Originally Posted by
red92gq
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 parts ,
We had to remove all the dash an swap the wiring looms mount the pedal box for clutch an change brake pedal.
Used engine crane to lower old auto an then lift manual box back in by dropping chain through floor where the shifters normally sit (if you wrap 1 chain around box in front of cross member an one directly behind crossmember the box will lift dead level).
We ran all the deisel loom an fuel lines etc while there was no motor or box in car so we could get to everthing easy.
When you change over looms the fuse box has to be pushed through fire wall from the outside an then all the interior wiring fed through after it. It also helps to trim off all the excess dags an corners on the fuse box as its a real neat fit through the firewall.
Once we had motor box an wiring etc all fitted up we drained an flushed tank flushed lines an then primed her to the filter ,changed the filter ,primed up again up an kicked it in the guts .
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