Outer Limits 4x4 Board

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?

The bolt in the last pic should be where your steering dampener should be!

Regards,
g@z.

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...

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

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...

dunno if it effects handeling, but will effect hitting rocks when off roading, and the steering wheel getting ripped out of your hands.

Your wheels rub on those plates? i find that rather strange, as iam running 32 inch simexs (more like 33 inch real) and they dont rub at all.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 )

under that cover is part of your wiring loom....

dromana7411 wrote:under that cover is part of your wiring loom....

there you go a riveting and fullfilling answer you can sleep sound tonight

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... :(

or you could just dream about black box.

hehe this is tru

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

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

camp oven?

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?

anyone know what size intercooler core best suits the sd33t engine

is it ok just to use your precleaner as the only filter

yeah it should be fine to run just the pre cleaner, lots of people only run it and makes it easier to seal it up good when you run a snorkel.

The pre filter is just a normal air filter just make sure you keep it clean, But that goes with out saying

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??

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

as i said, to the injection pump control mech...

turning the key pushes diesel to the engine already, so y have a button that pumps it aswel?


when driving and pushing the button its like the engine is killed for about a tenth of a sec b4 continuing on its merry way...

lada;s have the same thing on the fuel pump it primes the fuel on freezing cold mornings or nights eg the snow