Thread: Budget Family 4WD

An interesting thing that I had happen on the 3RZ hilux was the vacuum sensing hose falling off half way through a short drive. That wasn't ideal to be honest, I thought I had killed it - it started running that roughly. Wasn't too easy to spot as well, but plug it back onto the tail and good as new!

Not an issue with the diesel powered ones haha.

Water ingress is a potential major, it's not just inlets and breathers that you need to worry about now as there are a heap of oddball sensors that can stop things outright if they start feeling out of sorts from a swim. Some of the DPF systems with an extra injector down aft get severely testy with the sudden temp drop from immersion, and there really isn't anything you can do about that even though the basic system is fitted to a vehicle with a nominal 600mm wading depth. I think we are going to see a lot of pricing increases on older solid 4x4's as the newer electric everything ones take over. ABS systems are another that can give problems from swims.