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Early 90s Navara - Petrol or Diesel / Auto or Manual?

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Early 90s Navara - Petrol or Diesel / Auto or Manual?

Post by Fkahb »

I am looking at getting a Dual Cab ute and have narrowed it down to a Navara - however the options I have seen both diesel and petrol, and auto and manuals. I have my eye on a 94 2.7 lt Diesel in the $10 to $15K range.

Any tips or advise on buying an early 90's Navara (93 - 96) and what to look for would be a great help to a 4X4 newbie. :)
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Post by Fkahb »

OK - I am now the proud owner of a 96 Dual Cab DX Navara, 2.7l Diesel. Thanks for the heads up Toonfish.

Any other Navara owners got any tips for upgrades, maintenance, pics etc?

Eventually I'd like to install a turbo for the diesel, lift kit, side steps, flared guards etc- but one step at a time.
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Post by toonfish »

whers the pix ya PLAYA! :D
1995 lwb gq patrol 2.8 litre turbo diesel.
fairly standard for now cept a mostly rebuilt motor and front diff!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
100s gxl cruiser triple locked and plenty of afetrmarket touring crap!
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Post by Leprecaun »

Fkahb wrote:OK - I am now the proud owner of a 96 Dual Cab DX Navara, 2.7l Diesel. Thanks for the heads up Toonfish.

Any other Navara owners got any tips for upgrades, maintenance, pics etc?

Eventually I'd like to install a turbo for the diesel, lift kit, side steps, flared guards etc- but one step at a time.


The nissan Terranos use the smae rnning gear as the Navara, just the body is a pathfinder. What series is the engine, D21 or D22, if its either you can goto wreckers and grab a turbo of a nissan terrano and bolt it on. The engine works real well and is good with an auto.
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Post by Fkahb »

Thanks for the tips to date. I'll get a pic once I can grab a digi cam.
(OK Visited a buddy on the Gold Coast today and borrowed his digi - see pic below)

Its a D21, 150,000kms - so I can just get a Terrano desiel to bolt on eh? Any best guesses on power improvement by doing this?
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Post by stephen »

A friend has a 96 td27 bolted on the terano manifold and turbo, double the performance running 10psi... He is very satisfied. 5 gear is weak in the manual boxes. he did one after the Simpson and 1 after a day at stockton. I think 5th start to crunch to a point where it will no longer go into gear. but again teranno boxes are cheap from the importers.
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Post by toonfish »

sp the qd 32 in my 99 navara diesel cant use the td 27 turbo with a different manifold?

hmmmm :cool:
1995 lwb gq patrol 2.8 litre turbo diesel.
fairly standard for now cept a mostly rebuilt motor and front diff!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
100s gxl cruiser triple locked and plenty of afetrmarket touring crap!
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Post by Fkahb »

Pic now added.
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Post by Leprecaun »

Without the turbo it goes (slowly) still has power but with the turbo and running at 14psi it has constant power, you get used to the turbo whistle :D Acceleration is very quick. You need to set the pressure to work though in mid to high range rpm settings, which is ideal for crawling and takeoff, and eases the fuel consumption when normal driving as in mine the needle sits on 2300rpm @ 100kph.
Just went to NSW and over 500km I used ½ my tank of diesel running a 75LTR tank. The only extra thing I have done was to fit a boost controller to control the PSI levels.
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Post by toonfish »

need one i need one :D
1995 lwb gq patrol 2.8 litre turbo diesel.
fairly standard for now cept a mostly rebuilt motor and front diff!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
100s gxl cruiser triple locked and plenty of afetrmarket touring crap!
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