by Diesel Damo <Diesel_4WD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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May 14, 2008 at 03:30 AM
Athol wrote:
> There's nothing special about hiluxes that makes them any less of
> a disposable vehicle than anything else out there...
Indeed there are some design flaws in my Hilux that I wish weren't
there, and this is just in my limited experience with it.
For example if you're pointed skyward as you might be when going up a
very steep hill and you're in low-range (because you're towing two
farken heavy horses), the transfer gets almost no lubrication and
starts singing it's head off after about a minute of punishment
*wwwwwrrrrrraaaaaaAAAAAAA*
Also, if you drfive exclusively on nice highways, the bearing for 5th
gear will wear out very quickly. The reason is because it sits up out
of the oil inside the box. The logic is that it'll get splashed with
plenty of oil with all the off-road bumping around you must be doing
with this vehicle. Mine packed it in when I worked in Canberra and 180
out of 360 daily km was on smooth as ice highway roads.
