On Monday my '03 Dmax started thumping air back thru the air breather. Likely valve related from what I read.
Other issues:
Its been sipping antifreeze, maybe ad some every 4 months. Recently got way worse, I added some 3 weeks ago and it was low again last weekend.
It needs injector work.
It has a fair amount of blow by. Not blow the cap off the filler but just a haze coming out of the vent pipe.
Oil pressure is kind of low at idle.
After a week on contemplating what to do IE: lean over the fender and pull the heads and put ARP studs in and new injectors only to find more damage to either a piston or cam lobe we decided to pull it and overhaul it.
Today was Sunday Funday removing the core support in prep to pull the engine:
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