Thread: Budget Family 4WD

That 3RZ is a good motor, had one in the 2wd Hilux. The unfortunate thing with that combo is the pilot shaft on the transmission had a fault and sounded like it was encased in gravel. There were a few campaigns on it from the dealers but it remained the weakness of that combo. Also definitely did not like water, hit a section of surface water one day during a weather event (not particularly deep either) and the water getting up into the engine bay stopped it cold. Managed to get it restarted after half an hour or so, but what a piss off. That remains the weakness of the petrol engines...