Friday, Feb 12, 2010 at 20:15
We have about 30 of them at work and they seem to have a few problems.
Now this may seem unfair considering they are used for u/g mining, my way of thinking is it just hastens any problems that are likely to arise.
They are actually looking at importing 6 cyl ones from South Africa, the maintenance costs are too high compared with the 79 series 6cyl utes.
1. Some of the doors are rusting where the window pillars meet the door skin.
2. Water leaks in the engines have caused the loss of 3 engines.
3. They are going through air con. condensers at an alarming rate and have been fitting Red Dot roof air cons, the mud and water are causing the problem but the old utes didn't suffer from this.
4. Injectors have been a problem also.
5. 8 hours to change a starter motor.
6. Alternators that are under slung.
They have fitted low water alarms to all utes and I picked one up and drove it a couple of K then off went the alarm. Being a sealed system you tend to rely on the expansion bottle as your guide, it was normal and when the radiator plug was removed it took 5 litres of water.
I have posted these photo's but here are some again.
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Have a good one
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