3.0 Turbo diesel Patrol problems

Well!

I had a 4.2 GU before. Did about 190,000K's in it. Nice, but bleep it was SLOW! Even after squeezing about 30KW more from it by blueprinting, bigger exhaust and pump recalibration.

The 3.0 that I have now has a bigger exhaust, D-tronic and better filters, is MUCH nicer in power delivery (except for take-offs where the 4.2 kicks it's arse!) but I'm finding that people may be having cylinder-head problems, turbo shagging faults and such.

Currently, The NSW Police at Cooma have two Patrols that have had stuffed engines, my mate has a Patrol with 140,000K's on it with blown cylinders 1 and 2 (and he's religious about his servicing), the work Patrol has had upgrade has a blown turbo. Something is missing with the reliability eh?

I had a 3.0 Gu

July 2000 Build

drove 99270 in it prior to trading in on a New Prado

Problems i had:

Seized Idler Pulley / A/C Compressor (also took out the Fan belt and Fan) Warranty

As above but this time water pump dead, alternator and a few other bits. No Warranty $4500 fix, no parts had to wait 2 weeks

Clutch gone at 55,000 (went Heavy Duty then) No Warranty $1500 fix - 1 week

Cracked Flywheel - replaced Warranty - 1.5 weeks to fix

Just prior to trade, Leaking water pipe (cracked weld) 2 weeks to get part, traded it in before the parts arrived.

My brother is on Gearbox number 3, Engine Number 2, AC and Idler number 3, has also done a few air flow sensors, had his turbo rebuilt etc.

Steve

I WANT A THREE LTR GU OH YES I DO!

YIKES!!!

RUN FOR THE HILLS!

My clutch is fine, but the gear box is always SLOW to sync between 2,3 and 4. I never use 5th below 80 cause the engine speed is fine and 5th is a weak point in any design.

The engines seem to be running far to close to distruction for my likeing. I may need to get a V8 conversion if the thing does go south.

We did a clutch for a mates 4.2 a few months ago, $650 was the deal, with a heavy duty Bendex jobby.