skitzy 95 series

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Hi,This is my...
Year: 2000
Make: TOYOTA
Model: LANDCRUISER PRADO
Colour: BLUE
Body Style: WAGON
Transmission: Automatic
Engine Size: 3.0L
Badge: GXL
Series: KZJ95R
full time four wheel drive



thes were taken with in 12 hours of picking up the car..pritty much standed apart from some marks on the inisde and some fine scratches n few cheaps.I have a list of things that i would like to do to the car,some things are easy to find n some things are alittle bit harder to find but the biggest factor is money for all the things i want to do.

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Nice blank canvas there skitzy, and a very tidy 95!

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driving it back home,i started to get to coober pedy and the car had started to over heat,so i did what i could to try n stop it from hitting the red line even more.while i was in coober pedy i had to top up the radiator with water n coolant..(i no you not ment to mix coolant but had no choice).
got home ok so a trip to super cheap to get coolant (flushing time)...as time past i serviced the girl n that way i started with a clean plate.i still was have some problems with the car over heating every no n then or i could smell coolant every now n then,all so some times i could go days with out any problems, i had days were i was going through the over flow bottle and some times i could move the car like a meter and the bottle would bubble like hell so started with what i no, what it could be,so i checked earth points,battery,conectors,the floor on the left hand side under the glove box,very were under the car,engine bay and hoses..so i replaced the thermaste,after market radiator..

...so the new toy in and what not..everything seemed to be all good didnt have a problem..

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the first trip in the girl,
so a few weeks later my gran,mum and my self packed up the car to head to wa to drop mum home..so a cross the tanami track we whent..
a long the way we had a some little problems,

a pic or two of problem...got over to my mums place and checked over every thing,mainly the over flow bottle..laod up again and come home the same way..



http://www.exploroz.com/TrekNotes/Re...ami_Track.aspx

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i had done the big trip plus around town driving so bout 5,500km since the radiator i started to have the problems with the car over heating every no n then or i could smell coolant every now n then,all so some times i could go days with out a problem,so i got the shits and did tests and started to ask around and told peopl;e the problem and they all told me the same thing as what i already had done and looked at.one place said have a look at the water pump..bt the stage i had the shits big time so i shopped around n looked around and picked up a new waterpump,timing belt,vrs kit,head blots abd a new complet head..
thanks to http://www.japparts.com.au/
so evrthing was all sorted n ready to go,so a big thanks to my mate we replaced everything in a day..so i found out the old head precomp chambers had crackes in all 4.....problem fixed runs well

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Yeah mate common problem. As soon as you mentioned about bubbles in over flow bottle in your post above I new what your problem was going to be. Ive been there and done that to. I bet the people who sold it to you knew it was stuffed too (bastards). At least I spent 4k on mine and sold it to a lovely lady who I informed of the issues and I did/still do keep in contact with her and the car hasn't missed a beat. I can sleep at night knowing I did the right thing. Glad you got it all up and running ok. You should be write now that its all done.......Cheers Steve (did you buy privately or caryard ??)

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Hey man, sorry to be a pain. But it's a little hard to read your posts!

Anyway, that aside, the Prado looks great and wish you well in your endeavours of fixing the head!

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Geez you did a good job of killing that maxxis tyre lol.........Cheers Steve

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Hey Skitzy bit of bad luck there mate. Nice, wish mine was diesel. A question is that radiator one of them cheap ebay ones?. Reason for asking my mate bought one for his GU and the fitting on the bottom of the radiator from the trans line broke off and stuffed his auto. Keep an eye on this if yours is one of them.

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Nice blank canvas there skitzy, and a very tidy 95!

Thanks and it means I can do things to the car I want to it and how i want and in joy doing it

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Yeah mate common problem. As soon as you mentioned about bubbles in over flow bottle in your post above I new what your problem was going to be. Ive been there and done that to. I bet the people who sold it to you knew it was stuffed too (bastards). At least I spent 4k on mine and sold it to a lovely lady who I informed of the issues and I did/still do keep in contact with her and the car hasn't missed a beat. I can sleep at night knowing I did the right thing. Glad you got it all up and running ok. You should be write now that its all done.......Cheers Steve (did you buy privately or caryard ??)

Yes It was from a car yard, since its been fixed it has been running great..

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Hey man, sorry to be a pain. But it's a little hard to read your posts!

Anyway, that aside, the Prado looks great and wish you well in your endeavours of fixing the head!

Sorry about that,but thanks for telling me,head is fixed and the car runs great

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Geez you did a good job of killing that maxxis tyre lol.........Cheers Steve

Yes did a good job..it took the mob at the tyre place in halls creek 25min just to get the tyre of the rim...

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Hey Skitzy bit of bad luck there mate. Nice, wish mine was diesel. A question is that radiator one of them cheap ebay ones?. Reason for asking my mate bought one for his GU and the fitting on the bottom of the radiator from the trans line broke off and stuffed his auto. Keep an eye on this if yours is one of them.

Yer I got it shipped in from some mob on eBay,thanks for the heads up..

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Looks in great shape. Pity about the problems. Hopefully you've seen the last of them.

I'm sure you'll have great fun adding your mods to it.