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Bluey

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I must say anyone towing a van must get a EGT gauge and maybe a bigger exhaust for there car I really drive by it now my water temp is fine but powering up a hill today I reached 600 degrees on the EGT gauge which is far to hot you can drive all day at 550 deg but if it starts going over that its getting very warm 590 deg its time to back off and as soon as you do temp drops it is fantastic cause I know what im doing to the motor even when water temp is under half all the money on crap things we bye we should invest in thing like this to watch the performance and heat in our motors cause over time heat is a diesels enemy and will hurt them and can shorten there life ,,,,,,,, I can only guess what I was doing to prado powering up hills thinking it tows great which it dose but I was probably helping to cook it internally pistons getting far tooooooooo hot !!!!!!!! so it will be money well spent if you plan to keep your car for long time just my half penny
 
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I must say anyone towing a van must get a EGT gauge and maybe a bigger exhaust for there car I really drive by it now my water temp is fine but powering up a hill today I reached 600 degrees on the EGT gauge which is far to hot you can drive all day at 550 deg but if it starts going over that its getting very warm 590 deg its time to back off and as soon as you do temp drops it is fantastic cause I know what im doing to the motor even when water temp is under half all the money on crap things we bye we should invest in thing like this to watch the performance and heat in our motors cause over time heat is a diesels enemy and will hurt them and can shorten there life ,,,,,,,, I can only guess what I was doing to prado powering up hills thinking it tows great which it dose but I was probably helping to cook it internally pistons getting far tooooooooo hot !!!!!!!! so it will be money well spent if you plan to keep your car for long time just my half penny


when anyone asks me, "whats the first Mod I should do to my 4x4...........??"
I always answer

Boost, EGT's, Water Temp, Oil Pressure & Battery monitoring

all the lift kits and new mud tyres and snorkels wont help if the engine is RS from lack of knowledge of whats going on
 

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few more mods today new GT plus tinting front legal back one shade darker its a nickel alloy based tint 99% block out

also had a full touch screen radio C/D fitted full road maps and off road maps thanks to @dagree as he has one I fitted rear camera for car in the number plate light witch dose not effect light to numberplate ,,, camera is very good ,,,, also ran cable for the van when I fit the camera to it its going to take a while to get courage to drill into roof of the van my luck 20mm off centre DOH !!!!! so it will take a lot of head scratching measuring looking better check again once I put cruiser back together plastic panels inside as far as I know its ready for NSW trip at Christmas
 

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Wires run up inside the square tube...... If you do it this way just make sure you leave enough slack at the bottom to allow for the swing down/up action! Get a good view from behind!
Reverse Camera Install 001.jpg
 

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I will try to make this short
Left this morning and the cruiser went well driving into the devils breath and up a lot of climbs in the heat the people eho worked on the car said watch your gas temps in the heat as when its hot everything heats up quick stayed under half most of the time but a bit over half at times when climbing could realy feel diffrance driving it in heat she has a sweet spot but its 115 to 120 not good for police but she likes it there all was good untill 10 oclock when air con started blowing hot air WHAT!!!!!!!@@@###
I think the bloody thing is stuffed as it has new gas and theres marking on it from the wreakers its 35 tomoz again i mite swear a bit ###@@@×××%%€£¥₩ me
I found new ones on computer 450 new 5 year warranty but im here cant get it delivered to van park over chrissy as we may leave its still not there i may swear again the rotton bloody &&€€££¥¥₩₩=%/$#÷@×+! thing !! Leave early try to beat heat fat chance we now have stayed in both van parks in Gouldburn my advice keep going or stop before you get here there both crap .... all day with hot kids again tomoz windows down like today sweat dripping in my eyes so i cant see the heat from my fire wall is unreal my console is also very hot tryed to put insulation in there but hasnt helped it was hot before but at least i had air con but no more cant wsit till i hit the pool tomoz as this park dosnt have one so for now im running at full temp bugger me
 
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Bluey

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Sounds rough @Bluey but, I'm sorry, :sorry: you made me laugh. :pound:I do know what it's like with kids in a hot car, when my kids were young only the expensive imported cars had air con and, yes, there were cars when I was young. :p
For me its not bad but the heat comming through the fire wall and in the middel console is realy bad needs to be looked at somethings not right im glad i make you laugh at least im getting a smile today auto temp light came on and she overheated stoped on side of road for a while bonnet up more laughs for me but im not laughing but 2 people stoped making sure we where ok which was very good of them stay tuned more overheating stories to come
 

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Sounds like you decided not to come down through Canberra and batemans?
No i took road 92 as planed and back fired on me when i took prado through there no worries but not today new bridge at olen ford open wichh was good no traffic 4 cars passed me cruiser just couldnt handle the hill any climbs it didnt like
 
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