by martynvella on Tue, 14 Mar 2017 4:01 +0000
Turns into a mammoth job. Since I have been doing my own servicing I spread the oils out over a couple of services, also like to change the transmission oil, well at least 4 litres of it every 50k on the recommendation of Penrite.
Next service is the 150k so by the time I have done the engine oil and filter, water pump, timing belt kit and coolant as well as the EGR blanking plate and EGR valvebody clean I don't think ill have the determination to crawl underneath and start draining diff and transfer case oils and brake fluid as well, seems like just yesty I did all that and they are not LSD anymore either so I'm sure an extra 10 k isn't going to kill them, especially when it has been all onroad driving in the last 40k with very little towing.
Those service intervals in the book are calculated for hard working utes in severe conditions, and also to meet Toyotas estimates of recovering costs by the end of its service life.Other than the engine oil nothing is working very hard in most of our utes.
Ask the oil companies tech advisors for an estimated life of their lubricants.