LandCruiser engine service/diagnostic needed

[theferg]

So my 2F in my FJ60 has been runnin' like crap for a while and I really don't know what is goin' on with it. The thing runs super rough all the time--at idle, low rpms, high rpms, low rpms at higher speed, high rpms at higher speeds, wierd dirty black milky liquid crap comin' out the exhaust (got all over the side of my house where I parked) could be oil, but I the texture doesn't seem like oil, hard starting (even harder now that it's cold as crap, but it was hard before). One thing I do know (though it's not much) is what the dry compression (we forgot to do a wet test) was a couple months ago: #1-150, #2-120, #3-90, #4-140, #5-130 and #6-130. Honestly, I've never had the timing checked nor the valves adjusted in the 2 years I've had it so that could be part of the issues, but I don't think that is all that is goin' on with this rig. It's got ~167K miles on it and I was told by the P.O. that the head was rebuilt at 125K miles. Oh and oil dissapears regularly (about a quart in 250 miles).

Anyway, I don't like workin' on the engine very much and I pretty much hate to work on it when it's freezing stinkin' cold outside and I don't have a garage and the shop I've been usin' to work on stuff is no longer gonna be available... So, the point here is that I don't really want--and frankly don't really have the time or resources or tools--to work on this sucker myself and see what's goin' on so I'm tryin' to find where would be the best place to get this sucker looked at and runnin' good (either here in Cache Valley or down around Salt Lake City--it doesn't matter to me, just as long as they know Cruisers) and if anybody has any ideas on what sort of issues it sounds like I'm havin' and what sort of cost I might be lookin' at to get this sucker runnin' nice. I don't really want to pay over $500 cause I don't have money to just blow and because my plans are to have a 1HZ diesel engine dropped in this summer anyway...

And dammit, keep your funny and stupid comments to yourself please...

-Ferg-

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Ben,

A couple of things...

If its not leaking out, its burning it, oil-burning is part of the engines normal operation, but not nearly a quart every 250 miles, more like a quart every 3000 miles (mine leaks a little and doesn't consume a qt. at oil changes)...

Have you chatted about this with Mastertech Carrol? He knows alot about the 2F motors, has one himself. I would tell you to do the 45 min. valve adjust, but I can only imagine how cold it is up there...

Valve adjust and timing can fix ALOT of running problems, but not oil consumption... that is an issue that must be fixed... take a close look at the exhaust moisture, water is a normal thing for startup (most engines emit H20 at startup.. condensation)... but oil out the tail-pipe is no bueno...