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General advice: if the engine has a long air intake, as a lot of vans do, you need to fork out for an injected system. (Vapour injection is most commom, I have heard of liquid injection but not sure how available or relative cost). Reason: carburettored systems need to introduce the gas before the airflow meter, so it doesn't muck up the metering. this creates an air intake full of essenitally an explosive gas/air mixture, and the longer the air intake, the bigger the explosion if the car ever backfires. Destroys flap-type airflow meters and air filter boxes. The injected systems are much better if you can afford it. (ours was mostly Gov't subsidised). We do not notice any difference in power or economy compared to petrol with our '91 Tarago. In addition, I am told that Toyota do not design motors for gas, (no hardened valve seats) so you need to add a 'flashlube' system (or equivalent). Go for the electronic dosing version - the vaccuum bottle- drip systems are hopeless - I have had both. Drip systems are hard to calibrate and go out of calibration easily. The driving style affects dose rate also: I set mine up, crossed the Nullabor, and found the bottle almost full at the end; probably because the throttle was open most of the trip - very little manifold vaccuum available. The electronic dosers take a signal from any one of the gas injectors, so the dose rate is proportional to fuel usage.

HI newbie here I have a couple of Taragos, 86 & 91 (latter one has LPG injection). Towed a boat up north WA last year, couldnt pull faster than 90km/h on flat, woeful on hills. makes for a long trip. Was wondering how much better the 2.2TDI (eg, an Emina) goes for towing? Could I pull said boat at 100? I'm thinking that it has more torque at 2800 RPM than the petrol 2.4L. On that topic, there is a '94 Estima Emina for sale that looks in reasonable nick, but the owner admits it has a problem where it randomly stops, but then can be restarted OK. has not really attempted to solve, trying to quit it instead. Wont let me take my boat for a tow test, due to the random stopping problem - catch 22. so the question is, why would this 3C-TE diesel randomly stop, and then be able to be restarted? is this a typical Emina problem? Electrical? Fuel? Thanks