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as im only new to the whole patrol thing, im hopeing i could have a few things cleared up for me. one i found after disconecting my swaybar and finding my tires scrub a flap of metal that sits sortof over the back of the indicators, like it was cut out of the body to make room for them but rather than take it off the designers just bent it back abit...
this badly drawn pic is what it looked like b4 i bent it out of the way... well sortof what it looked like....
this is an actual pic of it after i bent it. is it still there for a reason? or did they just get lazy and not cut it off (like i will when i can be bothered dragging out the 4-inch).
the other thing is i found this bolt on the front of the chassie, facing backwards, only on left-hand side... anyone know what its for?
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
if thats the case, using my incredible powers of decution and reasoning, that would mean i have no stearing dampener, altho would presume i once did?? hmmm interesting...
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
yeah mate, thats where your steering damper goes.. get one..
the other flap/bent metal looks like has been ripped by tire scrubbing, and id weld back up if i were you. Or, someones modded the indicators into the bull bar itself and bent the metal out of the way. either way, they beloy on the body, not the bar... well they used to anyways.
cheers
85 MK lwb 3.3td 2 inch body lift, 32inch simex Ironman 2 inch suspension lift. 4 tonne on the clock, original donk.
the idicators are where they are ment to be, and the only reason the flaps are where they are now is because i got the multigrips to them, b4 they where curved ever so nicely, done all proper like, and just waiting to get attacked by wheels with flex...
does not having a damper actualy do anything bad to the handling?? seeing as i havnt driven it with one, and without it seems fine to me...
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
cut that bit of steel off, but bend an edge all the way around it so the remaining bits are still solid. Or better yed bend and attach e a bit of angle to it. Its not a real important bit of steel anyway
as for your steering, without the damper, you will feel more shock and vibes through the steering wheel. it will wobble alot more when it goes over uneven ground, and will jerk the steering more violently when you hit roskc and ruts offroad.
jEs
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jessie928 wrote:cut that bit of steel off, but bend an edge all the way around it so the remaining bits are still solid. Or better yed bend and attach e a bit of angle to it. Its not a real important bit of steel anyway
jEs
Yeah its not real important...........
Its just there to stop rocks , sticks , or any other object that the front tyres can pickup and throw at the back of the plastic indicators thus shattering em into a few bits that can be superglued back together provided you know when the rock actually hit it and you stopped and picked up all the broken bits and in doing so saving yourself a few bucks from having to open an account with nissan for a regular supply of front left & right indicator assemblies
Nah ....... their not real important at all
Kingy
[color=blue][size=150][b]And your cry-baby, whinyassed opinion would be.....? [/b][/size][/color]
generally, you wont have much of an issue forward of the wheel.
unless you drive 100km/h in reverse
if indeed that is a problem, its much easyer to bend up a small bit of sheet behind the indicator, like the tin plate that protect the 40 series rear lights.
JEs
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well as i drive thumbs-out, and only occasionaly loose the steering wheel, i think ill save my $$ and live without a dampener.
as for the metal, its going.
vanne, im running 33's atm with sway bars disconected, if i re-connected them id have no probs, but i like that bit of extra flex i never knew the plates existed untill 2 days after disconecting them.
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
right tiome to hassle all again, pulled out most of my interior on the weekend and pulled out the carpet coz it looked shite, and after getting about 1/4 tonne worth of dirt out from under the vinel, i found this black 'box' think under the vinel under the drivers seat...
wtf is it for???
umm yeah atm thats about all im curious about... BUT STAY TUNED! im sure to find somethin else on this bus i have no idea about, and it wont take long
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
looks like its only held on by a couple of screws. just take it off and have a look see.... if you were asking me i would say its perhaps a protective cover for a connector of somesort (but then i have no real idea!)
i did think about pulling it off, but was running outa daylight and needed to get to work then next day (havin the seat in helps for this ) so i just took a pic instead (yea i know, lazy basturd... but thats y i dont walk the fire trails )
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
ho hum, i was hoping it would be slightly more exciting than that... i ges ill just have to go back to dreaming about those sexy women instead of the wonderfull possiblities that hide under that little black box... :(
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
yer there is just a hole/grommet in the floor the wiring goes through. some goes right to the gearbox and transfer case for the reverse/4wd switches and the rest goes left to the back for the lights im pretty sure.
this is no longer just a couple of 'quick' questions i have decided
right this thing came with my bus, it was just sitting under the passenger seat, i assumed it was a spare air filter at a glance, but i have recently had a look at it and have changed my mind, tho im not sue just what it is tho...
and this little bit is a piece of rubber that looks like it could work as a kinda one-way valve or something ??
then there is this button just next to the steering collum, when i press it the injection pump control mech moves, but it will neither start the engine, nore will it kill it (thort to start with it mite be a kill switch...)
can anyone shed some light please??:D
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
macca81 wrote:this is no longer just a couple of 'quick' questions i have decided
right this thing came with my bus, it was just sitting under the passenger seat, i assumed it was a spare air filter at a glance, but i have recently had a look at it and have changed my mind, tho im not sue just what it is tho...
and this little bit is a piece of rubber that looks like it could work as a kinda one-way valve or something ??
then there is this button just next to the steering collum, when i press it the injection pump control mech moves, but it will neither start the engine, nore will it kill it (thort to start with it mite be a kill switch...)
can anyone shed some light please??:D
the first pic i think is the bottom of the pre air filter it just clips and screws on
Good call on the pre filter, that is definatly the bottem half of a pre filter, dould be the top half, does it have a oval sort of shape cut out on one side?
just as i thought, was just curious.... i will only run the precleaner once i get an intercooler for the old girl, just not sure what size to run and how much to up the boost to compinsate for the lost pressure by running an intercooler
mattstar wrote:Good call on the pre filter, that is definatly the bottem half of a pre filter, dould be the top half, does it have a oval sort of shape cut out on one side?
nope, just nice and round all around it like in the pic...
ne ideas on the button??
[quote="Barnsey"]
Bronwyn Bishop does it for me.[/quote]
might be a button to pump diesel fuel in the enigne like on the nissan/datsun work trucks the old ones/ just trace what eva comes out the back of the button to where it leads
