100 series V8 Engine Noise

G'day Pauldingo
I have spoken to my workshop foreman and he has told me that this is a commen
problem. Toyota have had technical meeting about this and still have not found the cause of the problem, they are however in the process of investigating. Bare with the dealer though they will find a solution to this, as your car is one of many.

gday paul.
i was talking to a toyota bloke the other day.
he was telling me about the problem as well.
seems a few have gone the way of the 3 ltr patrol motor.(KABOOM)
toyota dont know what it is but the bigger problem in the mean time is the damage being done to the motors now starting up with no oil pressure on all the bearings.
he thinks they will sort it out but lets see what happens at 100000+ks and out of waranty.
OH WHATA FEELING

Could just be a leaky seal or somthing, sounds similar to the Old nissan 3.0L 6's, they used to do it all the time, a few seconds on startup then they were right, they still used to do 300k without blinking if looked after.

Get it in writing that you have been told to keep driving till they find the problem. If it was me it would be back at the dealer and not to be moved till fixed. I had a problem with my 4.5lt Landcruiser and they had trouble finding and when I came back at 5, they said couldn't find pop back next week. I laughed and said no way it stays till u find the problem and I jumped back into the taxi and went home. I got a call 3 days later they had found the problem and it's fixed.

Rossco

Pauldingo

I had a noise in my 100 series Sahara only on cold start up and only when in gear at idle. sounded like a really bad rattle. Would only happen on cold mornings too. Turned out to be the plastic engine cover touching the engine found out a friend with a similar car had the same problem easy fixed by he dealer.

I've had two V8 100 series the first one has done over 100K and rthe second one has done nearly 40K no problems with either.

This engine has been around for a long time now started out as a Lexus so I think if there was any major design problems as has been suggested they would have surfaced well and truely by now.

Good luck
Cheers
Jeff

V8 LANDCRUISER ENGINE OIL PROBLEM ( Nov 2003 model ).
Just after 30k service left vehicle standing for about 4 days outside on slight incline
with cold nights. When started it appeared to have no oil pressure, fairly severe
clacking and banging from engine for about 20 seconds then seemed to get oil
pressure and orchestra left the engine pit. Tarnished / burnt oil smell evident with
some minor smoke from exhaust.
Took it to dealer who advised they had never heard of problem (now seems a bit strange ???? ), and of course now it had warmed up would not " strike up the band ".
Have left it for several days but no repeat of the tune yet, however now has greater fluctuation in oil pressure on gauge when under load or idle than the
gauge used to indicate.
Vehicle was serviced by Northern Suburbs Dealer in Perth.
Trust GOOGLE will pick up this thread, as I could not find it, had to get thread
address from employee who chanced upon it.

Chirpy chirpy bang bang
GeoffT

Emailed this thread to my local dealer and asked they forward to Toyota.
Car is too quiet, got my first speeding fine in nearly 40 years of driving, as
with the old cruiser I had you could HEAR what speed you were doing.
Cant keep my wife out of it, she prefers over her Fairmont and a mate
bought one after driving mine. (is late 2002 model not 2003 my error)