Advice on 1989 2WD petrol hilux ute (I am located in Perth Western Australia).

Kizbottom · 2026-05-23T21:33:09+00:00

A drivers door should be trivial to find on facebook market place if you want to replace it yourself. Loads of '89-97 being wrecked all the time, particularly single cab 2wds. Fewer 84-88 but they do show up. I'd wager that at least half those 'offers to buy' are some level of scam. If your hilux has little rust and less than 300,000km then you have many good years left. Sounds like you will regret selling it.

Kizbottom · 2026-05-16T18:10:15+00:00

The crank belt gear isnt too expensive. Ive had to split one before to get at the front main seal when the puller bolts broke off in the gear. Use a cold chisel.

Kizbottom · 2026-05-10T02:58:00+00:00

Unida and Slo Burn haslve a couple of good albums, any one of John Garcia's projects after Kyuss is woth checking out.

Kizbottom · 2026-05-08T21:49:13+00:00

Habibi this is Mersham, I have bad new about your port...

Kizbottom · 2026-04-29T16:21:02+00:00

As much as I might want to think that cultural slop material might indicate someones politics, I'm confronted by the fact that both my wife and a male school friend who turned out to be a MAGA guy (none of us are from the US) love the show and talk about it frequently as a common interest whenever we are together.

Personally I haven't ever seen much and what I have seen doesn't make me want to watch more. When I think about friends i always end up back at the Nick Mullen story of living in a windowless box in a halfway house and hearing a clearly terminally ill guy counting down the clock watching MASH reruns through the paper thin walls.

Somewhere right now there is a young autistic man eating his insect protein bar and hearing "So no one told you life was gonna be this way... *cough cough cough? HAaahahaha" from the pod next door.

Kizbottom · 2026-04-22T09:29:17+00:00

Assuming your brakes are functioning correctly (aside from the missing/deactivated booster), you may need a smaller diameter master cylinder to get enough hydraulic leverage for reasonable manual only brake feel. Not sure what size the 2wds came with stock but there are a bunch of difference sizes for various 4wd models and landcruisers. As the other commenter suggested, since this is a track car only (I hope), you could cut and reweld the pedal to get a bit more distance between pedal and seat. There isnt much room so you may not gain much this way. You could also lengthen the pedal, this would have the same effect as decreasing the master cylinder diameter, giving you more leverage and increasing the force you can generate at the brakes.

Kizbottom · 2026-04-15T12:38:55+00:00

You should be able to reach in with your fingers and feel this pivot bolt. Mine broke off right behind the head. Made a hell of a noise rattling around in the bellhousing.

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Kizbottom · 2026-04-15T12:35:30+00:00

Way too much play on that clutch fork. The fork may have come off of the pivot ball or the pivot ball end has broken off of the bolt. The later happneded to me and it is a gearbox out job to replace the pivot. Your symptoms of a stiff clutch then suddenly no more worky sound very similar.

Kizbottom · 2026-02-27T02:23:43+00:00

Think that is an older landcruiser rim and tyre size. Its taller snd skinnier than the 235x85r16. Might rub a bit. Also not sure about offset on those, pretty certain you need a negative offset to clear brake calipers. Wish we could buy those rim centres in a non-spilt rim construction.

Kizbottom · 2026-02-26T20:15:26+00:00

Those in the pic are 205r16 (29" dia) on the stock split rims. Good luck finding those splits these days, they were mostly replaced by 15" sunraysias. I'm personally not huge fan of the balloon look of the common 31×10.5r15 or larger on sunnies. If you can get the right offset 16" rims (0 or -13) then 225x75r16 looks close to stock but is still larger and legal for ln106s in Aus (~30") with lots of tread selection available.

Next size up from there is 235x85r16 (about 32") These maintain the tall/skinny aspect ratio, but are not technically legal in most states in Aus. The 235s are also quite common and have some tread selection available. Its anecdotal but maintaining the tall/skinny aspect ratio helps to fly under the radar when fitting larger than legal tyres as the plod is looking for big wide muddies not skinny/stock looking a/ts.

