jackaroo v gxl cruiser ulp fuel consumption

I am so discusted in 20litres per 100km i am selling my 4x4 for a diesel..... Are you sure you wont fall to the same sword?

Also the lack of distance from my fuel range.....

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Voxson hi,

Yes, this is starting to be another consideration that is edging
it's way into my considerations!

I've never had anything to do with diesels or ever driven one.
I notice alot of diesel cruisers blowing heaps of smoke as they take orf.
They seem pretty noisey. If something goes wrong with motor
I've heard that it's big bucks.
I like to have a bit of go off the line too.
And the price for a good low km diesel is pretty high thus
putting me back in the low/mid 90's models.

cheers

Wolf,

I'd question those fuel numbers, I've had a '98 Jack (3.5) and done trips with blokes in 80 petrols. There is no way they use the same juice, not heaps less, but something like 80-85% of the cruiser. The IZUZU 3.5 has all the fruit to make it efficient (coil pack per plug, variable intake runners etc etc) that most of the others are just catching up to. It was rated the most efficient in it's class when released in '98. Like most petrol V6's fuel consumption is a factor of how it is driven.

If you get the tape out you'll probably find not a big difference inside either.

IMHO these are both vehicles with deserved excellent reputations, the Jack is probably a better handler on the road, the cruiser in the really rough stuff. I doubt you would be unhappy with either and I'm sure no one would talk you out of either. It may come down to what you can find for price and condition.

Regds

Bill

Thanks Bill,

Another consideration is resale value.
The landcruisers hold there value very well.
I have seen a few concerns from jackaroo owners in this forum
regarding the imminent fall in resale for the jack due them being discontinued.

The extra $3/4K for the cruiser would probably be made up when I go to sell it,
maybe not that much but you can see where I'm going.

cheers
wolf

Jackroo and Cruiser are 2 totally different class cars!

If the jackaroo gets that bad a fuel as a cruser, I wouldnt consider it. The motor is smaller, so is the car and storage space etc, the cruiser would be better value. But I think that those fuel figs are wrong.

YMMV

And the Jackaroo has about as good a resale value as a Discovery.....ie very poor.
I,d go with the Tojo.

Willie

Fitzmaurice River NT

Wolf, If you are looking for a vehicle that you plan to keep for a while, don't get something that might not suit. Resale value is one thing but also consider changeover costs (stamp duty) etc. I would rather go for a 80 series which was couple of years older but low km's & diesel rather than a later model petrol. There are still some good value 94 - 95 models out there. They did not change much between 94 & 97. Cheers
Allan

Im not sure where you are getting 20/100km city driving for a jackaroo. I have a 98 se petrol & the worst I have got was 15.98 & the best being 13.13 city driving. Iv'e been calculating out my fuel since october last year & trialing which service stations offer the best economy.

Regards

Jackablue

Hi,

Just a comment on the quoted fuel consumption.

I have a 99 Jack SE 3.5 L petrol & have kept spreadsheet since day 1. It has now done nearly 90K & my overall average consumption is less then 16 L per 100km. I am a city driver who does a fair amount of 4WD (including sand) and who tows a 17ft poptop van - including many months around Aussie. So most of my work is hard on petrol use.

On "normal" city driving I get around 15L/100km but on a highway trip down to 11/12L/100km without towing.

I am extremely happy with my Jack - cant say about the Cruiser.

Regards, Willy

The Jacks are hard to beat, Overall build quality and design is good, and made in japan to boot. My 98 Jack 3.5 Manual gets around 14- 14.5 driven hard around town or in the scrub, and around 12 - 12.5 normal use. last year I took it up to visit my sister in FNQ during summer From my home north of melb, loaded up with heaps of gear to camp along the way, and sitting on 120kph on the highways on hot days of around 37-40 degrees with the aircon on , it didn't miss a beat and returned fuel figures of 11.5 - 12 litres per 100 ks. I purchased mine from the Gov't auctions with 80,000 k on the clock for $19k in mint condition!! it now has racked up 135k and hasn't missed a beat. I fitted a Unifilter foam element and Iridium plugs and noticed a good improvement straight away, future plans include adding a second airbox and intake to give more filter surface area and less restriction, stainless custom headers and 2 1/2 inch exhaust with straight through glass pack mufflers. The ecu will need to be reset after this or i will possibly even fit a unichip and give the full dyno treatment.
I can't justify the extra cost of a cruiser until I need that extra bit of space.

Go the Jack and you will never look back, Brad

Hey Wolf, The vent scoop on the TD is for passing air through the intercooler core only, It would be possible to use a scoop to ram feed the air box but you would have to be very careful about any water splashes coming across the bonnet, so it would not be suitable for a forby. The reason i am going to open the intake up even further is that when you give it a good free rev under the bonnet you can see the airbox suck in slightly, so there is an obvious negative pressure and restriction in the standard airbox system. As for the exhaust there is a restrictor inside each side of the collector pipes which i assume is there to minimise a resonance in the stock system, Bruce Garland makes custom headers which give around 20 kw increase and i suspect they dont have any sort of restrictor in them. If you can get any footage of the past few years Finke Desert race in the NT there is one part where The Garland Jackaroo is belting down a sand track doing 7000 rpm in 5th gear which was about 220 ks from memory, oh what a glorious sight and sound..

Good luck with your choice, Brad

Yeah, the design of most snorkels will give you a slight ram effect, and properly sealed and installed will also allow you to go swimming. But you do have to drill and cut a lot of holes in the guard to fit one. My set up will have both air pickups high in the rear of the engine bay with a self draining cold air feed. Brad