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Sorry for the hijack Brazzy mate!
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Paint was very faded like you would expect from a car that mostly never sat under a shade over its life. When I got my 105 it was on the same situation and several friends vouched for a guy that did this for a living, on site. The guy´s work was top notch, very well worth the money, so this time it would not be different, called him to give the GU the head-turning look that it deserved.
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It amazed me how beautiful the tail lights are up close
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And the foggy/cloudy/opaque headlights transformation was the best part
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He is also going to give the first polish to the GQ when I´m ready for that.
Opened the stainless steel cover for the spare tire to find a 15 years old, brand new, never used original 235/80r16 tire. I am still divided about the SS tire cover, but true be told, it kept the tire "fresh". Its rubber is soft and grippy just like a new one.
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I don´t know about you, but this definitely reminds me of cotton candy :animierte-sm
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This is the part number
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The tires that came on the car were 235/70r16 and were considerably smaller then the original sized spare.
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Front tires were also damaged, so I opted to buy new OEM sized tires. I ended up finding 235/85r16 tires for reasonable price so that was what I picked.
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All the wheels had some surface rust with this one being the worse
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Powder coated them all and then painted the inside with gloss black (paint I had left from the GQ axles/chassis coating) and the outside dark gray (paint I had left over from the GQ bumper coating)
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And off to the tire-shop we go!
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It is not a big tire at all, but the diameter kind of fits well in the wheel well.
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And even the mudflaps seem to have been made to cover only the bike tires.
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Full car picture will come once I have the time to take it out in the sun. I could not take a full car picture that I liked inside the garage.
Its a Nissan Safari after all...
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When I took the GU to the tire shop for mounting, balancing and alignment, the later was not possible to be done due to both front wheels having play on the bearings. So I searched through the forum for instructions and found this great and well illustrated topic by MudRunnerTD:
DIY Wheel Bearing Adjustment
Basically lifting the front wheels up and undoing the (locked) free-wheel hub.
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By the non marked face of the phillips locking screws on the locking washer, this was the very first time this was taken apart.
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Used the locking washer to template for a tool creation at a later time.
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Tension/load nut fastened just one click with a punch (for the lack of the proper tool) and it was done. Just put everything back and its done. Very easy once confident from reading the DIY instructions from the forum.
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Bluetooth solution for the audio...
It has one quick charge port, one USB port for playing MP3s straight from a thumb drive, sends both the BT and MP3 audio over FM to the headunit. It does the voltmeter job as well.
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A few weeks ago I found a used TB45, with around 120k km on it, from a guy that took it off his 2000 GU3 to convert it to diesel. The engine was 600km away from me.
The engine was at his mechanic shop and he could help me load the engine, but I had no way to unload it back home. Started looking at local classifieds for a used/cheap engine hoist but no luck here. Looked at the classifieds from where the engine was, and found a store selling a "minor defects" brand new 2T unit for cheaper then the used ones I was finding here. Tell me about luck...
Neither the wife nor the kids were up for the adventure, so off I went with just my rock playlist as company. 8h drive up to dark then a overnight stop for food and some sleep to be able to arrive at destination on the opening business hours. And there it was. Engine complete with all peripherals, power steering pump, A/C compressor, alternator, starter. The only two items missing were the clutch that he needed to mate with the new engine and the temp sensor in order to have the dash thermometer working properly.
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It took us almost 2h to hoist it out of the back of the shop and into the car. It was a lot of fun nevertheless.
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The guy gave me also his spare tire cover and all the parts for the intake. My new engine hoist fitted there as well!
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A quick lunch, a water bottle for the trip and 8 hours of rock-n-roll later I was back home.
So happy with the engine hoist! The "minor defects" they mentioned on the add resumed to a few scratches on the paint due to it being on display, and not having its box anymore. The thing is absolutely new.
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Now to the bonuses I got. PS pump, alternator and AC compressor I have already mentioned. But it came also with:
Starter:
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Intake tubing (from which the real bonus is the MAF sensor):
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ECU and complete harness:
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This was a nice weekend.
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