Yet another gq owner

[Trav_Patrol]

Hey, my name is Travis (obviously:)) and i found this place searching for a workshop manual, lost the one i've been using for years when missus formatted my computer, always something you miss that ends up getting deleted!
am a member on various forums already in including perth4x4 patrolwa and the other national patrol forums and antilag.com which is more for performance cars and motorsport
i've got an 89 carby maverick that drinks like a sailor but has never let me down in the 30,000km i've had her
pretty standard atm with some cheap 31s and since buying it' i've installed a uhf, spotties, new stereo, 12v plug for my engel and a drivers seat from a hr31 Passage GT skyline which has been a godsend
live in Wickham in the Pilbara and work at cape lambert as a train examiner for rio tinto
i'm also too lazy to use grammar on forums but detest 'sms talk' lik dis etc...
future plans are a lift and 35s and i've got a front lokka sitting in the back waiting for installation,
waiting for my petronix ignition to arrive to fix a bit of spark breakdown i've been having and then fit an exhaust

Well done and thanks if you read down this far!
i'll let some pics do the talking

cheers
Trav

[AB]

Cheers Trav and welcome to the forum mate.

We have a lot WA members and some around your area too.

Feel free to ask anything, post some pics up and join in the conversations.

[Maxhead]

Welcome Trev.. bring on the pics.
Hope you get your truck the way you want it mate

Cheers
Kris

[Trav_Patrol]

and pics as promised
always given the old girl a real good washdown after beach and mud work (or any offroading for that matter)
needs a new drivers floor which i'll replace as soon as i buy myself a mig and learn to weld with it haha, she'll hold together until then

this pic i'm getting ready to snatch out my brothers old mq at a nice muddy days at the powerlines
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/DSC01020.jpg
the trapped beast
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/DSC01021.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/DSC01024.jpg
and coming around the point at wedge for some drinking and beach cricket!
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/DSC00876.jpg
hopefully get some pics exploring what the pilbara has to offer, havn't been here long but plan on getting out as often as possible
gregory's gorge is first on the list

[Trav_Patrol]

i've also fitted front recovery points and have a rear point to install but havn't been able to get my tow hitch out, i think i'm gonna have to get access to an oxy, probably been in there for 20 years and not keen to budge!

[Maxhead]

Love the pics.
Good to see you're not afraid to get amongst it and get the old girl dirty:049:

[DX grunt]

G'day Trav.

Welcome from a fellow Sandgroper. I'm from Gnowangerup, down near Katanning. Nice rig.

Take care out there.

Ross
DX grunt

[Trav_Patrol]

got stuck in some water here, had to rip out all my carpets and wash the car out, made the huge mistake of buying 'moulded' carpet from ebay, biggest waste of money ever, just buy marine carpet and cut it yourself in the future, the ebay carpet had nothing cutout to suit the car (around gearstick) and no holes for the many things bolted to the floor, once i've fixed the rust in the floor i'm gonna coat it with herculiner and do away with carpet for good
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/Yeah009.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/Yeah010.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/Yeah011.jpg

this one is a lesson for any wrangler owners (my lil brother included) buy a snorkal asap!
neither of our cars on the trip have snorkals but the air intake on the patrols is in a pretty good spot inside the guard, the jeep followed us through some puddles (not the one i got stuck in) and drowned his motor, kept trying to start it, pulled the plugs to try blow the water out but she was locked up tight, towed him to the main road and hopefully insurance gave him a new motor!
air intake on the jeeps has a little trumpet about halfway down behind the radiator, terrible place for a 4x4, especially one as capable as the wranglers are
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/Yeah0051.jpg

and a couple pics of new spotties,headlights and uhf, will upgrade spotties to hid eventually
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/DSC01080.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/DSC01083.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4/Passage_GT/DSC01082.jpg

[Woof]

Welcome Trav, nice GQ there mate, that wouldn't be the Powerlines where you got stuck by any chance.

[Trav_Patrol]

one on the side was there when i got the car, big one in the middle was a tree, when down a hole into some slop, expecting very limited traction i gave it a bootful, i had heaps of traction and shot straight ahead and knocked over a small tree, running over a large log on the way...
very funny in hindsight, mud looked so much deeper and i was first through
thinking of cutting off the bottom bits of the bullbar soon and improving approach angle, will do the trick until i get a steelbar and winch combo anyway:)

[Trav_Patrol]

yeah dogman it was the powerlines, many good times to be had out there!
once the wet season hits the pilbara i'll find some more mud i'm sure haha
hopefully i can find a way of protecting my aircon compressor this time

[Woof]

Not sure if you have seen this post on Perth4x4, but go here to see how to go through there next time, no way that I would do what this bloke did.
http://www.perth4x4.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36874&page=4

[Trav_Patrol]

yeah i saw that thread, some good pics on there, the big jeep flexes nice!
it may have been the same puddle but my pics were from last winter, could go through fine the other direction cause there was a small shelf or hole you dropped down, going the way i did there is a step up and that's where i got stuck

[Finly Owner]

Hi and welcome to nissans nut house Trav. Is ya briother gonna join the forum with his mq/MK? then there will b 2 of us.

[patch697]

G/day Trav & welcome on board.

Top pics, nothing like see a mighty GQ used the way it was intended.... Top effort mate.

Cheers
Paul

[Trav_Patrol]

Hi and welcome to nissans nut house Trav. Is ya briother gonna join the forum with his mq/MK? then there will b 2 of us.

unfortunately my brother doesn't know how to work computers haha, my younger brother has a shorty mq and a tj wrangler too and the old man has a s3 gu hand grenade (which hasn't popped yet) which is a nice tourer (33s roofracks, airbags, winch etc etc)
the shorty mq will be for sale shortly so i'll probably chuck up a thread on his behalf soon, clean car and will be cheap

cheers patch, hopefully get some more pics of the pilbara soon but hard to take pics when wheeling haha

[Russell1974]

Hey mate some good pics there welcome hope you enjoy your stay

[sgrec7]

My dad just bought a 97 GQ second hand (obviously) and it has no manual... any ideas?

[sgrec7]

free ideas*

[YNOT]

Do you mean it has no owners manual?

Tony

[patch697]

My dad just bought a 97 GQ second hand (obviously) and it has no manual... any ideas?

This is the factory GQ workshop manual & its a free download from this forum. (with our complements)

It is not the owners hand book but will answer most questions.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/showthread.php?292-Nissan-Patrol-Full-Factory-Original-GQ-Service-Manual.