Barry - try Vinaka (Alfa and Fiat Dealers - 1 Amy St, Moonah ph - 036237 0628 - they may be able to help - or steer you somewhere that can. Nice guys, did good job for us twice.
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Barry - try Vinaka (Alfa and Fiat Dealers - 1 Amy St, Moonah ph - 036237 0628 - they may be able to help - or steer you somewhere that can. Nice guys, did good job for us twice.
Thanks Jules
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Try Hobart Diesel Injection Services otherwise you might have to go with Toyota as the 100 series has a different Protocol for using Decoders. It uses M-OBD System as against later models using OBD 2 system for Diagnosis.
UPDATE 1 OK after spending $800 with Toyota and establishing that there were no major (or minor) fault codes coming up we contacted some friends and contacted a major diesel contact and 2 Toyota service technicians.
The 3 of them said if no fault code keeps coming up then concentrate on fuel. Passed this on to Toyota tech who looked at a few things but they couldn't find anything. I urged them to follow the old flowchart ie the fault tree to eliminate things one by one. Still no result and car not faulting, we agreed to take car and test drive for $0 rather than $140 ph.
Been in touch with a local diesel specialist and he will look at it on Monday, but agreed I would look at some parts of the fuel system myself as I'm a diesel fitter (before all the electronic poo was put on them).
So I bought some clear plastic hose and in 15 mins established that the fuel return pipe to the tanks had air in it. Air bubbles the size of pin heads but when you turn the engine off they group into larger particles.
I than fitted a clear plastic hose from fuel damper to injection pump (inlet to pump so suction side of pump). Ran engine at about 1200RPM and a couple of small air bubbles THEN when throttle released back to idle a burst of air bubbles the size of a pea.
AT LAST THE FIRST REAL SIGN OF A PROBLEM.
Fitted new hose clips to all fuel hoses in engine compartment and tightened fuel pre filter bolt (1/4 turn).
Only a very small amount of air going through now.
So Monday I'll get all the fuel hoses/clamps replaced till there is no problem as the fuel hoses look like they have hardened in places.
will keep you posted as to where this goes.
UPDATE 2 The truck was checked by local guys with expert backup from Burnie. Found air being sucked into injection pump and replaced the filter head/manual fuel pump. May have ingested too much air.
Truck was freighted to Burnie yesterday for the experts to look at with their specialist test gear.
Will know more tomorrow.
Cheers Baz
-- Edited by Baz421 on Wednesday 23rd of March 2016 09:12:12 PM
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