Misfire, fault code 32?

[Damon]

Hello!
Long time reader, first time poster....

I have a 94 3.0 TD Surf, I love the car but what a lemon it's been!

Bought it from a well known Surf/Paj dealer in The South. In the three months I've owned it the starter motor has packed in, the exhaust rotted off and now it isn't running at all right.

Symptoms are - after the glow plugs go off, it seems to surge the revs up and down by 500 RPM in a regular motion, when you're being gentle on the throttle. I also have a very occasional misfire feeling at higher speeds.

I've checked the fault code and it's telling me "32"

I was sent to a garage by the dealer who said "diesel pump, you'll have to go to Lucas Service" He didn't seem that interested in fixing it for me.

I looked the codes up on the net and 32 is "Air Flow Meter" on the regular Toyota fault codes, does the Surf TD have a different list of fault codes?


Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this!

[NiftyNev]

Quote from a member on the Aussie site concerning a similar problem.

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"From the manual I'm reading code 32 is an "open or short in injection pump connection resistor circuit". The trouble area, 1.injection pump connection resistor circuit. 2. injection pump connection resistor. 3. engine ECU.
This would possibly explain the surging"

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Nev

[TonyN]

I looked the codes up on the net and 32 is "Air Flow Meter" on the regular Toyota fault codes, does the Surf TD have a different list of fault codes?

I think you've found a petrol fault chart, Nev's answer is the right one, check all the plugs around the fuel pump. It may be a sender on the pump has died, or my have **** in it, I'd run a bottle of redex through it, check the plugs, maybe change the fuel filter is case it plugged and if that doesn't work, tell the dealer to sort it out!!!

To be honest, starter contacts generaly wear after 70,000 odd miles, and a rusty exhaust is no fualt of the truck, so its hardly a lemon!! Try buying a 2.4 and then the head cracking after 2 weeks!

[Damon]

Thanks so much Nev, I've contacted that poster.

Damon.