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Well, 

Turns out it wasn't because of the hole in the exhaust. It was because....wait for it....the car was running on zero ml of engine oil. Yeah, it never occured to me to check the level of engine oil. Topped it yesterday and works just fine.

I heard that new law bbq is prohibited in desert aswell.

1 minute ago, desertdude said:

Well then keep suffering the consequences and the cost, eventually people will get tired of your shit and just stop responding.

And a hole in the exhaust, makes a straight pipe not! 

come on. really?

Well until you can please reply

28 minutes ago, desertdude said:

Sorry to sound crude but you are acting like a real doofus kid here, doing all sorts of stupid and dumb things in order to look and sound "cool" lowering your front suspension, drilling holes in your exhaust, WTF man! Get a grip dude. 

My advise : STOP IT ! 

The car smells of gas because it is running rich hence decreased MPG, because of that hole you drilled before the cats. Go to any cheap Irani shop give him a 20 dh note and to weld that hole up. 

I wouldn't suspect the temp sensor because Land Cruiser temp gauge hardly goes above C in peak summertime in the Desert maybe it will go up to less than 1/4 of the way up.  

Urm thanks. Although I'm just a guy in the process of making. Unless I am doing a private chat with you in which you tell me what will happen if you do the following, I will keep doing this. So get ready to deal with the load of my horseshit cuz that is what we do here in carnity right?

 Also, a hole this small would cause the mpg to go down this much? wierd. I read that straight pipe makes MPG better. :/

Also I thought that you need a tune to make your car to run rich. Running rich cause backfire in the exhaust right?

So probably after new year I am gonna visit Sharjah because I heard that there are a lot of junk or salvage yards there. I wanted to salvage some body parts for my land cruiser because much of it is beat up. First I want to know how do these junk yards work? Can I take any part that I can find from a junk car? Say I found a bumper that would normally cost 300 DHS from a store what would it cost here? 

In the end can someone put down the coordinates to a good one?

1 minute ago, Rahimdad said:

In low gear the traction control is automatically turned off, when in 4 high you have to manually keep the traction control button pressed until 2 yellow lights appear on your cluster. You will have crazy power in high. When the vehicle has traction control on, in the sands the wheels are slipping so the engine cuts the power. With traction control off you are good to go.

Looking forward to seeing you soon and introducing you to some safety tips as well as your vehicle in a new light.

I can't see the tc button in my car :'(

2 hours ago, treks said:

Why did you drill a hole in the exhaust system anyway? 

Anyway, @Barry is right- if the ECU gets a signal saying the engine is cold, it will adjust the fuel trims to improve combustion- since ti thinks the engine is cold. This works much like a choke used to work on a carburetor, so getting the temp gauge issue fixed should be your first priority, immediately after plugging the hole in the exhaust. 

urm sounds cool.

2 hours ago, Barry said:

Drilling a hole in the down pipe before the cat is a problem. Exhaust gas is not running through the full system. I.e. It's not reaching the lambda sensors. Lambda sensors analyze the exhaust gas and send a signal to the ECU to tell it how the engine is performing. The ECU in turn, adjusts the fueling to suit. If it's not getting proper lambda readings, the fueling won't be correct.

Temperature sensor is also important. If it's sending a signal to the ECU telling the ECU that the engine is cold, more fuel will be requested. This can cause all sorts of long term problems never mind the short term issue of fuel consumption.

These are both issues that you need to fix. Exhaust is easy, stick a dab of weld in the hole. Don't bother with exhaust putty, it will blow out again. Check operation of temperature sensor and fit a new one if required. They're not expensive and 5 minute job to fit. I assume you haven't done anything stupid like take the thermostat out?

Last thing, get under the car and visibly inspect the tank and fuel lines. Make sure you haven't hit a rock and punctured the tank or shook a fuel line loose. Check EVERYTHING front to back. You won't see a wet patch because petrol evaporates quickly but you will see staining.

Hmmm, welding not really at my disposal but the hole is really super small. 2 mm to be precise. Will a screw do the job? I think something has gotten loose. No the temp gauge is the same from the day the car was bought. And no I didn't take the thermostat out.