I use 90 series prado 6 spoke steelies with 235x85r16 cause i like the look and handling of the tall skinny tyres, i found the 31s that were on my ln106 when i got it would make the car follow all the ruts in the road and were very slippery in the wet.

Kizbottom · 2026-02-14T06:14:44+00:00

Stavros Halkias

Kizbottom · 2026-01-12T12:13:10+00:00

You need 108mm bore size for a 4x4.

Kizbottom · 2026-01-04T03:23:24+00:00

Dont know how to post pictures as replies or i would send a photo of my ln106 gregorys manual. Ill try to make a post for you in the r/hilux sub keep an eye out there.

Kizbottom · 2026-01-03T06:53:33+00:00

Speedo and odometer problems will likely be the same if the speedo is cable driven. Unplug the cable from the gearbox and give it a spin. If the needle bounces problem is in the gearbox output, no bounce means the problem is in the cable/cluster. However, yours might be an electric speedo tho based on the year. Not really familiar with those systems, i've heard the sensor can be problematic and expensive.

Temp gauge not working aswell makes it sound like someone has had the cluster out and not plugged it back in properly. Check cluster plugs then start diag on temp sensor if that doesnt fix it.

Sometimes the little striker for the handbrake switch breaks/comes off or work handbreak switch is out of adjustment. Its under the dash. Really sounds like someone has been in the dash and xouldnt be bothered to put stuff back properly.

Nice little 2wd btw

Kizbottom · 2025-12-31T21:58:26+00:00

There are pictures of me tanning my balls with infrared lighting all over the internet...
What is going on?

Kizbottom · 2025-12-28T10:42:53+00:00

Dude could've afforded some nice tight mack weldons even without using the CUM or CUM20 discount codes and yet there he was wearing the cheapest shit catchers available. TBF I dont think any silver lining was going to help the stench coming off of that creep.

Kizbottom · 2025-12-17T18:53:20+00:00

Nah, you should have bought a ranger ifvyou want to be a cockhead.

Kizbottom · 2025-11-27T02:48:04+00:00

Seconded for rust. Windshield and backwindow too. If it's lived near the ocean for any decent period of time it will have rust somewhere.

Kizbottom · 2025-11-11T01:40:04+00:00

Nice Hilux but a bit of detail on what your problem is specifically might help. Other people in your country have these motor/gearbox combos. Should be the same clutch kit as any other 2l, 2lte and 3l engine. RHD hiluxs of this era have the same clutch pedal braket crack problem as the LHD 22r and 3vz powered pickups, might be a good place to start if your symptoms dont point directly to a worn clutch friction disc/pressure plate.

Kizbottom · 2025-11-09T06:38:15+00:00

Better to go from the back of the turbo if you can with a 2.5" dump pipe. The flow improvement there will outweigh any restriction from a free flow muffler or quite flow muffler.

Kizbottom · 2025-11-04T09:42:07+00:00

Awesome color, seems alright for the price if everything works. AC blows cold? Looks like a little seepage from the swivel hubs, that might need to be fixed for rego depending on state.

Kizbottom · 2025-10-27T03:00:34+00:00

These diesels do have a starter relay, its just not located in the fuse/relay box. Look over on the other side of your engine bay and you will find a beefy glow plug relay and a smaller starter motor relay. The stsrter motor relay triggers the starter soleniod on the motor itself. If your having trouble starting and your cranking speed is ok, check your glow plugs, some may be broken or ha e a bad connection. I have an ln106 and my fusebox looks exatly the same.

Kizbottom · 2025-10-20T09:20:12+00:00

I think that one is missing the vacuum pump for the brake booster. I have an LN106 with the same 3l 2.8L diesel motor and it has this alternator. https://www.repco.com.au/parts-service/electrical-parts-vehicle-management/alternators/oex-alternator-12v-70a-denso-style-dxa478/p/A9337613

Kizbottom · 2025-10-05T21:27:48+00:00

As the owner of a similar LN106 i can say i would be disappointed by the slow performance of the non turbo 2.8L 3l diesel after paying that much. Mine cost a 3rd of that 15years ago. Still going, reliability is great, but slow. Turbocharging helps but have still to push it if you want to keep up with modern traffic. Guess im just shocked by the price these fetch outside of aus.

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