For interest, which 4wd motor deserves the No 1 spot in the last 20yrs

You're a stirrer Axle - lol.

Nissan TD 27 Turbo Diesel would have rate highly in the small engine category.

1HDFTE from the Landcruiser?

Gday Axle!! Would have to be between the Nissan 4.2 TDi or the 100 series diesel.. probably not for performance but on reliability!! Michael

Have you chosen 20 years to exclude the 12HT's

Unfair Umpire!!!

oh for guds sake, what is wrong with you all ????
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1HZ toyo... what else eh ?????
There are zillions around and still going at 400,000 klms on most now dating back to the nintys ......

On arguments please ????? yeh right hahahha
Cheers all......

Axle I think you really need to divide them into petrol and Diesel. I have a friend who got 540000ks out of a maverick(Patrol) petrol and was sold still going.
Nissan use to have the rep as the best engine builder in Japan, sadly that is a thing of the past. But the Rb30 was another golden oldy.
But my vote in the petrol class goes to the 3.5v6 Jack motor. Before I brought mine I asked and engine reconditioner what he thought of them, his reply was he did not really know had never seen a worn out one. Cooked and run out of oil yes but not worn out. Many now are well past 400000ks and have never had the heads off as long as they are not on gas.
Cheers Pete

Got to be the Nissan 3.0Tdi...got to be...surely!!! :-(

I,m gunna play devils advocate in here and nominate another one ...this time a good solid sedan that will compete well with most softroaders on mapped dirt roads...my 1984 Peugeot 505 STI. At the time of writing this ...it has just edged past 568,300 k,s ...and still going well. Is a Petrol fuel injected manual with a LSD...no cancer and everything in it still works including the clock. Be it only a humble sedan....but I reckon it is a milestone that a damn lot of forbys would be glad to achieve hey. It is used as a daily driver to get SWMBO to work and back...town hack...and the ocasional longer trip to Sydney,Dubbo or Bendigo.
And as for the most reliable long lasting diesel in a fourby...has nearly gotta be the humble Nissan TD42 in Patrols...from all accounts anyway.


Cheers Keith

the sliver top nissan 4.2 diesel would be one of the most relaible strongest motor built, in buses they will get a million ks (inlaw had bus compy) mind you was getting good milage out of 2.8 d toyotas as well.

yeah the 3L tojo diesel, my old hiace did 663k before she was retired and had never been apart. 1HD-Fte is another trooper, the RB30 was mentioned, another good engine.TD27s can get 500k + before a rebuild(have a funny story about 1 of them but thats for later) the old holden red motors can do 4 or 5ook also without a rebuild. there are many more.

As for future engines im looking forward to seeing how the new 3.2l 5 cylinder td ford rangers perform.

What deserves No 1 spot ......A lot of the engine recommended - reliability wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding ....of course they are going to last for ever , how about the land rover 4 cyl petrol ....?
what about power & reliability ....... land cruiser 6cyl TD or V8 petrol ,late model Nissan navara TD Triton 3.2 TD I'v got one of these VERY GOOD ......others

Toyota 2H
G60 Nissan
range rover V8
plus all the newer 4wd's

cheers nick

Talking to a chap in Leongatha the other day. Had an old Subaru Brumby ute. Said it was his third. I asked why he kept getting them. He said the first one did over a million, the second 750,000 and the current one was around 400,000

So you have just knocked over your opened can of worms!!!!!

Best, Toyota 1Hz, easy choice and got one.Runners up would be the Nissan TD2.7 in the Teranno's (got one) and Nissan 4.2TD.

My top motor of all time would be the 1.6 litre Ford Escort crossflow motor. I used to rally Escorts (for 27 years, I must be old) and could not kill these motors, easy to maintain, easy to re-build, etc. My last one was abused and raced for 5 years without an oil change or tuneup and was still going well when I gave the car to my son.

Worst would be a tossup, Freelander 1.8 petrol, Freelander V6 (had one), Rangerover 4.6 V8 (had one) - all heaps of trouble in my experience and never again. I turned down a 5 year old Rangie at $20K last year, I have been bitten too many times now by Landrovers and knew the sorid, very sad history of this one.

Stevesub

Why has the Prado 3.0 not got a mention? Isn't a derivative in all the HiLux utes too?
They seem to go on and on.

Can't understand the Nissan 3.0 nomination. They have been going BANG for a few years now. You couldn't trust them, even the new ones would have you listening closely as you drove.

Bill

I'll throw in a under estimated engine (I had one) ,the 2.8 Daihatsu Rocky diesel engine-------------bullet proof.

the new one will be the v8 4.5 toyota diesel 70 series motor

Hi Axle,

Holden Rodeo 2.8turbo diesel, Easily the best( it did win best motor in the best 4wd in the world 13 years running) bullet proof.

Cheers Wilko