The new V8 Landcruiser engines comparing the V6 Straight Diesel engines, got a big lack, which could cause your trips a big headache and that is the sensitivity of its engine to the bad quality diesels, it could cause the motor to a quick failure, warning alarms and then you will end up dragging the truck by a trailer from no where to somewhere to be able to fix and run the engine again, taking care of what you feed into this engines and how you do its maintenance, could be a life saving event for your journeys and that’s why most of users will install a secondary pre diesel filter and water separator to their engines, also as the new tech engines will feed the oil evaporations back to the engine for taking care of the environment more, comparing the older engines, this act could make lots of Oil dirt residues into your engine compartments and decrease the performance of this engine and that’s why a catch can filter comes to play for not letting the oil evaporations directly getting into the engine and its media filter suddenly on the way of these gases could help the health of your engine by the time.
Im personally not really fan of manipulating the vehicles from factory setups, specially for Toyotas with massive proven reliability around the planet suddenly people do not need to change their original setups despite the fact that changing it suddenly means you might introduced unreliability on your proven factory setups, but for this particular case as this truck in its future might experience some different quality fuels from all over the places, I finally decided that this pre filter add on on the fuel line could be another level of insurance for the motor, also the catch can on the way of the evaporated oils will not make any harm if the manufacturer of the filter is a quality brand like Ryco, for sure cheap and low quality build filters are a big no no for this modification but Ryco got a good reputation in this industry for years now and is supplying all sort of maintenance kits and filters for lots of the vehicles in the market and that’s why I decided to pay its extra quality cost and add them on my truck,
Plus they have a very good to go kit for LC70s with a computer designed bracket for the engine bay fitting to be able to fit their both Diesel filter and Catch can on one bracket and mounted on the OEM mounting nuts of the engine bay and I have to say its really seating perfectly in the engine bay, Also their provided hoses are shaped and molded for the available space neatly, so after all the install you will feel everything came from the factory, no any dogy stuff will feel extra when you open the hood.
This kit comes with a not reasonably bad instruction and everything is strait forward really, their instruction could be better but not a deal breaker.
I’m not detailing it here as there is plenty of the videos online and every buyer will get a colorful instruction manual with the kit too, so no any point repeating all here but here is quick overlook at the whole installation:
First you will fit the bracket on the OEM mounting points by three M6 bolts on the left hand side of the engine bay exactly where the steering wheel liquid filler is seating,
Then you will fit all the plugs and hoses by their provided instructed parts on the proper in and out holes on the water separator filter then you run them to the OEM factory diesel filter and before any starting of your engine remember to prime the diesel filter and new lines by pushing the top factory filter pressing priming piece to run the diesel into your new kit, till you fill all the line is filled with diesel again then start your engine.
For the Catch can, I realized one of the hoses is longer than it should be so by cutting small pieces of the hose you can lay down the hose very nicely on the engine available space as shown on my images and finally tie wrap all your new lines securely, the provide tie wraps in the kit for me was not really quality tie wraps, so I just used my own quality tie wraps.
Once I started to use the vehicle for long trips then I will be able to give you my proper feedback if I will face any issue with the setup or not, but lets cross fingers not at all, for now the added setups seems running nicely and is suggested to change the filters between each 30K to 40K usage (it depends to the quality of diesels and oils), another tip for running the engine healthy is even to Pre filter the diesels from the entry nozzles at the gas stations which I have to see what I will find in the market to even filter any diesel before getting into the main vehicle tanks, also is suggested to do not push hard on this engine if your engine is still in the cold run, because suddenly it will make more residue evaporations into the engine cavities when the oil is still not so warm in the cold areas and mornings, for sure quality of the oil will be another factor, so all is up to the user to know how to take care of the engine and keep it reliable as it should be, even after adding all these precautionary factors.
