This Is becoming a bit of a habit!
Can any of you clever people help me?
I am looking into buying a Hiace Super Custom Limited of 1993 vintage, (recently imported).
The engine is a deisel 2 litre turbo charged one.
Embossed on the valve cover are the words 'EFI TURBO'.
is this likely to be an engine that will have overheating problems or is it fairly safe.
The thing is, I just love the look of this vehicle, and although I have always been good at mechanics, (race mechanic Manx Grand Prix), I recently had a heart attack and I am subsequently less able than I was. Any help would be most welcome and thanks in advance.
- (#8477) ron, 11 Feb 04 03:12
I have a 1992 EFI turbo. It was only purchased in October and so far I have had no problems with overheating. Heavy on the fuel but a dream to drive.
- (#8477) Ann Patmore, 11 Feb 04 13:36
If it's an EFI Turbo, then it's petrol turbo, should be pretty quick (By hiace terms). If it's just got 'Turbo' in red writing across the engine then it'll be diesel turbo, but most haices are bigger then 2.0 Diesel, either 2.4 or 3.0 turbo or naturally aspirated. Best thing is to look at the engine code on the chassis plate then post it on here & we'll be able to ID the engine for you.
Regards Rob.
- (#8477) Rob Drinkwater, 11 Feb 04 15:48
Follow this link
http://english.auto.vl.ru/catalog/toyota/
then click on hiace
then click on the year
then all the info comes - very useful too
Chris
- (#8477) chris turner, 11 Feb 04 16:36
I am not sure that you're 100% corrct on this Rob.
The later Hilux Surf's came with an electronically injected tDiesel of 2.4ltrs (2LTE) the early ones were the mech injection (2LT).
I am not certain that it was ever referred to as EFI, but I think it was.
As a result it could be a 2.4ltr 2LTE diesel turbo.
Having said all that I will agree that I have never heard of a 2.0ltr diesel in a Hiace - my HiAce is a 2.0 ltr petrol motoy (3Y) but I have never seeen a turbo petrol HiAce either (that doesn't mean they don't exist though!)
It could be a confusion of the designation - mistaking engine number '2LTE' for meaning 2.0 litres?
Dave.
- (#8477) DaveW, 11 Feb 04 19:24
in the link below , click on the chosen vehicle.
you will note in the specs, they use the term 'efi' on deisel and petrol versions.
ah well, whats in a name anyway!
http://english.auto.vl.ru/catalog/toyota/hiace/1993_8/
- (#8477) chris turner, 13 Feb 04 06:39
I agree that on some vehicles Totota do use the term EFi for the engine managed diesels, indeed this is correct as they too are Electronic Fuel Injection, but (& I stand to be corrected on this) Toyota didn't put a 2 litre diesel in the Hiace, they were 2.4 or bigger. Additionally Toyota use the suffix -E on all their electronic controlled diesels, ie the Lucide went from 3CT to a 3CT-E version in 94-95 when it went electronic. If Ron would bother to come back on here & tell us the engine code we could sort the whole problem out & end all this pure speculation.
Regards Rob.
- (#8477) Rob Drinkwater, 14 Feb 04 02:23