Gino's GU

Well, thought it was time to throw up some picks of the rig after it's rebirth from ARB.

It's a 2009 GU 4.8L and thirsty as hell :)

On collection
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After pickup
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Have installed a new stereo, spotties, awning, safety flag and UHF in between it's time at ARB
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Trial run in Collie Hills on the weekend with a few of the members from the 4WDA forum
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Nicely kitted out rig you have there mate..... looks good for a GU:p:p:smiley_thumbs_up:

Looks great mate keep ya broke with those bits!

looking sweet mate
nice colour lol

cheers guys, forgot to mention the gear not quite visible as I put in the 2" OME kit, 33's and a 145L long ranger tank as well.

It purred like a kitten through the Mt lennard track and some of the other hill climbs, got nicknamed the stealth patrol by the crew as they were used to their rumbling diesel tractors :)

Had to include the photo with the guard dog watching the troll lololol

Still got to get a rear worklight set up, more 12v plugs inside and some LED light strips for the awning as well

Hey mate looks good well tricked up

Looks great mate especially in the second last shot! Only thing it needs now is a nissanpatrol.com.au sticker ;-)


Tappin N Crappin

Yep, that looks pretty tough mate...how thirsty is thirsty. I was looking at getting a 4.8 but decided against it...LOL

still trying to figure exactly as the original tank was approx 500 kms from 90L give or take, it has the 145L in there now but I have to fill up a jerry as a back up when I work how low the empty mark is just in case. it has the the normal delay before the fuel gauge starts to register fuel use which is around 230 kms, at the halfway marker it has done approx 530kms so I am hoping around the 700kms range before having to top up. May have to look at a sub tank to retro fit as the lat of the petrol subs for this model came out in 2006 which will give me close to 200L on board not including jerry cans.

Picked up a bush ranger wheelie bin (ripstop / pvc) for the spare yesterday. nice sturdy bag so I'm happy with that. got it when i took the Patrol back to ARB in Welshpool for the 500km suspension follow up to ensure ride heights and that they bedded properly. All I can say is the staff down there are excellent, big thunbs up to them. If any of the WA crew want the details of the staff I dealt with, pm me.

Going to start looking for some baintech plugs for the inside of the rig now.

Where do I grab a sticker from?

Good looking truck mate.

Is the next mod a turbo?? more power plus with mild boost could give you better economy. 4.8's are great they haul ass just thirsty as you say.

not yet, got to put more 12v sockets in the rig for fridge, lights etc, window tint. later on a better exhaust and a turbo is a possibility once I find the elusive money tree

Yes i think we are all in search of that one and think it would be kept discrete if anyone found it.

looks good mate. what (33s) tyres did you go for? Is that the ARB alloy rack? also what's that switch under the demister button on the dash? not seen one of those before.

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Originally Posted by clunk71

looks good for a GU:p:p:smiley_thumbs_up:

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What you talk'n about Clunk??? lol

Of course it's the goods. It's a GU and it's from WA. What more could a man want.....apart from a GU ute from WA? hahaha

Nice truck bro. Us GU owners have to stick together. lolol.

Nice to see another WA 4.8. It was only the other day I saw this Patrol in a couple of YouTube clips.

Looks good mate.

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Originally Posted by Bloggsy

Nice to see another WA 4.8. It was only the other day I saw this Patrol in a couple of YouTube clips.

Looks good mate.

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?? what you tube clips? only had the rig 6 weeks and it was owned by WAPOL prior to me as a traffic escort vehicle from what I understand

Nice looking GU indeed. What breed of draws are they?

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Originally Posted by oncedisturbed

?? what you tube clips? only had the rig 6 weeks and it was owned by WAPOL prior to me as a traffic escort vehicle from what I understand

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Sorry mate it was actually a bunch of pics on a 4wd Action forum trip report. My mistake, although with all those pics you could make a movie outta them haha!!

yup, that was me on the 4wda thread that you read up on, that was last weekend in the Collie hills with Miss76er, HDJ, Finchy260 and Smokescreen

That'd be the one.

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Originally Posted by Haydog Havoc

Nice looking GU indeed. What breed of draws are they?

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HH, they are the outback series, work a dream

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That'd be the one.

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it was a good weekend, annoyed them which was funny as they couldn't hear it coming so they dubbed it the "Stealth Patrol", went well through the hills etc

Picked some 800 lumen LED light strip last week prior to going away camping and installed it in the awning. Holy mother of the bundy bear, bright as and fantastic to cook and chin wag under. Gonna set some more up for different uses.

Also managed to use the barby ute, twin butane bbq, can't fault it except like all butane burners when its cold, the pipes "freeze" up restricting the flow of gas.

are those LED strips removable?? or are they are permanent fix? look good tho...

great truck, awesome name..lol

The strip is mounted with 3m double sided tape, just need to yank it off and put new stuff on if needs be.

Just installed some 12v sockets in the rear yesterday and rewired the spotlight switch to a narva rocker switch into a spare dash slot rather than being taped on with the crappy stuff the original switch came with.

When time permits i will be setting up some moveable LED camp lightstrips on some cheap bunnings tripods to be used arounds tents etc which will be a bonus.

Also picked up a 50L ironman fridge and mounted some brackets in the back for the straps to tie onto, basically rhe fridge will remain inthe back of the track.

Window tint is 1 of the next additions to the truck as well as a twin rear worklight mount and a lightbar.

Nice setup mate. You have a few really good ideas there. Thanks.

Great truck buddy, love the draws in the back they fit really well. What did they set you back if you don't mind me asking?

Cheers
Rusty

They are the outback series from ARB but from memory I think they were around $1600 due to the side wing kits installed as well. The teoll us salary packaged through work so I didn't overly mind the price too much, if I bought it personally I more rhan likely wouldve gone with Ironman ones instead.

Yep a bit pricy but they look very good quality. Nice one :)

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Just installed an interchangeable ipad / iphone bracket in the troll. Made by arkon and heaps cheaper than ram mount but almost identical.

Was checking out some batteries online to reset the 2 I have in the Troll. Looking at getting 2 x supercharge allrounder batteries (both hybrids and maintenance free). 1 is the mrv70 (normal n70 size) 760cca with 105ah and the other is the smaller mrv50 650cca with 80ah, total of 185ah between them and the manual isolator will allow me to cycle between the 2 batteries which will also help to maintain them as well. Hardest trouble has been to find a suitable replacement for the baby battery due to it's size.

Love what you've done with the truck.
Well set up

Really nice looking bus mate, i like wat you've done with it and im hearing ya about the thirsty part!

So what's next?

Not much has been done lately except putting quite a few scratches on it up in Wilbinga last sunday, stumbled across literally a goat track that hasn't been used for at least a year with nowhere to turn around....oops

Stickers from Taslucas came through at the start of the week and put them on today.

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The new ram mounts for the phone and ipad came in today and just finished fitting them to the dash, noice and sturdy now.

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Great looking Truck mate. It seems we have the same idea with LED's under the awning. All you need is Lockers and thenshea go everywhere truck. Love it

Cheers Thirsty, lokkas down track is a pssibility, got tinting next on the list and hopefully change the exaust and put extractors on and maybe a turbo but not sure on the coin at this stage :(