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| Thread ID: 67915 | 2006-04-10 05:45:00 | Toyota Dyna truck | tims (10184) | PC World Chat |
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| 445397 | 2006-04-10 05:45:00 | Hi all I intend to buy a Toyota Dyna truck (jap import) around 1998 - 2000 vintage. Anyone care to offer a opinion on what is the best model Dyna to go for as far as engines go - my understanding they come in 2.8 and 3.0 litres diesels. Just wondering if I should go for one over the other. cheers Tim |
tims (10184) | ||
| 445398 | 2006-04-12 08:59:00 | depends a lot on the model. there is different models with dyna trucks and also different names eg hiace truck. 98-2000...the small ones i think only came out with the 2.4, the bigger dyna had a 4 litre <sorry your proberly better doing a search on various models and specs> the small ones are basicly a hiace van with the rear cut off. big downside is they are only rated for about 1 ton. ffrom around 2000 on they had the 2.8 motr then the 3 litre. let me know what price you get one in for, been toying with the idea of getting one (tho in 4x4) |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 445399 | 2006-04-12 09:10:00 | we have 4 or 5 of em in different sizes and configurations, They get thrashed, (over)loaded to the hilt, and driven from one end of the country to the other. Good trucks. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 445400 | 2006-04-12 09:56:00 | If the 2.8 diesel is the same as in the Hiace van, it should be pretty well bullet proof. I spent a year driving a shuttle van in and around Wellington. My van had done about 300 000 km and ran like a top. It was averaging 300km per day and had very little trouble. There were others in the Wellington fleet that had done up around 700 000 km but were getting pretty clonky in the gear selectors. There is a chap at Miramar who can re bush the gear selectors for a fraction of the cost of new parts. One clod at a service station even put petrol in it by mistake. It pinked heavily going up Ngauranga Gorge, but made it all the way out to Paremata and back to Thorndon (had to pick up a passenger for a flight). A service guy drained the tank, towed me to a service station and refilled with diesel. Didn't even have to bleed the injector pump they are self bleeding on that model. Cheers, Jim |
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