to find any info so far. 40mA sounds much closer to what I would expect (I think I recall a technical document from Mr T quoting an expected range of 35-50mA, but I can't swear to the accuracy of my memory :)) So...

Removing and hopefully opening the siren was going to be my next step, at the weekend if the stars align correctly. It must have either a battery or capacitor into in order to sound the disconnection beeper at least, so if I can get to those I might be able to renew them. That's the plan, but I...

I'm not aware of it being aftermarket, but I'm not sure how I can check that. I assumed that by that point (2002) most cars had factory alarms as standard. If I could find the part number for the siren module, and find one on new or on ebay for a reasonable price, I'd be willing to take a punt...

The intrigue continues. According to the HAZ/TRN system diagram, there should be no permanent consumers on that circuit except for the obvious turn signal components. But, I found a couple of things that contradict this in my case. 1) Pulling the fuse causes the alarm siren to beep a few...

Ah I see, yes. I tried to look for it yesterday (supposed to be in the bundle of cabling inside the jack compartment at the back) but couldn't see any likely candidate. It's not very pleasant in there - Dinitrol wax bundles of cable with foam wrapped connectors... However... (see next message...)

I was able to find the circuit diagram for the HAZ/TRN circuit last night and you're right - it doesn't do anything else. Just a turn relay and a towing relay, switches, connectors and lamps. In light of that, and indeed your comments regarding turn relays, I am quite hopeful that I will at...

I did wait a little while, but will give it a good 5-10 mins and check again to confirm. Nothing in the OBD and the CD changer no longer exists :) Thanks simon303

Nothing on the bonnet - interesting! Well, you've saved me the effort of trying to find something that doesn't exist - thanks! I'll open up the tailgate and fish around in there - thanks again :) sim303

Hi Another niggling problem on my radar.... Neither my bonnet or tailgate appear to have any functioning elecrtical switches - i.e. if I disarm the car and open only the tailgate, the car doesn't realise the door has been opened and re-arms the car after half a minute or so. The interior...

Hi There used to be one yes, but I removed it and the towbar a couple of years ago. Its wiring didn't look too wonderful as I recall, and I think I removed all the obvious non-stock cable. Maybe I can get underneath again and disconnect the loom connector blocks on the rear crossmember and...

Hi all Spring is here and it's high time I investigated why my battery fails to start the car after just a few days.... (and yes, it is just one battery - the other is no longer part of the main circuit and instead serves as a leisure battery for auxiliary gear). ...so I spent much of...

Apologies, I'm hibernating over the winter, at least as far as vehicle work is concerned! I got a quote for a new key - it's something in excess of £200 (can't remember exactly now) so when I get a chance I will try modifying the unit without a key. Honestly I'd rather have it that way in the...

One for the purists maybe?? Pics on request!

Like the title says - a CD autochanger from the centre cubby of my 100 series. Pics on request :)

I have two OE door speakers from my 100 Amazon. Cheap and crappy, but maybe someone needs some spares... Pics if needed. Will chuck them out if no-one is interested (I doubt anyone is!)

Hi I have a faulty alternator removed from my truck recently. Mechanically it seems fine - good bearings - but it was not charging the battery. I had an idea that I would replace the electronics (which appear to be designed to be serviced) but obviously I will never get round to that :)...

Hi I have a set of four AHC spheres recently removed from my truck. They are the original factory units. I bought the truck a few months ago and as it has no history I have been renewing various parts as a precautionary measure before coming to rely on it for any big adventures. Thus I...

That's really helpful - thanks!

I am in a similar boat, with chassis and underbody rust. Fairly widespread, but thankfully, not too deep, as far as I can tell. Looks worse than it probably is, put it that way. But, it needs arresting! I haven't tried the products mentioned here, but I plan to go with the EpoxyMastic EM121...

Hi I'm trying to find out a definitive (diffinitive??) figure for the rear diff of a 2000MY UK Amazon VX 4.2TD. 4.1:1? 4.3:1? something else? I'm only finding patchy info online - debates about ratios on 100 vs 105 etc etc, and the handbook has nothing about final drive ratios - shocking! :)...

As a new member of the fold, I must admit I'm finding Toyota land a bit stiff, parts cost wise! :astonished: I've been running BMW since 2002 (still do) and to be honest Mr B's parts prices seem keener than Mr T's. Very helpful parts dept too :)

I don't think that will help - Activity Monitor shows that Firefox is burning up CPU when the problem occurs, but I don't think there's any way in ACtivity Monitor of drilling deeper to find out exactly what it is that's going on inside Firefox itself. sim

No problem, next time it occurs I will do that. Probably will never happen again now!

Hi I've noticed that whenever I am on some pages of this site, the fan on my macbook starts going crazy (normally silent) and general performance goes down the toilet. My knees get burned and my battery life plummets, and it's generally not very relaxing :) Once I close...

Hi I also get this AdBlocker message on my Mac / Firefox. I do have AdBlocker installed, but it is disabled for the entire www.landcruiserclub.net site, and indeed I see the ads. Yet still I get this nag message :( sim

I found the problem.... I removed the door card, and was happy to notice that the vertical linkage from the central locking switch, was not connected at the top, to the lock barrel. After faffing around trying to reconnect it, I could not get it to connect in any sane way. I resorted to...

Thanks. You're right, I wouldn't attempt to remedy it it myself - I don't have the equipment for pressing bearing or adjusting preload etc. If I can find a reputable place that can offer exchanges at a bearable price (assuming I do indeed have a problem) then I might go down that route.

Whilst I was scrabbling around under the back axle of the Cruiser this morning, I thought I'd try turning the rear prop by hand to check for play, worn UJs etc. The transfer box and gearbox were both in neutral, so the front end should have been free to move. As such, I found I was able to turn...