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I was just wondering what the pro's and cons were for both 4.5 ltr petrol motor versus the 4.2ltr diesel motor around 1999 to 2000 era. I am looking to purchase a patrol and have limited funds. I know by far the diesel is the better but just want to know the power difference between them also fuel economy etc. Any advice would be appreciated.

TB45 has power, TD42 has none.
TD42 can get 12-14lt/100km, TB45 can get 15-30lt/100km
Manual gearboxs are the same. They used to do 5th gear. This is no longer an issue, it has either already been repaired or it will never fail.
TB45 are cheap, TD42 are expensive.

Really comes down to what you want to use it for. If you want to be able to travel for 800km between servos. You need a TD42. If you dont need to go mre than 500km, and want to run on cheap gas. Then a TB45 on Gas with a small petrol tank would be cheap to run.

edit to change the 8000 to 800.

turps wrote:TB45 has power, TD42 has none.
TD42 can get 10-13lt/100km, TB45 can get 24-30lt/100km <---- under similar conditions.
Manual gearboxs are the same. They used to do 5th gear. This is no longer an issue, it has either already been repaired or it will never fail.
TB45 are cheap, TD42 are expensive.

Really comes down to what you want to use it for. If you want to be able to travel for 8000km between servos. You need a TD42. If you dont need to go mre than 500km, and want to run on cheap gas. Then a TB45 on Gas with a small petrol tank would be cheap to run.

I just edited a couple of details above.

Add to that the TD42 can go from around 50kw at the wheels to 75kw with a good intercooler ($3K). Another 25-30kw with a good turbo.

The TB45 will always make around 80-90kw atw, unless you throw about 6 months salary at it.

Its easy to figure out really for fuel economy.

Diesels tuned at around 22:1 fuel ratio under load
Petrols tuned around 12.7:1 Fuel ratio under load

At cruise & light load conditions
Diesel 28-32:1
Petrols 13.5-14.7:1