Hello from Canada

[Kermodi wvo]

I just bought a 1996 hilux surf with the 3 litre diesel, just wanted to say hello to all other fellow surf owners.

[Robot]

Hello!

[BioHazard]

Greetings

[POPEYE]

Welcome, post some pics of it when you can

[RebelV8]

Hi and welcome

[galooph]

Welcome aboard!

[Paff]

Whoop

[Kermodi wvo]

I will post some pics when I figure out to do it. I am converting it to run on wvo with a kit from the UK bio tuning is the companies name. Seems like a very good quality kit. It only has 130000 Kms straight from Japan never seen road salt in mint condition. I have changed all the running gear and transmission to amsoil full synthetic, as it gets real cold here in the winter, going to put a snorkel and lift kit with the Bilstein shocks and tundra coils in front and 80 series land cruiser coils with Bilstein shocks in the back.

[Diezel Weazel]

Hi n Welcome enjoy ya stay ....

15+ Years of Surfs .. n Faultless to a "T" is my Yota !! So I got another ..

[POPEYE]

I will post some pics when I figure out to do it. I am converting it to run on wvo with a kit from the UK bio tuning is the companies name. Seems like a very good quality kit. It only has 130000 Kms straight from Japan never seen road salt in mint condition. I have changed all the running gear and transmission to amsoil full synthetic, as it gets real cold here in the winter, going to put a snorkel and lift kit with the Bilstein shocks and tundra coils in front and 80 series land cruiser coils with Bilstein shocks in the back.

It looks great, real good condition and as you say straight from the land of the rising sun you don't get rust, unlike here, you can tell the surfs from the four runners because of the rot,

some nice plans ahead as well, I had a swift look at the bio site and the kits are pretty good, some years ago I went for a twin tank arrangement (the tank from a Land rover 110 fitted nicely under where the drop down spare tyre went), Made my own heat exchangers and all system heated from the engines cooling system, swirl tank, the whole nine yards, But as I it was nearing completion the government caught on to the fact they may be losing out on revenue, the price in the supermarkets shot up past derv at the pumps prices, WVO became harder to acquire free (they wanted to sell you their old $hit instead of you taking it away for them), And the government capped the amount you could produce and use to I think 2.000 lt's when they found out thy couldn't recover enough revenue to cover the cost of administration and collection or the revenue,
So upshot is I stripped out all the stuff and the WVO filtering thing I made, just not worth the aggro and it popped my pump seals, had to thin it with turps/white sprit, kerosene, petrol, owt else I could find,
If it gets very cold you might want to think about fuel line heaters and a deep cycle battery, also a swirl tank with it's own heater will give you a ready-to-go supply till the engine gets hot,
Keep the pics coming as you go, it's slow here but you will get reply's,

[Kermodi wvo]

We have so much veggie oil here as hardly anyone uses it. I get 500 litres a month just from one restaurant and could easily get another 500. I use a centrifuge to clean my oil down to .5 micron which is really clean, the veggie filter on my dodge truck with the cummins motor has over 20000 kms on the same filter. I expect the surf will be the same. Because it is so cold here in the winter down to -35 Celsius I will be using an arctic fox hot fox tank heater hose on hose wrapped in pipe insulation in to heated filter and finally through the flat plate heat exchanger, this surf is a bugger to convert as there is no room under the hood I have to mount the heated filter on the side of the veggie tank behind the back seats passenger side. I really love this surf it's a great little truck good on fuel I don't know what is supposed to get but I did 603 kms on 50.3 litres that's 34 mpg on the hwy at 60 mph is that good? When I get the conversion done I will send pics

[AlexKzn130]

I really love this surf it's a great little truck good on fuel I don't know what is supposed to get but I did 603 kms on 50.3 litres that's 34 mpg on the hwy at 60 mph is that good? When I get the conversion done I will send pics

welcome Kermodi

yes 34mpg is good not sure the surfs can manage any better so thumbs up all round

Alex

[POPEYE]

Look forward to the pics mate, looks like you have the conversion well covered,
like you say there aint a lot of spare room under the bonnet which makes things awkward at times, I put the veg tank heater inside the tank at the rear, cut a hole in the top and made the exchanger from 22mm plumbing copper (I was a plumber) and had it nickel plated as someone poped up and said that some scandavian country had tested veg oil on copper and it had degraded due to contact with the copper, what thy failed to say was that this was food grade oil and degraded after long periods of contact, but I had it plated anyway

I had a second exchanger also made from copper attached to the L/H inside front chassis rail, this thing looked like a nickel plated trumpet worked ok though, good luck with the conversion, Ian

[NiftyNev]

-35. I'm freezing now and it's about 15Deg C. I wou8ld not survive there.

Nev.