4 runner pinging
Submitted: Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:51
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Has anyone had trouble with RV6 pinging?
Any success in rectifying it? There is some info from USA but not really relative to Aust. I would rather not run premium and/or octane booster as this is not available in many
places out of the city.
Reply By: Leroy - Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:03
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:03
Have you tried running on premium to see if the pinging goes away? Mates Suby wont run on anything else. (without pinging)
Leroy
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Reply By: Member - Jeff M (WA) - Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:59
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:59
You'll find if you don't run it on premium it will most likley ping, even my 3 cylinder 850cc daihatsu pings on regular unleaded because it's poo. 91 octain at best is just pathetic, the cars are just not designed to run on that crap. Easy solution, run it on premium around town, keep a bottle of nulon concentrate in the tool box for when your out of town, you can probally get a couple of tanks out of one bottle.
Or... buy a diesel!! LOL Had to chuck that in as us diesel drivers have been coping it of late about the price of diesel, but it's not so bad when you look at the price of premium! ;-)
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Reply By: Member - Clive G (WA) - Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 14:25
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 14:25
Gday,
when is it pinging, all the time or under exceleration, if under power I would check the timing ,
Clive
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Follow Up By: Troopy Travellers (NSW) - Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 14:38
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 14:38
My 4 litre petrol troopy has a more notecible ping when I use Shell ULP. Other brands seem OK, it does not ping on Optimax. Maybe you can blend ULP & Premium to find the cheapest solution.
Sparky
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Follow Up By: Member - Jeff M (WA) - Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 18:18
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 18:18
Actually funny you should say that, I have found shell ULP to be rather crap, even shell Premium was poo. Used to make my Motorbike run like crap, wouldn't even start if it was filled with shell premium.
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Reply By: Nudenut - Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 16:16
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 at 16:16
Had a mazda bravo that did it...
common criteria....
warm to hot ambients > 35,
looking back on it the only thing different was the bull bar from new.....
a check against the original front plastic bumber reveals a bigger airflow aperture....never did get around to actually taking
water temp in degrees C
but temp light never came on!!!
I now wonder if it was just a case of getting to hot due to lack of air over radiator?
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