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  1. Yeah our 07 did the same thing at about 135000ks just started all of a sudden. good news is its not too bad a deal. Perhaps :) It sounds like a gudgeon pin letting go? Listen carefully with a steel rod or something to the motor and you will hear that there is only one "knock" not two like a gudgeon pin will make - caveat here - I'm not as mechanic but I have been around motors all my life, so get expert opinions! All the info I could read about it pointed to the injectors stuffing up, not a good sign as its expensive if Toyota do it and for some reason they wont put "alternative good" ones in, they replace with the same type which means that after a while they will also do it. Alternatives are to replace them yourself if mechanically minded or pay someone to do it for you. If you get the better ones from somewhere, they were available on eBay at one point, you can get them for a lot less than Toyota will sell them to you. But Toyota will only sell you the ones for your model, yep the BAD ones again. After a lot of soul searching I decided to experiment with ours, hoping like hell I didn't live to regret it :) So I worked the guts out of the ole Ute. I mean I really loaded her up and drove for hours in 3rd and 4th to really give her a work out, this will get the injectors really hot and cleans them up nicely. Plus I used some injector cleaner for good measure. Now by "really loaded" I mean about 20 x 9ft sleepers and a trailer with another 20 behind, they were about an hours drive at normal speed, 110 here in West Aus, and hilly, but we crawled back at about 80 max down hill letting the engine take the strain of slowing down, not using brakes much. After doing this twice, we had a lot of landscaping to do, the ole girl has not made even the slightest rattle and we did this almost two years ago. My thinking is that the previous owner was using that crappy bio-diesel and just pottering around slowly gumming up the works. Hope this helps. Cheers Wayne
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