Hello gearheads,

So for the past few days the fuel consumption of my LC has gone up drastically. I am getting super poor MPG. previously the MPG was not a lot different from a toyota Prado. Well now, yesterday the fuel tank was topped up (180 dhs) and Jebal Ali to dubai to Al Ain and back again in the previous order the tank is almost empty, like on the last bar before E on the fuel gauge. The thing is I cant see any leaks of sort. 

So what info do I have:

The car smells of petrol all the time(driving or stopped).

This has been happening after the desert trip.

I also drilled in the straight pipe right before the catylic converter(if that could cause it).

Help? Thanks.

Also, the temp gauge on the tach always stays at cold maybe sometimes it would go a little high but always C. Why am I mentioning it is because I read somewhere that if the engine reads cold there will be more petrol provided to the engine to make it hot.IDK 

the reason I am posting my problems here is because it is better than taking it to mechanic and possibly getting ripped of. Also I don't know a good garage that does good work on cruisers for the price.

Thanks.

4 hours ago, Barry said:

Takata recall. Google it. 24 billion dollars worth of faulty airbags. Most manufacturers are affected. 

?? 24 what? That was right in the plums.

9 hours ago, treks said:

In L4 you had twice the traction you had in L2, since the front diff was now engaged. However, when you are climbing dunes the thing you need most is momentum- if you have enough of it, you don't need as much traction and if you get it right, you can get to the top of the dune much more easily. 

The only way to learn how to get momentum right is to join as many drives as you can, and to listen to, and watch, experienced drivers.  

3 hours ago, sertac said:

You should join our Friday drives. Than you can get information from experienced drivers and become much better.

Thanks all I look forward to joining any drive that is most possible for me. Although treks and desertdude, you misunderstood or maybe I wasn't clear. I was driving in High ratio in the start and because my car is automatic I was using Gears L and 2 (on the auto gearbox not the off road one which sort of gives oyu more control over your gears like a manual car). I know I hit the diff lock as soon as I touched sand. As you were saying that I would run out of gears, that was not the case. I hardly hit the red line on L (while drivng in High ratio so the 2nd gear was not needed the entire time. Even in the first gear while climbing the rpm would go down and down even though I had traction I was forced to turn around. But in offroad gear L4 I had crazy power. I could feel it. The rpms stayed up in the first gear until the tires gave up and at highest rpm the car sounded a lot louder compared to high ratio.(In the land cruiser auto 2001 there is a diff lock, Off road gears go by H[used this to drive on road the same I was using first in the sand] N [neutral] and L4[crazy power]). I feel that the engine has lost it!? I was wondering if it would be trouble driving on L4 the whole time. 

BTW I did feel less power the first time I went to Bidayer aswell(the engine took forever to rev up). 

It is terribly hard to explain this but I'll end it here. I trust it will be enough for you to understand.

7 hours ago, desertdude said:

Practice practice practice. Its like any other skill, the more you do it.The better you get at it, and slowly your confidence level increases. Doimg sideys or side sloping otherwise as its known it not recommended at all for newbies, its an acquired skill and you can read an entire library on the subject and still suck at it. Practical real world experience is where its at. But for now. Go straight up and straight down. Just get used to driving on sand and how you and your car react to it. As for the L4 first of all sorry Treks probably not familiar with the vehicle hence his analysis was inaccurate. The diff lock on your cruiser is a center difflock which you should engage the second you hit sand. You can drive with an open center diff but your car will struggle more and more chances of getting bogged down. Low range are short gears and you can get too much speed i.e momentum and even in an under powered vehicle if you get enough of it you can traverse some decent dunes. L2 youll run out of gear very soon and thats what happened. 

Learn to drive in just D and hone your skills there. Low range for only when you are stuck or have a tricky situation ahead. 

 

Why tho?

Hello,

Today was my second trip to bidayer or second ever trip to the desert. Although, it was with just one car again so I couldn't harvest the true potential of desert driving. I did not go in too deep for I had the fear of getting stuck and not getting any help. Although during this trip I was more experienced, I was even more scared. Not scared that the terrain is bad but just scared that the car would flip over. Even though I watched countless videos and read multiple forums on how to drive in sand properly, how not to fight gravity and stuff, I still was scared even though i was driving the car properly. I think if this fear continues then I might lose my interest to the desert which would be very hard and emotional. I want your help to boost my confidence, how not to be scared. 

