Daniel Petersen
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gday guys, new to the forum here! I have a much loved 79 series as my work car with a 1HZ motor in it and am after a bit of help!
To be honest my personal car is a (don't shoot me), Patrol so I don't know a whole lot about the land cruisers, only what I have picked up on my work ute over the last few years.
Anyways more to the point here!
A few weeks ago I noticed the glow plug light coming on intermittently while the car was idling or driving. Then after a few days when trying to start the car it would be abit of a struggle, it was like it hadn't had a chance for the glow plugs to come on and was being started on a cold morning, but this went on every time the car was started.
Now still having both the above issues, Iv gotten a flat battery. Jump started her and drove around for a few hours and battery is still flat.
Now Iv been parking it on a hill every day so that I can roll start it to get to work!
Usually I'd go to a mechanic but I live four hours from Alice Springs so I'm going to have to try and fix whatever it is myself!
The only other problem I have had recently, and I don't think it could be linked but the air conditioning belt snapped and I am yet to replace it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated and sorry for the very long post!
To be honest my personal car is a (don't shoot me), Patrol so I don't know a whole lot about the land cruisers, only what I have picked up on my work ute over the last few years.
Anyways more to the point here!
A few weeks ago I noticed the glow plug light coming on intermittently while the car was idling or driving. Then after a few days when trying to start the car it would be abit of a struggle, it was like it hadn't had a chance for the glow plugs to come on and was being started on a cold morning, but this went on every time the car was started.
Now still having both the above issues, Iv gotten a flat battery. Jump started her and drove around for a few hours and battery is still flat.
Now Iv been parking it on a hill every day so that I can roll start it to get to work!
Usually I'd go to a mechanic but I live four hours from Alice Springs so I'm going to have to try and fix whatever it is myself!
The only other problem I have had recently, and I don't think it could be linked but the air conditioning belt snapped and I am yet to replace it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated and sorry for the very long post!