Old Bloke with an old patrol new to the forum
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
