Me, myself and my Y61
Hello guys,
My name is Sorin and I am from Romania. I own a 1998 Nissan Patrol Y61 RD28TD that, for the moment, is not too much modified.
I will try to create a separate topic where I will present a little bit the history of my car.
Best regards,
Sorin
P.S. Don't get fooled by my nickname - I am not a kibitzer... most of the time what I say makes sense
Last edited by kibitz; 25th January 2014 at 09:23 PM.
PMC (9th February 2014)
gday sorin and welcome to the forum
07 crd,,bridgestone 697lt, 2.75 buedesert ex,SOLD theres a lot of my blood, sweat and money in that troll.
92 gq ti tb42efi my brothers gq extractors dual batteries brake controller uhf alloy bullbarSOLD with a heavy heart but gone to a nice young fella
13 y62 the beast that burbles
kibitz (25th January 2014)
As promissed I will try to present my car's history a bit.
The small improvements I did to my car were to put a set of 33 inch mud/terrain tires (COOPER STT), a President JFK II CB radio and a SIRIO 5000 CB antenna.
The colleauges from Holland will notice that the car is bought from there, by looking at the plates
This is how the car looked liked when I bought it (about two years ago):
new_2.jpgnew_1.jpgnew_3.jpg
The new tires:
tires_3.JPGtires_2.JPGtires_1.JPG
I worked a little bit to make room for the CB as it was a little bit longer than expected:
president_JFK_II_2.jpgpresident_JFK_II_1.jpg
New IronMan steering dumper:
ironman_steering_dumper.jpg
More to come...
Gecko17 (4th February 2014), MudRunnerTD (26th January 2014)
Thank you kevin07! Glad to be here. I was reading the forum for some time now but I didn't had an accout. Today I decided to join and I'm glad I did.Originally Posted by kevin07
I also use a Romanian forum that is a little more general (4x4 and offroad), but this one, as I see, is dedicated to Nissan Patrol which is the car I own.
Next thing I did was to take down the roof as I intended to buy a new suspension lift kit and the car wouldn't fit anymore in my garrage.
The roof for the utility vans is modified (I believe because they must have a certain load capacity). The modification consists of installing a fiberglass roof on top of the existing one, which is cut to make more room.
I started by dissasembilng the side panels for rear windows:
side_panels.jpg
I dissasembled then the roof light support, the temperature and heading indicator from the front of the roof, the rearwivew mirror and other small things that were attached to the roof. I coud then take down the roof lining/cover (hope this makes sense - my english is not so good especially with technical terms).
roof_1.jpgroof_2.jpgroof_3.jpg
Thext on the list was the roof window (it is a bit heavy 10-12 Kilos):
roof_window.jpg
Next part was a little bit hard to persuade to come off as it was glued vey well to/through the original roof (fitted throgugh the hole):
roof_4.jpgroof_6.jpgroof_5.jpg
Here it is how it looked like after taking it down:
roof_7.jpgroof_8.jpgroof_9.jpgrear_windows_1.jpg
Next sep was to take down the external fiberglass roof; it was relatively easy to cut. Unfortunatelly I have no pictures with that operation.
I bought a piece of the metal rooftop from some guy who disassembles old/crashed cars and weld it over the hole in the original roof.
To be continued...
Hi mate nice unit great pics
Welcome mate, surely the best forum on the net. If you need it, you can get it, if you want to know it, just ask it.
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Enjoy the sights and sounds of the greatest show on earth.
2011 GU8 ST 3.0 CRD, ARB Bullbar with IPF spotties, scrub bars and side steps, Snorkel, Dual Battery system, Waeco fridge, Turbo Timer, ARB Roof Rack with 5 IPF spotties across the front, Custom full Leather Bucket seats, DPchip, 3" Taipan exhaust, ARE Intercooler & scoop, Autron EGT/Boost and dual volt gauges, ARB front locker.
Thank you for the warm wellcome!
I would like to read the forum a little bit more before asking questions. Maybe I'll find some answers myself and not ask waht was already asked and answered.
Sorin
Welcome 2 the forum Sorin,
Great bunch of members on here always willing 2 help out when they can
Enjoy the forum and what it has to offer
Cheers
Todd
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Sorin, I have copied your photo's across to a new members ride thread I created for you: http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...-car-s-history
Can you add future photo posts of you car to that thread please, I will leave these ones here
Sorry can't work out how to get rid of the attachment pics at the bottom off post without destroying it in the new thread
Cheers
Todd
Last edited by NissanGQ4.2; 26th January 2014 at 07:56 AM.
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