Me, myself and my Y61

[kibitz]

Hello guys,

My name is Sorin and I am from Romania. I own a 1998 Nissan Patrol Y61 RD28TD that, for the moment, is not too much modified.

I will try to create a separate topic where I will present a little bit the history of my car.

Best regards,
Sorin

P.S. Don't get fooled by my nickname - I am not a kibitzer... most of the time what I say makes sense :wink:

[kevin07]

gday sorin and welcome to the forum

[kibitz]

As promissed I will try to present my car's history a bit.

The small improvements I did to my car were to put a set of 33 inch mud/terrain tires (COOPER STT), a President JFK II CB radio and a SIRIO 5000 CB antenna.

The colleauges from Holland will notice that the car is bought from there, by looking at the plates :wink:. It is a two seater, because it was converted to a utility van before I bought it (I want it this way because the taxes are smaller in Romania).

This is how the car looked liked when I bought it (about two years ago):
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The new tires:
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I worked a little bit to make room for the CB as it was a little bit longer than expected:
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New IronMan steering dumper:
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More to come...

[kibitz]

gday sorin and welcome to the forum

Thank you kevin07! Glad to be here. I was reading the forum for some time now but I didn't had an accout. Today I decided to join and I'm glad I did.
I also use a Romanian forum that is a little more general (4x4 and offroad), but this one, as I see, is dedicated to Nissan Patrol which is the car I own.
:thumbup:

[kibitz]

Next thing I did was to take down the roof as I intended to buy a new suspension lift kit and the car wouldn't fit anymore in my garrage.
The roof for the utility vans is modified (I believe because they must have a certain load capacity). The modification consists of installing a fiberglass roof on top of the existing one, which is cut to make more room.

I started by dissasembilng the side panels for rear windows:
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I dissasembled then the roof light support, the temperature and heading indicator from the front of the roof, the rearwivew mirror and other small things that were attached to the roof. I coud then take down the roof lining/cover (hope this makes sense - my english is not so good especially with technical terms).

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Thext on the list was the roof window (it is a bit heavy 10-12 Kilos):
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Next part was a little bit hard to persuade to come off as it was glued vey well to/through the original roof (fitted throgugh the hole):
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Here it is how it looked like after taking it down:
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Next sep was to take down the external fiberglass roof; it was relatively easy to cut. Unfortunatelly I have no pictures with that operation.
I bought a piece of the metal rooftop from some guy who disassembles old/crashed cars and weld it over the hole in the original roof.

To be continued...

[HV2002]

Hi mate nice unit great pics

[MEGOMONSTER]

Welcome mate, surely the best forum on the net. If you need it, you can get it, if you want to know it, just ask it.
If you want to find it, go to the search bar for a universe of information.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of the greatest show on earth.

[kibitz]

Thank you for the warm wellcome!
I would like to read the forum a little bit more before asking questions. Maybe I'll find some answers myself and not ask waht was already asked and answered.

Sorin

[NissanGQ4.2]

Welcome 2 the forum Sorin,

Great bunch of members on here always willing 2 help out when they can

Enjoy the forum and what it has to offer

Cheers

Todd

[NissanGQ4.2]

Sorin, I have copied your photo's across to a new members ride thread I created for you: http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/showthread.php?25959-kibitz-My-car-s-history

Can you add future photo posts of you car to that thread please, I will leave these ones here

Sorry can't work out how to get rid of the attachment pics at the bottom off post without destroying it in the new thread

Cheers

Todd

[Patrol-Guy]

Hi Sorin, welcome to the forum.

[kibitz]

Hello,

Thank you for the welcome!
@NissanGQ4.2 (Todd) - thank you for creating the new thread for me! I'll continue there the story.

Sorin

[Dhuck]

Welcome to the forum mate.

[my third 256]

Hi Sorin, welcome to the forum

[threedogs]

Hello Sorin and welcome to the Forum,
jump in anytime and enjoy

[kibitz]

Thank you too guys!

Sorin

[growler2058]

Gday Sorin welcome aboard mate

[Family4x4]

Welcome, the car looks great!

[kibitz]

Gday Sorin welcome aboard mate


Welcome, the car looks great!

Thank you!

[Gecko17]

Welcome to the forum Sorin. Great looking patrol you have there. Great photos too. I haven't seen too many shorty GU's around.

[PMC]

Hello guys,

My name is Sorin and I am from Romania. I own a 1998 Nissan Patrol Y61 RD28TD that, for the moment, is not too much modified.

I will try to create a separate topic where I will present a little bit the history of my car.

Best regards,
Sorin

P.S. Don't get fooled by my nickname - I am not a kibitzer... most of the time what I say makes sense :wink:

G’day Sorin,

Welcome aboard mate! I hope you enjoy your stay with this great forum and its members!

PS, Shite-loads of info and good laughs to be had all-round!

Regards,

RLI

[Stropp]

Welcome along mate nice work with the vehicle.

[opinion]

Nice to find you here Sorin :Yahoo!:

[kibitz]

Nice to find you here Sorin :Yahoo!:

Hi there Opinion,
Nice to find you too!
I (also) saw your nice photo for the contest!

The world is small after-all.
:thumbup:

[Timmo]

welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy.

[kibitz]

Welcome along mate nice work with the vehicle.


welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy.

Thanks guys!
Nice to be here.