15,000KMs on rebuilt motor full NADS and still goes bang :(

[ozjeff]

When you say rebuilt motor from Nissan do you mean crate motor or did the dealership rebuild your motor?

Another possibility is that the injection pump might have gone. Happened to a friends Series III. Everyone thought it had pulled the pin, including the towie but it was the IP. It was blowing smoke and running on a couple of cylinders etc. Still cost him $6500 to get the bugger fixed.

Hodge, you know the year of the Patrol which lost it's oil pump?

Believe it was crate motor. It was the previous owner who had it done, but I have a yellow pages thick folder with all receipts/work performed from day 1. It definitely wasn't the same motor that was rebuilt.

Was replaced at 148,000KMs, now done 162,000KMs and all the fun paperwork as it was NSW and now in QLD and the replaced engine number caused a few registration issues.

With the ICV showing 3% I was thinking Injector Pump.

[ozjeff]

Whats the fan off on your Ecu-Talk I think mine has boost there???
Motor is off so disregard readings

It's a GUII so it doesn't show boost, instead it's the AC compressor being on/off. Really handy info that one LOL.

[mudski]

Lets see what the compression test results are. Got my fingers crossed for ya mate. No one ever likes reading these stories, especially after a new donk has been put in not that long ago...

[ozjeff]

Well surprise surprise - cylinder #3 no compression. Anyone got any tissues ?? - think I need to go and cry.


Soooo risk it with another ZD30 donk, or can you do TD42 with an Auto?? (only seen manual trans. conversions).

[the evil twin]

Well surprise surprise - cylinder #3 no compression. Anyone got any tissues ?? - think I need to go and cry.

That is a real bummer dude... esp after only doing 14,000 K's.

FWIW I would be a tad wary of another ZD30.
Mainly because even if it lasts 250,000 K's you are going to spend every one of them K's waiting for it to go bang.

[SG1]

What terrible luck, owning a ZD30 is doing my head in some days, love the patrol but the stress of not knowing when and where.. Really hope some good fortune comes your way soon.

[Hodge]

What a shame mate. I feel for ya. I die a little on the inside everytime I see a zd30 thread like this.

[Woof]

Feel for you mate

[mudski]

Jesus! I really need to get my rrsss into gear and start this TD build.

[Rock Trol]

Keep in mind that if you have a CRD Patrol it would not be legal to change it to a TD42. I guess no one would know unless you are changing states and they do an inspection.

Do you have any idea why it went? Faulty injector? Maybe oil pressure issues? It's just crazy to think that a near new motor just melts a piston like that when its not really under load. Especially if it has manual control of boost (no boost drops) and egr block so no soot clogging intake. There has to be something else to this story but not being the original owner it's going to be hard to figure it out.