Do people give up on the zd30 way to quickly

[mudski]

yeah exactly my 06 has 275000 on it and still going strong but i wanted an engine as a base for a rebuild for just in case and the one i got is in pretty good nick apart from the turbo which if you don't mind a cheap one you can get for $400 on ebay a bit like the one with a cracked head you can get a new head off ebay with valves for about $1200 that's a lot cheaper than a conversion

Yes those cheap ebay turbos are garbage. I saw one first hand last November. A customer came to me after being his NAD'S kit from me and had issues tuning it. I told him to bring it around and I'll do it for him. (His intercooler was like a strainer, lol). Anyhow I saw the new turbo and for some reason I put my hand on the outlet pipe of the turbo to give the hose a good move to see if it was on tight. The inlet half of the turbo was moving against the outlet half. Like the to halves weren't held together. It was quite bizarre.

[macca86]

I lost faith in my zd30 and now own a gu iv td 42ti.
Blown turbo was like 3000 to get a shop to do it. Nads install couple of hundred. New clutch and fly wheel 2000, gearbox let go 1500 for a second hand one and the straw that broke my back injectors went was going to cost 3000 car was worth 6000 so sold it for 3000 and that feeling of disaster and what if something goes wrong when I'm out in the bush has now vanished and I now enjoy 4wding again.
People love their car know what it does and holds sentiment value. Buying a new one with a better motor is normally more expensive than the conversions.
If I didn't get a good price for my current td42ti I would have done a conversion.
Not gospel but I believe a td42 conversion is about 15 000 and a l98 auto conversion (6.0 with 6 speed auto from a ss) is about 20000 IMHO I'd rather either of these than a 8-10000 rebuild of a zd30.
Obviously if you're handy on a spanner it gets cheaper

[mudski]

Something I need to do. Get off my rrs and start this td sitting im my garage.

[onlyme376]

Yeah I can see where people come from when the have issues I question weather the issue sometimes is they are used as a shopping cart constant cold starts and shorts trips like drop the kids to school then home sit for 6 hrs and then repeat when I was looking there was a salesman at a nissan dealer trying to convince me to by one that had under 100000 on it and the owner who was a diesel fitter owned it had to rebuild it. Apparently he went to the mines every week in a different car and his wife used the patrol and it blew at 90000. My thoughts were if he was a decent diesel fitter who should have known how to look after it and would rather the one that had 180000 on it had was still good the one i eventually got had well over 200000 on it when i got it but it was mostly highway work and no NADs done so I bought t knowing it may need rebuilding at some stage but it is still good at 275000 and when I removed the inlet manifold to clean the crap out it wasn't to bad. Fortunately though I do have a really good diesel fitter / machinist in the family so a rebuild should come fairly cheap compared to some of the figures i have seen banded around

[Throbbinhood]

Old man's 03 GU zd30 has done half a million km's now, no nads, and he only services it every 25,000-50,000kms... Tops up the oil in between but that's it. He has towed his almost 2T boat from Melbourne to QLD and back at least 5 or 6 times. He's never had an issue with the car, except the auto being a bit slippy when it was low on oil. And after half a million kms he's still getting 12L/100km's on 33's on the highway.

[4bye4]

Old man's 03 GU zd30 has done half a million km's now, no nads, and he only services it every 25,000-50,000kms... Tops up the oil in between but that's it. He has towed his almost 2T boat from Melbourne to QLD and back at least 5 or 6 times. He's never had an issue with the car, except the auto being a bit slippy when it was low on oil. And after half a million kms he's still getting 12L/100km's on 33's on the highway.

Probably if it grenades at one million k's, someone will say I told you so.LOL

[Throbbinhood]

Probably if it grenades at one million k's, someone will say I told you so.LOL

Hahahaha, yeah, any day now...

[Magician]

no such thing as a cheap 3 litre di turbo people are asking 4.5 to 5.5 k which is ridiculous mine has just gone i will be gettin the $1200 rebuild kit that includes pistons and rebuilding it.

[Magician]

RAAA have never had an expert so called or otherwise

[mudski]

no such thing as a cheap 3 litre di turbo people are asking 4.5 to 5.5 k which is ridiculous mine has just gone i will be gettin the $1200 rebuild kit that includes pistons and rebuilding it.

Add a new head, turbo, injectors and then labour, 4.5 -5.5k is reasonable.

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