Deal done on new long motor.

What was the problem in the end?

Was the crank broken?

Regards Don

Sounds like the days of the early 80 series T/D's Not a good thing. They had a recall on some of the 80 series due to a bad batch of bearings. Hope history is not repeating itself ????? Regards Steve M

Hi TD100, Can you please tell me the total km, what oil you use and how often you change it?

Please note, I am not suggesting any wrong doing, I am just interested in the statistics regarding what happens to big ends in some motors with certain types of oil.

Hi Paul mate read your first post the other day and nearly fell off my chair. Now I read that the crank is broken god damn. I think you must have run over a black cat somewhere at the start of your trip. What year is your 100 series? How many kms has it done?. I have been a Diesel mechanic for 19 years and have come across quite a few broken cranks in my time on all sorts and sizes of engines. Unless you were purposely thrashing the engine causing excessive torsional vibration and excessive loads its hard to see why the crank would have broken sounds like a weak spot in the crank to me! You have me worried now I have a 2004 TD 100 series Auto with 50,000km on the clock and next year will be heading around Aus with a 21 foot caravan in tow bloody hope I don't have to budget in a new long motor somewhere along the road.

Cheers and Good Luck
Brad

TD100
As you say , that's life.
Despite your drama's, it's refreshing to see that you are not making too big a deal out of it - does help to keep the stress levels down, and I commend you for this approach. I certainly would find it hard not to persue it further with Toyota, which leads me to this.
Having said that Toyota don't want a bar of it, is surprising, & it begs the question - why?
a 2003 LC100 with 61k on it would be viewed by anyone reading this, as not even run in, and a highly sought after model to have (just look at what the market says they are worth).
To have one drop it's bundle like this, would surely deem it "Not fit for purpose" (mention that phrase to Mr head office toyota, and you may get a different reaction?)

It would be easy to draw comparisons to early GU's zd30. nissan came to the party on a lot of failures here with more k's, and some outside the 3 year warranty period, however it was a known problem to nissan, that was gaining widespread public knowledge,whereas toyota are probably putting this down to a one off, with the attitude of "he was probably flogging the guts out of it - too bad - out of warranty" . even though, as you say above, you kept the vehicle well maintained, and drove normally.

At least you don't seemed too stressed over it, but in summary, this vehicle - worth ~$65k new, and still worth 80% of that now, is clearly "Not fit for purpose" in terms of you would you were sold.

At least you'll be on the road soon - enjoy the break (no pun intended)

cheers
Mark

Paul
Spot on mate!
Many would not settle down, and go in guns blazing, all stressed out & angry. At least you're all safe, and you've kept your sanity

cheers
mark

Paul,

I would suggest you lodge a claim at The Small Claims Tribunal or VCAT or whatever it is depending on where you live.

Cost you about $30. No lawyers allowed. No risk of getting coosts awarded against you. The fact that it is out of warranty is immaterial.

Jim.