Hello RR. I've lurked about for a good long while and thoroughly enjoy the forum. I've been in the land of the moderns for the most part these last few years apart from a brief flirtation with a purple K11, so haven't had anything to contribute from a personal standpoint.
I've now got a 2002 (may be a 2000, I'll double check as my memory is intermittent) Touring Hiace to fix up and get back on the road. Not strictly retro but possibly interesting enough to warrant a post or two at some point. It's a Japanese market model that's been in the family for some years. It has the 3RZ-FE 2.7 motor, 'in the tree' auto and is RWD. She runs and drives, has had "professional" work done on the engine twice, has had loads of parts thrown at her but was parked up a month or so ago with a persistent running issue. I have ideas about the cause but I'd like a workshop manual to refer to as I'm working. Either my websearch-fu is lacking or it really is difficult to find such documents, at least for this particular model. I have come across a good .pdf detailing how to check and set valve clearances so will be chasing down the source of that for other documents but if any JDM van/bus fans are on here with helpful resources I'd appreciate the pointers. The motor has been used in a lot of commercial/4x4 applications so I will probably do okay there, but the Touring Hiace/Regius (appears to be the same) specific stuff maybe not...
Thanks for looking!
I've now got a 2002 (may be a 2000, I'll double check as my memory is intermittent) Touring Hiace to fix up and get back on the road. Not strictly retro but possibly interesting enough to warrant a post or two at some point. It's a Japanese market model that's been in the family for some years. It has the 3RZ-FE 2.7 motor, 'in the tree' auto and is RWD. She runs and drives, has had "professional" work done on the engine twice, has had loads of parts thrown at her but was parked up a month or so ago with a persistent running issue. I have ideas about the cause but I'd like a workshop manual to refer to as I'm working. Either my websearch-fu is lacking or it really is difficult to find such documents, at least for this particular model. I have come across a good .pdf detailing how to check and set valve clearances so will be chasing down the source of that for other documents but if any JDM van/bus fans are on here with helpful resources I'd appreciate the pointers. The motor has been used in a lot of commercial/4x4 applications so I will probably do okay there, but the Touring Hiace/Regius (appears to be the same) specific stuff maybe not...
Thanks for looking!