What did you do to your Patrol today!

[healy]

Grrrrrrrrr........ Spent all day stuffing around doing a job I had thought would take a couple of hours max. Fitting the factory wheel arch flares & the non factory mud flaps. If I had been willing to pay the crazy money Nissan wanted for their wide wheel pack mud flaps the job would have been all over & done in an hour, but instead I have had to fabricate brackets to mount the flaps. The factory flaps mount with three fasteners each, two of which are plastic 'scrivets'. Of course the bloody scrivets supplied with the flares are too short for the aftermarket flaps which are thicker. Twice I attempted to stick some plastic inside the flares with you beaut Loctite 406 & 771 primer. All looked good until I was screwing into it & it fell off inside the flare. I lost count of the number of times I had the flare on & off. Loctite and epoxy putty finally got things sorted. Hope so, 'cos once the flares are stuck on with the supplied double sided tape there will be no access to their inside.

My arc welding has improved & good enough for the brackets, (which will provide stronger mounting than the factory set up) but determining hole positions was a bit harder. Having to cut the metal strips out of old scrap laying around took a bit of time too.
The light beat me tonight so I have left the brackets, screw heads & washers painted & drying overnight. Hopefully I'll get it all together tomorrow morning & be able to get into town to have the new wheels & tyres fitted.

Cuppa

Did you get it sorted mate as I'm hoping they fit your width properly

[Sir Roofy]

george looks great with the black rims and good rubber. Will look awesome with a 3" lift too mate.

Ya gotta get rid of that bloody bar though mate! Not sure what nissan were thinking! It's horrid!

george is living a double life mate 4x4 driving during the day and doof doofing the main drag at night
gets home after a day out with us then polishes the bar and out at night

[Stropp]

Had the 145 ltr long ranger fitted today, who hoo she's almost setup for the Simpson trip

[oncedisturbed]

Good stuff Stropp

Had the tie rods replaced today, no more Clunking or shuddering in the steering

[Clunk]

Good stuff Stropp

Had the tie rods replaced today, no more Clunking or shuddering in the steering

Sounds like its time to give em a good testing....... I'd be quite happy to do for ya!!!! Lmao

Tapped on crappola MC

[oncedisturbed]

HAHAHA, think they will in a few weeks at MOA once I confirm dates

[Stropp]

Good one Jason, you will be right to give it a workout at dwelly.

[oncedisturbed]

Hoping I can get down there on the 27th-ish, might try and see if i can come down of the friday

[threedogs]

Re doing my reverse light options, now instead of the 27 watt flood on top of my Faux wheel.
I had another lid laser cut and recessed it to fit a small light bar. Trouble is all done now have
to wait till Tuesday to get it powder coated, didnt think it through, even forgot to pick up my
rear step as well. live and learn lol

[trekster]

Now that I have my car back I installed the fire extinguisher that I have had waiting..