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by **Ae92typeX** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:09 pm

This week ive decided to borrow a surf to drive around and do some work on, having not had much to do with them before Ive got afew Q's

How does one get the timing belt warning light to go off when the belt is changed?- I guess its just a case of resetting something in the diags box, anyone know what exactly?

Also, the gauge area has a green and a orange light for the turbo- what does each mean?

If it makes a diff its a 1990 2.4 diesel.

by **Mr Revhead** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:01 pm

on some toyotas theres a bung in the clear cover of the speedo. pull that out and use a pen to push the button behind it.

on others the dash comes out.

by **Alex B** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:22 pm

mmm 2.4 surf pretty well known for being well gutless as

by **Ae92typeX** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:12 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:on some toyotas theres a bung in the clear cover of the speedo. pull that out and use a pen to push the button behind it.

on others the dash comes out.

Sweet, cheers for that, I'll check it out tomorrow

pyro_sniper2002 wrote:mmm 2.4 surf pretty well known for being well gutless as

sure aint no race car. seems fine for 4x4 stuff, but as I said, just borrowing for a week, last week was a falcon, at least im with toyota this week

by **Silent Knight** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:37 pm

watch out for them.....they are like a 7M :twisted:

now you don't have bhg...now you do lol

by **Ae92typeX** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:46 pm

yea, heard they are one of the worst toyota diesels of late. This ones pretty good all round, but while I have it for the week im just doing some work on it.
no intention of keeping it, its just to plonkin big for my needs atm

Me, me, me, me..... · by **Just_Juzz** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:10 am

My old man has one.... it is auto, and a POS in my opinion.

Untold problems, not that great off road, as it isn't a true 4x4.

Get 2 wheels to loose traction and your stuffed basically.

by **Ae92typeX** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:19 am

fury muff....so back to my question,
can anyone tell me what the two lights for the turbo are?, its not a high low boost setting, I have no idea what it could be really.

by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:48 am

oops forgot about that
green is on boost, the other is a warning light.

if you have one that doesn thave the bung in the dash for t/belt
you pull the dash cluster out and on the back is a screw
marked either t/belt or sw. take the screw out and screw it back into the other hole beside it.

by **gordon77** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:49 am

on my bosses land cruiser (goes very well :lol:

) it has the green and red lights too - i think the green one is for boost and the red one for vacum.... but ive never seen the red one come on

by **CozmoNz** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:37 am

gordon77 wrote:on my bosses land cruiser (goes very well ) it has the green and red lights too - i think the green one is for boost and the red one for vacum.... but ive never seen the red one come on

because deisels dont run any vac....

they are always at full vac 0 boost.

your foot controls the fuel, not the air

. Hook up a boost guage and watch.

by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:58 pm

it has nothing to do with vacuum.... red one is overboost warning

if it has no vacuum how does it draw in fuel/air?

Caldina GTT · by **Inane** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:05 pm

by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:09 pm

pump is what supplies fuel pressure to the injectors

still needs vaccum in the cylinders to draw in the air it needs to run

by **spencer** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:32 pm

of course it has vac jesus it still has pistons that draw downward making a vaccum. And the red light is over boost pull the wastegate pipe off and it comes on and your surf goes way hard then bang

by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:07 pm

surf goes way hard then bang

but very true

by **Undertow** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:16 pm

Pretty sure the orange is the check engine light

by **CozmoNz** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:58 pm

ke70wagon20v wrote:of course it has vac jesus it still has pistons that draw downward making a vaccum. And the red light is over boost pull the wastegate pipe off and it comes on and your surf goes way hard then bang

i mean as in restriction.

theres no restriction on it... no tb, no *steady vac*. of course there is, but since theres no restriction, its going to be at 0 vac anyway.

7psi outside the engine, 7psi inside the engine... add boost.

by **Ae92typeX** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:52 pm

not engine check light, has a seperate one of them.

So green is boost and red is overboost.
Im assuming these models overboost often then?- to warrant putting in a warning light to tell you it is?

by **Mr Revhead** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:30 pm

thats like saying they have 4wd casue they go offroad often.... :wink:

im unaware of any overboost problems, dont know why they did it.

some diesels have throttle bodies.

if its sucking cosmo, how can it be 0 vac? if it was 0 vac it would run. ALL combustion engines need vacuum to run

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