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Yep, when it's carrying pressurized fuel or oil, I'd rather pay more for quality.

So avoid AliExpress? It's hard to know what brand to go for for such an item as there's so many shit ones that look identical in the pics.

A dash is a 1/16th I think? So -4 AN is 1/4" I think

From skimming forums for next to useless info a few years ago suggests about 300KW if you're not too much of a rough bastard. They're cheap enough though so break one and try again.

Legal if it's factory, not necessarily legal as a retrofit

Yeah screw doing that on a driveway

FUCK THAT SHIT

Bin it, buy new oil Or build a centrifuge

It'll be clean, but it will still have lost a lot of its properties that makes it useful.

Nah, ya just gotta replace it coz it gets burnt first.

Had one in an Atlas(?) that had somehow blown the ends off the injectors. In fact it had managed to gas-axe it's way right through an injector and was pumping cylinder compression back into the fuel rail.

There's not a large difference in oil capacity on modern engines, they're often around 5-6 Litres despite fuel choice, even for small engines like 2L petrols. The bigger diesel utes would be in the 7-8L range, and they do need the pricier DPF safe oils etc, but even the petrols are running stupid expensive stuff in them too. A lot of vehicles also run a 20,000km or more service interval, although at work we still recommend 10k coz no one ever checks their oil and they end up running out.

Lol. Modern engines easily run over $100 in oil alone. I think some of the stuff we carry is about $35/L, for both petrol and diesel. Edit: $100 for a service? Are you missing a digit there? The TD42 is a bit of an exception as it's essentially a small truck engine as opposed to a car engine

Servicing costs aren't really any different. Some fuel filters are a bit pricey, but everything else is on par with petrol

Urgh. Arseholes. It's already like $700 for 10,000km

The internet has informed me you have not gone big enough

Years ago when I took the MS65 through VTNZ they said the chassis numbers didn't match, so I went to Toyota and they had a look and go "meh?" And wrote me a note stating a mixup at the factory (NZ new) and VTNZ were all happy. Had a look at the numbers myself a bit later and couldn't find any discrepancy, everything matched fine. Stuffed if I know what they were on about, but now I have a handy note if I ever wanna swap chassis / tags.

Doesn't everyone?

Gonna whip some 3/4 race cams in too?

That is an incredibly good looking piece of motorvehicle It would look better with the rear tyres releasing more smoke than a Lucas starter motor

Weld up some Aussie spec Roobars? Didn't realize the island was big enough to drive for 5 hours tbh

Weldie weldie...

Can you see the diff nugget through the oil fill hole? Might give you some idea if you can see the centre

Yeah open diff will spin the opposite wheel in reverse if you hold the driveshaft and spin a wheel, but then so will a Torsen LSD.

Safe as fuck