Cameron's Desert Ship - GUIII?

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Added a thread for the water Storage and Pump.

"Water Tank and SHURflo pump in GU with tap on rear door"



Link is here:

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...p-on-rear-door

[cgm]

Oops

Suppose I should have looked what was on the other side first. Just got it perfectly in the wrong spot.

There had been a bit of rain last week, so the sand was relatively firm under the surface. Didn't hit the "wall" too hard, but did push the bar back a bit on that side. Will have to loosen it off and line it up again.

We dug out the front and tried to go forward, but ended up literally balanced on one back and one front wheel. Could rock the car back and forward. Where are the lockers when you need them? Gravity always wins in the end.

Haven't used the shovel in a long time and with the heat starting to build up had to take 10 mins out at the end to still be able to breathe!!

Had to give in to the winch in the end - forgot to get a photo of that.

Had about 15psi in the tyre. From the last photo, I was very lucky not to push the tyre off the rim.

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Haven't been here in this thread for a long time. I notice that Google lost the plot on all my old photo links. Oh, well.

Don't have the Patrol anymore and back in Oz now. Was bumping around on the computer and got distracted looking at old stuff.

Feeling homesick now.

Joined a couple of things together just on Youtube itself (really need to find a video editor). Thought I'd throw a couple of things up incase anyone is interested.

3 Generations of Patrol (Old one, New One and GU one - GU is just right ha ha). The sound with the wind, etc. is pretty ordinary, but when the Y62 takes off to shoot over the dune it does sound pretty cool.



The Y62 was incredibly powerful, but the reality of it's first day in the sand was a lunch time repair using cable ties to hold the rear plastic bumper together.



I think I might have put some of these up before, but I'll link them here again anyway.

[NissanGQ4.2]

Shame google has stuffed up all your pics

Any plans of getting a patrol now your back in OZ???

[cgm]

Shame google has stuffed up all your pics

Any plans of getting a patrol now your back in OZ???

Hi Todd, have the same issue as everyone else. Patrols are too popular and therefore too expensive.

I'd love to have a Patrol and still dream I will down the track. But having had a GU, would find it hard to do the GQ as a daily driver (Driven my mates old GQ a few times to know that). Daily is about 95% of the driving. Had no chance on the short term to afford a GU with all the goodies you get used to. My GU over there was a bit rough around the edges, so I didn't feel I needed to be precious with it, but I had most things done to it. Would be hard to go back either without the goodies or to a GQ. It was a completely different equation over there. Car was cheaper, fuel was almost free and even the goodies were cheaper. Plus over there didn't have much else to do, so justified it.

This is the ideal solution ha ha. A play car and daily driver, but there will be quite a few of us dreaming for a while yet before that happens. It is the way to go though if you can work towards it.
"Its a Nissan! =====> Its a Keeper!! ....... Got a TD42 in it BONUS!! ....... I'm a lucky bugger! I've got 2 of em!"

I bought a Jackaroo for now as it was fairly well kitted out already, low kms and known history. It is comfortable to drive on road and can do 90% of what I'd like to do offroad. Maybe with a few more mods (e.g. front Lokka and proper tyres) it will do 95%. It's a bit thirsty, but I'm still happy that I can have it. Much prefer the compromise and have something rather than nothing. Hopefully it will last a few years at least

Will hang out for my GU one day. The 4.8 was really nice from a power point of view, will try and head down that path. They are so thirsty that most people who have them probably try not to drive them too much. Maybe in another 5 years I can get a good one that has lost value but still has low kms?

[mudski]

It was 15 years for me between Patrols. I even kept my personalised number plate from when I sold the car back then and hung them in my garage as a reminder of the good times we had. Now those plates are on my Patrol I have now.
One day mate. One day...