Landcruiser refueling

Hi Richard and Leonie,
Have had similar experience one servo operator told me the larger nozzle is a quick filler for trucks etc( where the diesel bowsers are seperate) and i should use the pump that is in with the petrol bowsers as it will have the small nozzel
Cheers Kev

Yep....I reckon Kev is on the money ........ I go to a big servo where they have truck bays seperate to the front of house bowsers - B doubles etc often pull in there and like to fill up quick - the nozzle is quite a few mils bigger than the ones often found at servos in general. As Kev says, seems the diesel bowsers in the front of house line-ups are always the small nozzle.... some of the latter are amazingly slow - the truck fillers are amazingly fast !

I bought my diesel cruiser new in 2002 and toyota had a recall, they fitted the aussie bound cruisers with the wrong sized filler holes. they retro fitted with the larger sized filler holes to accomodate the larger nozzles. Don"t know if they are still available from toyota.
Cheers Peter

Nissans can take the truck fillers ok. Sounds like you ARE missing something. LOL

I've got a 2000 100 series diesel and the quick fill nozzles fit in OK, so they must have changed them somewhere along the line then fixed up their mistake. The quick fill nozzles are great unless you like filling both tanks right to the top, then it gets a bit messy

Andrew

Fits the 80 series , better check the dealer

Skinny

The bigger nozzles fit the Prado 90series and the 78/79series too. Hadn't heard of there being a problem with 100series.

I remember when Mitsubishi released the current shaped Pajero, there were a lot of complaints that they'd only take the small nozzle, and I think it migfht have been changed.

Cheers
Phil

Pete is on the money.

We had an 02 TD cruiser with same problem and this came to a head in Bordertown SA when I could not locate a small nozzle anywhere in town to fill the tank so had to use funnel.

Being p**sed off with this I headed for the Toyota dealer in town. Woman behind desk gave me that, this bloke must be losing it look as I told her the high flow nozzle would not fit.

On our way out to prove I wasn't losing it her offsider came up with a tech bulletin from Toyota identifying that the specs for diesel and TD's to Australia wrongly prescribed filling nozzles suitable only for petrol engines.

Bordertown Toyota found a replacement for us in Adelaide and we had it fitted when we got there. You should still be able to get it replaced.

Bill