Rockets Wagon

[mudski]

Yeah, the spare sits higher and further towards the outside of the car.





As Nisshead said, it's set up so you can get two 35's on there. I'm sure Rob will make what ever you need though. Give him a call and ask.

Rear bar will have to wait unfortunately. Nice looking bar though...

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[Bacho86]

Nice work mate, I had a chat with rob at the show a couple years ago looking had his bar and can say that I was very impressed. Looks like a very sturdy bar and IMO much better looking than other reasonably priced bars like powerful 4x4, MCC etc.



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[LaughingBeagles]

Ok, a bit of an update to the wagon, been a bit slow of late.

First off I picked up a second hand roof rack and basket (Thanks Nic ). This will come in mighty handy when getting out and about with the extended family.





This allowed me to get an awning, pretty happy with this one 2.5 x 3m ($198 delivered ) It's great.







Next on the list was to get some more lights going. The rack had an old set of lights on the front on some pretty good brackets, so these came off and got rubbed back, rust converted, primed and rust guarded in Satin Black. Came up good.



Then bolted some LEDs on there that were originally on the bulbar. They only sit about 10mm higher than the front of the basket, might bend them down a bit yet.





Now just to wire them up. I have a couple of Carling rocker switches coming to work the roof lights, reversing lights and some left and right side flood lights.

Got itchy feet this afternoon after a planned outing feel through, so took to the centre console with a Dremil and mounted my 2 volt meters.





Stupid bloody thin silver paint Nissan use, you can see where the UHF cord has rubbed the paint off . Something else to fix latter, might wrap it. I think they came up well. I've got a DPDT mini rocker switch coming so I can have them permanently On / Off / On with ignition for both the starter and 2nd battery. I need to get a relay and use an ignition wire to trigger the relay to bring in the 2nd batter for the ignition only display. Sounds like a job for next weekend.

Hey Rocket,

Love the updates mate. Quick question, how did you get the centre console past the gear shift(s) and hand brake? I can't budge mine. I would take out both seats first (easy as) do the three screws (ashtray and two sides) but removing the knobs? Bloody hard as and no luck.

[Rocket55]

It was a bit tricky. Give the handbrake a good application and get it as high as you can. Remove the 3 screws, ashtray light plug and the 2 plugs for the auto button and aerial height button. Unscrew the gear knob from the 4wd lever. The auto "T" bar stays on.

I can't remember the exact combination put pull the auto down to 1st or 2nd gear, lift the rear of the console up and past the handbrake lever, it was pretty close but mine came out this way. It's all in the way you hold your mouth I think.

[LaughingBeagles]

As always, really helpful mate. I appreciate the time to respond and will give it a go.


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[Rocket55]

Few updates for the Rocket wagon. Starts off with some BOSS Chassis bracing



Means rear springs out





Also took the opportunity to fix up the airline going to the top of my airbags as it was all twisted and kinked.

Removed the bump stops and cleaned up the spring hat. I was glad to see that it was all in good nick with no cracks or bends in it.





Cleaned them up, through some silastic in there to stop water and mud sitting between the chassis and the brace (as per the instructions) and bolted the braces in.





The passenger side was a piece of cake. The drivers side was a pita with all the brake lines on top of the spring hat. At the same time I put some 2" blocks inside the spring under the airbag to allow for my suspension lift. Threw it all back together and you'd never know they were in there.



Now I feel more confident everything will be OK when I hang my caravan off the back.

[Rocket55]

Some other bits and pieces turned up during the week also, pretty excited with these.





They are soo much bigger and stronger than the OEM stuff. Set about painting them to avoid any unnecessary attention.



Used the cap of the spray can as a guard to avoid painting the rubber bush, figured it couldn't be good for it.

Came up pretty good in the end.







I'll probably start putting them in next weekend. Hopefully the paint will mostly stay there :? I used Rust Guard satin black. Time will tell I guess.

[Bacho86]

Coming along very nicely Rocket - are these all mods you did on the 3.0L as well and are just transferring learnings or things you never got around to doing but always wanted to?


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[jay see]

I like the idea of painting them. Smart thinking

[Rocket55]

Coming along very nicely Rocket - are these all mods you did on the 3.0L as well and are just transferring learnings or things you never got around to doing but always wanted to?


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No, these are new mods. The chassis bracing is for towing the van. Once I put the rear bar on and got the spare off the rear door and stopped it rattling I could hear a heap of clunking and bang underneath, so it was time for some new bushes anyway, may as well get the arms to go with it. I'm also chasing a vibration in the drive line, so I'm hoping the adjustable uppers will fix that.