AnswerID: 192273 Submitted: Friday, Sep 01, 2006 at 21:10
TUFF IFS LUX
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Yeah,
It can be done. I enquired about my hilux v6 3.4 bout 3 weeks ago. They quoted me $3,500 for a gas injection kit. Bloke reckons its no problem as its the same engine as the previous prados and they havnt had any problems. Am still considering it, trying to get as much info as possible before I outlay any dough.
Heard you can get a small resovoir of upper cylinder lube that gets sprayed in the intake manifold (I think?) to lube the valves abit whilst running gas, coz gas is very dry.
Another thing I read around in other forums is that a petrol engine will rarely be able to go past 100,000kms on LP Gas without a head rebuild which will add another couple grand to the job of removing the head and rebuilding it with the hardened valve seats,
Then again, I read that some bloke with a 3.0 V6 Pajero coverted to Gas and had to do 3 head rebuilds within 100,000kays. Pretty bloody expensive.
Im still tossing up on wether to go Gas, or to remove the 3.4 V6 and put either a 1KZ-TE or a 1KD as in the new hilux. Im sourcing info from a british hilux
forum now on it because their 1998-2004 hilux's had the D4D's in them and am trying to find out what gearbox they ran and if I can get mounts , fuel lines etc. for my lux.
Beats puttin it on gas as the fuel efficiency would be almost halved.
Max.
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