Also I saw an Arab ripping his land cruiser sideways on a dune. What was peculiar? The whole time he had his wheel turned up to the top of the dune which means he was fighting gravity hard yet, he did not flip over. I'm confused. Explain please?

Also I this time I managed to crush a part of the front bumper. But, it just needs some paint, I think!

Also, when I was scaling the back side of the big red dune, I diff locked and use gears L and 2. I couldn't make the half of the dune!(no power). Then I switched the offroad gear to L4 and guess what? 2times better. The car went crazy(huge power!). How? I am confused! explain please. what did i do wrong first? why was there no power before?

Thanks and Crazy Driving!

As you all know, when you get stuck in the sand, getting pulled is the first thing that comes to mind which means you need have tow cable as the most important accessory. 

Although, it is my first time buying any of these things so I don't know which one to get. I saw a strap for 40 dhs which I cant say was decent quality because I don't what a decent strap looks like. It had a breaking load of 4000kgs and limit of 2000kgs. 

Then there was steel cable with simple hooks on either side for 20dhs. Again, I cant say if it was decent quality because I don't know what to look for in a quality cable. Although, there was no written weight limit on the cable packaging. Do you mind helping? which one should I get? Even if any of those lasts me one day I will be happy and I think 40 dhs is a bargain, or is it because I don't know what a good strap or cable should cost.

Although, if both of them are crap what and where should I get it from. I wouldn't spend a lot on it because I am not a hardcore offroader and my trips are severely limited.

Thanks.

1 hour ago, desertdude said:

Back on topic.Pagani and Konnisegggggeeeeeesssieeg habe the worst names. Zonda, Huwayra.CSX etc etc etc

I disagree. I quite like those names. It sort of seems like names of foreign wines. Expensive foreign wines.

Renault Duster?? Please no. 

Then there are some manufacturers that with the combination of their name and logo makes you wanna go jump of a building.

Take daihatsu and daewoo for example.

1 hour ago, treks said:

I can't even think of a suitable response to this.... 

go wild.

It wasn't being used in the sand so temporarily I thought why not use them torsion bars. It looked so good.

15 minutes ago, Barry said:

 

It won't lock, i.e. spin one wheel. Usually when it gets to that stage, it's banjaxed and needs rebuilt. Without stripping and inspection, the easiest thing you can do is fill it up and see if it still works. Probably worth dropping the old oil out and seeing what it looks like first. If it's black and smells clutchy, it's not a good sign.

That happens but the other wheel does spin but with little power compared to the other wheel.

14 minutes ago, shadow79 said:

lsd oil usually does not come ready you have to mix a small bottle of clutch oil with the diff oil and then pump it at the differential...keep it at the required level or else you will be facing a good repair bill later on...

symptoms of low lsd oil?

Just now, shadow79 said:

usually there are washers at fill plug...

Could have gotten loose. What are the risks associated with having less lsd oil?

2 minutes ago, Barry said:

There's only really 4 places it can leak. The big seal around the housing cover, the bung, the pinion seal and the 2 seals at the end of the axle.

I think it is from where you fill it up.

12 minutes ago, treks said:

The weight of the engine acts on the springs and shocks anyway, no matter how the torsion bars are tensioned. Maybe you should find out where the car was fixed and go and ask the people there what they found?  

Yes, I have the same doubt because mechanics siphoning your money has become really common.

Although 9 against 1 i believe that the engine somehow was resting on the shocks and springs not how it should. Hard to explain that is why this explanation is so weak. I will check with the guy. Although feel free to add in your suggestion.

right

49 minutes ago, Rahimdad said:

As far as I know My tank were only AWD no 4x4 models.

thanks for the reply. What i really meant was is there a 2wd 2006 murano. The thing is me and friends are going into sand and my friend doesnt know about his car well. he says that his murano is not a 4 wheel drive/all wheel drive.