Old Bloke with an old patrol new to the forum

[roland.sue.cox@gmail.com]

Just a quick hello to you all.
I have been reading the forums for quite a while as I find most things I need to know have already been canvessed to death and all the info is there, hence my introduction.
We have a 2005 4.2 patrol which we have had from new and the old girl has done just over 300K with very little problems.
About half has been off road, most of the deserts as well as any non existant track we could find.

As with many, we have had heating issues from 2 weeks old and never resolved. I have just had to replace the radiator because of a split and I have put a 3 core Copper/Brass unit in. However I found that the Airconditioning cooler has sustained some damage at some stage by a heavy handed mechanic somewhere, as all the fins were bent over in the centre. The main thing I did find was the core fins are starting to deteriate and fall apart when I tried to straighted the fins. That will be a job before we go anywhere. So it is no wonder I have a cooling issue now.

Last week I found the car would not start, to cut a long story short, I finally got going and got the car home. After a lot of research and checking, I found I had a NATS problem but just where was the issue.
This is an interesting one as I was all set to either pull the dash out and get at the NATS unit OR pull the fuel pump off and disable ther NATS solenoid. Neither are a job I releashed so I did some more searching and decided to check the key operation. At this stage I can manage to get the NATS to disable with some gentle manipulation of the key untill I can get down and get a new key.
Last job at this stage is to adjust ther RHS front wheel bearing although I have a list of "later" jobs as well.
Lastly let me congratulate you all of a good forum without all the jibber found on some.
Regards
Roland Cox

[threedogs]

Wow hello and welcome to the forum you'll find a great thread on the front wheel bearings
you may want to start a seperate thread with your issues, In the meantime ask anything you want
but most of all enjoy, Ill find the link for the wheel bearing for you

Here you go enjoy http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...ing-Adjustment

[Touses]

G'day bloke, welcome! Wonderfully infomative intro, many thanks for the positive feeback!
Not entirely sure about the lack of jibber but definitely some cluey people here!
Again, welcome, enjoy!

[threedogs]

Just thinking whats the condition of your plastic fan ,they can become brittle over time.
Also have you had the viscous hub serviced at all recently ?

[GQtdauto]

Welcome to the forum and great intro .

[Dhuck]

Welcome to the forum mate.

[MB]

Welcome aboard Roland!

[AB]

Hi Cox let me know if you want your username changed to a name not your email address mate.

Welcome to the forum too!


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[roland.sue.cox@gmail.com]

Thanks for the suggestion, maybe you could change it to "Roland" for me please.

[Hodge]

Last week I found the car would not start, to cut a long story short, I finally got going and got the car home. After a lot of research and checking, I found I had a NATS problem but just where was the issue.
This is an interesting one as I was all set to either pull the dash out and get at the NATS unit OR pull the fuel pump off and disable ther NATS solenoid. Neither are a job I releashed so I did some more searching and decided to check the key operation. At this stage I can manage to get the NATS to disable with some gentle manipulation of the key untill I can get down and get a new key.
Last job at this stage is to adjust ther RHS front wheel bearing although I have a list of "later" jobs as well.
Lastly let me congratulate you all of a good forum without all the jibber found on some.
Regards
Roland Cox

Welcome to the forum Roland. I've got the same rig mate. Mine's just clicked over 100k recently.
Have you considered a high flow water pump to help with the cooling.
Like you I am NOT looking forward to the NATS issue on the pump solenoid. I am actually half considering taking it to the mechanic and just get it by-passed before it leaves me stranded somewhere.

Adjusting the bearings takes all of 10 minutes on each side. Just watch out for those 2 smalls screws they are super soft and can be rounded off very easily.