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I really want to dress the Rodeo up like a Dmax, badging and all. Just hard to find badging out here.

Awesome, thanks.

Heyyas. I am regularly on these forums as I have a Patrol. But on the weekend I bought a Rodeo for my wife. It is a 2005 RA Rodeo dual cab TDI. Has an ARB canopy, ARB deluxe roof racks and tow bar. I want to put a bull bar on it, snorkel and get rid of the nasty Holden badging and fit a D-max grille...

I removed the front sway bar and the car drives no different on the road, but the rear links are very short.

I was thinking about using spacers to make the difference up.

I was just wondering if it had something to do with the panhards not being long enough.

Has anyone extended their factory sway bar disconnect?

Now dont laugh! I have pedders rear springs that lifted it around 2.5 inches with 30mm spacers in the rear. In the front I have heavy duty 80 series springs which lifted the car 3 inches on the front. Before I fitted these springs though, I was running some 1 year old GU springs and the car had a sl...

5inchgq wrote:I ve got dobinsons springs and a saggy passenger side ! just replace the springs with something decent.

The trouble is it has decent springs in it and I have swapped them left to right so I cant be a sagged spring.

Heyyas. My GQ has a problem! It has around 3 inches of spring lift front and rear and has a lean to the drivers side. The drivers side sits about an inch lower. I have swapped springs left to right with no change, disconnected the front and rear sway bars with no change. I loosened off all suspensio...

Well, I decided to go 33 inch big horns and just run them as my everyday tires. I got 5 tyres and new 15x8 LC offset rims, look tough as, I now have to get my flares back on as they stick way out of the guards! They are really quiet which is a bit of a shock, and drive really good on the road, very ...

I read the new 4wd action mag and saw there is a big Mud tyre test. The Big Horns did really well but the tyre that stood out was the silverstones. So I rang our silverstone supplier at work for a price and they are out of stock for a couple of months!

The trepadores are also looking good. In 35" there is about $50 per tire seperating them all. The concern I have is, to fit 35's I will need to do more work to the car, a lot more work, 33's should fit fine as it is, but, 33's only give me an inch more ground clearance! Tough decisions. I saw t...

Its not so much the tread, but the diamater. the Diesel is slow enough as it is. It can only be worse turning 35's in the traffic. Which is why I am thinking about keeping the 31's as dailys and the larger tyres for the weekends.

Heyyas. The patrol needs some better tyres so I had a look at our tyre shop at work and noticed we are a Maxxis dealer. I have got some prices and am really impressed with the cost of them. I am looking to find out what peoples experiences are with them. I am leaning more towards the Big Horns or th...

Heyyas.

I was wondering, does a gearbox from a TB/TD 42 fit behind an RB30? Are the bell housing patterns the same.

If so, is there an adaptor to fit a Nissan VH41/45 engine to the Patrol gearbox?

as with anything to do with cars........... anything is possible as long as you have enough money! would be cool for someone to have a 300+rwkw patrol but !!! nibbsy You could always just stick an RB26dett head, computer and everything else onto a RB30 bottom end, using the RB30 patrol mounts, bell...

I know there was a class action going to get money back out of nissan.

A guy at work was part of it but he got rid of his 3.0 GU and went a bought a 4.2 instead.

I will find out if it is still going ahead.

I think you mean R30 Skyline. In japan (and possibly NZ) they had a turbocharged, efi 'L' series engine. I think it was an L24et.

The R31 Skyline has the 'RB' series of engines, which are all cross flow.

Great, thanks for the info.

Heyyas. I have a mate looking at buying a 2000 model Range Rover, They one he is looking at has the V8 in it. He wants me to check it out for him as im a mechanic but I have never had anything to do with rangies! It is a stock luxo barge and really clean, and he only wants it as a nice 'cruiser' you...

If your Patrol is still Carbie, then no, you cannot use a VL/R31 Dissy.

Sweet as, so the 4.5 will bolt up to the 4.0 engine mounts on the chassis or do we need to weld up new mounts?

Loom and ECU are nothing, that stuff is easily had from a wrecker, but the issue is the 4.5 is an Auto, the 4.0 is a manual and he wants to keep it manual, does the 4.0 manual fit the 4.5 or are the bolt patterns different?

Heyyas, I am not a Toyota person, but I have a good mate who is so I am helping him with some research. Firstly, he has an 80 Series, it has a 4.0 peddy engine (I think 3f?), the truck is in pretty good nick, but a bit slow, he is looking a a really cheap late model 80 with the 4.5 EFI engine which ...

I am currently gathering up all bits to convert my GQ to turbo. By T28 that is a massive generaisation. The standard patrol manifold uses a t3 exhaust flange. I am going to use a turbo from an R33 GTS-t Skyline which has a t3 flange. The turbo has a ceramic rear wheel, which means no more than 12 ps...

Naaa.....I have no idea what the TD 42 port size is. I am making my manifold off a TB42 head and just want to make sure the TD42 port size is the same before I weld it all up.

No-one?

With doing my turbo conversion, I am looking at putting a 't' piece in the oil feed line to the alternator driven vac pump and using that for oil feed, and just draining the oil back to the sump. And I was just going to block off the water feed to the turbo, I have been reading the info on a kit tha...

Heyyas. I am getting ready to weld up my custom turbo exhaust manifold and I have a concern. Yes, I know tb42 and td42 exhaust manifolds share the same flange shape size etc But, I am dummying my manifold off a spare tb42 head that a mate has lent me for the job, and the exhaust port sizes on that a...

Problem sorted, with the alternator removed I was able to see the mounts for the tensioner, all up and done.

Thanks man, its a help.