3.0l hilux engine in landcruiser ute.

qubert,

Sell the 79 Series and with the money you get for the vehicle, buy a new Hilux.

The money that you will save on fitting the Hilux motor into the 79 Series will run the Hilux for the next 10 years.

Wayne

if your that worried about fuel economy sell the 4by and by a hyundai. 4x4 isnt for people obsessed with lower fuel costs

anyway the cheapest way as has been mentioned for any engine swap is to put an add in the clasifieds for your vehichle while searching for one with the engine you want

If a 3 lt engine goes bang in a Nissan, what hope do you think it would have in a Cruiser, seriously.

Oh by the way, there is a reason why Toyota went with the 4.5 lt V8.

Cheers Steve.

qubert - I assume the 4.2 is non Turbo. They are a hungry motor thats for sure. But the motor is suited to what the car was made for, a work horse. They are slow to take off in first and have no power in top gear, fuel evaporates at 100k+, but they have torque to carry a load. In my experience you normally have to up the size of the motor to save a few pitiful ltrs (ie -then you can work the motor less to achieve the same result). As stated above it would be a lot cheaper to get another car.

Use the $ you would spend doing a conversion, which would cost considerable $, to upgrade to a Landcruiser with the turbo or another brand of car. My rodeo with the 3ltr Common Rail 120kw motor has power to burn and at 110k carrying a load I use 14ltrs per 100k. That is the same consumption of your current motor taking it easy. Cheers Tony

Sell it and buy a V8.
Stuff the fuel costs....You only live once :-))

You would really do that???

sell it! buy a pushbike

You sound like my husband who is rather attached to his 79 series as well.

I drive a '04 Hilux Dualcab (Turbo diesel)
He drives a "05 79 Series (Turbo diesel)

He's got all the figures but on a recent trip to Kalgoorlie where I followed him, the Lux was marginally cheaper (like $30 or something). But the Lux is also significantly lighter, it likes to try and drift around corners as an example. So throw a 1 ton trailer behind both and then see which engine does better - the 4.2L TD would win for sure, particularly in the 5th gear! His car is also notably faster pullling up hill in a 100k zone, whereas mine slows somewhat.

I reckon if he read your original post he'd say you were crazy.

Get a Brunswicks Chev 4.5L V8 instead, power and better economy, that engine won't even feel the wieght of your car! Even though Hubby has a TD in his ute I reckon he'd go back to a V8 in a snap if he had the chance (we had one in our 80 series).