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Red Rover started on his TD42 engine swap today.

Dropped around after voting and this is what I saw....



A Mav with Red rover power. Just remember the bald spot is a solar panel for a _______ machine. Shame the tarp is providing shade.






It's good to see there is a "Powerpak" left.....



Now the work is checked by the expert.......



It should be illegal to get that excited over a N/A TD42 block.....



Oops it won't fit without removing that engine mount (due to extractors remaining in engine bay.

Soon after I left them to it..... and I may let Red Rover put a different spin on it all.

Tell us if you had any problems with that 24v Jap import motor......

Hey mate,

Any lift on that patrol ?? Reason for asking - i have a fairly lifted patrol which im taking my 2.8 out pretty shortly and puttin a 4.2 in and would an engine crane do the job - im thinking it prolly wont - may have to use a H frame with a block and tackle.

TOM

Yeah it has some lift, about 3 or 4" coils + 285's.......

The enigine crane did the job only on the longest boom setting, supposedly only 1/2 ton rated out there though.

We were talking about giving it a 2 or 3" body lift where the vertical section bolts down & two longer straps at the back seeing as it has seen a number of patrol motors (Rough tally would be 4 TB42, at least 3 TD42, a 308 & more stuff before that too.....

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Bris_GU wrote:Red Rover started on his TD42 engine swap today.

Dropped around after voting and this is what I saw....

Oops it won't fit without removing that engine mount (due to extractors remaining in engine bay.

Soon after I left them to it..... and I may let Red Rover put a different spin on it all.

Tell us if you had any problems with that 24v Jap import motor......

And who would be the person that took a bunch of photo's and bolted after he had to get his hands dirty help guide the engine into the engine bay?

It all went pretty well for a drive in and out weekend petrol to diesel conversion.
I still can't work out why my engine bay has the same spare space with the engine in as his does with it out.

GQ wrote:Hey mate,

Any lift on that patrol ?? Reason for asking - i have a fairly lifted patrol which im taking my 2.8 out pretty shortly and puttin a 4.2 in and would an engine crane do the job - im thinking it prolly wont - may have to use a H frame with a block and tackle.

TOM

You could do what I did to do an engine swap under my house, when we were ready to lift it out we swapped the front tyres for a pair of rusty/bent 15 inch rims with no tyres on them, gained us 6 inches.

its alive ITTSSS AAALLLIIIVVEEEE. We think it had a bit of carbon under a valve cause it had a bit a a stutter & something shot out the exhaust after driving it for 10 mins It then picked up a bit of power as well. drove it to the bribie roundabout 100kph in 3 gear and it is good now. The fuel was wwaayyy to rich, leaned it back and is good. No smoke YAHOOOO! NOW wheres that safari turbo?

Still sitting under the bonnet of a white GQ that rarely goes out anymore.

As for getting my hands dirty, I didn't even do that, due to the nice clean petrol that was in it.

Now that sooty thing in there will mean I will get my hands dirty when you eventually get that V8 you have wanter for so long & all that pipe gets pulled out.

you clinton & me, if i can be done, we'll find a way!