22nd January 2013, 09:52 AM
G'day buddy, Welcome aboard.
Great bunch here with tons of advice, info, adventures and plenty of laughs to absorb.
Join in and soak it all up. You will meet some top people
Enjoy, cheers Pete
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22nd January 2013, 09:08 AM
Welcome to the forum mate
22nd January 2013, 08:46 AM
Welcome to the forum mate, feel free to ask any questions and join in the conversations.
22nd January 2013, 08:04 AM
Welcome mate. I was like you,loyalties layed with Toyota for long time. But recently made the switch. Good times ahead.
22nd January 2013, 07:15 AM
Hello and welcome to the forum, go figure the motor outlasted the motor, Gold
jump in anytime and enjoy
22nd January 2013, 04:33 AM
G'Day and welcome to the forum mate
22nd January 2013, 03:49 AM
G'day mate welcome aboard gotta friendly mob here fulla great info and advice
PS you'll get over the toymota fad now ;)
Rock out with ya..........tap out
22nd January 2013, 12:19 AM
Parts specialist can generally source one or remove it from the other motor and it could be a straight swap
Just tap it in just tappy tappy tappy
21st January 2013, 11:19 PM
g'day Russ, welcome aboard mate
21st January 2013, 11:06 PM
Hey mate - welcome to the forum. Great idea - and I believe Nissannewby is also a diesel fitter on here from North Brissie and has a couple of Patrols he's sorted. Enjoy the forum mate.
Jas
21st January 2013, 11:05 PM
Welcome mate. Well you have got a pretty good choice there.. go a fuel conserving td with mild performance or choose the petrol hungry, tyre stripping tb..
Throw up a build thread as we all like...
1st February 2012, 04:59 PM
The gearboxes are the same between 4.5 manual and 4.2 diesel, just a different bell housing.
Front diffs are the same but if you have a manual 4.5 then you will have a bigger rear diff, which is no...
5th October 2011, 11:30 PM
We did this conversion on a mates patrol last w/end.
Drove it into the shed friday arvo as a tb42 petrol/auto an drove it out sunday arvo as a deisel manual.
Used his old patrol for all the donor...
4th October 2011, 12:09 AM
Also the back of the grille has to be shaved down with a gringer to clear the intercooler, however I didn't get any photos. (Must of been getting exited again).
Once the intercooler was installed...
3rd October 2011, 11:03 PM
O.K. , many apologies agiain, but now the conversion is complete I figured I should finish the thread!
Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of the gas system removal (always the way when you get a...
