Honey Badger the Y60

[BrazilianY60]

...when I saw the car, I noticed the brake booster/master cylinder were adapted from another truck available in Brazil.

The booster is still a bit of a mystery. It does look equal to Y60 brake booster pictures I see online, but it has a part number that I checked and belongs to a Nissan Frontier truck (which is available in Brazil, BTW). On Partsouq they are not the same part number though. Maybe it was already adapted on the wrecked car? Who knows... Maybe you good fellows can tell me about you being using Frontier boosters on Patrols...

Time to do some body work on the firewall, so it was time to access the brake booster situation again. The car came with an adapted brake booster from a local Chevy C10 truck from the 80's. The booster seemed to be somehow shorter and then the lip of where the firewall upper and lower sheet metal sections meet was hammered to make it fit. Time for a fix...

This is the booster that came out. Note the stack of washers used to do spacing to some degree. What a rattling can of loosen parts, LOL. I can only imagine how silent my Patrol will be when I sort out all the crap stuff that has been done to it. Also note the weld at the tip of the shaft. It seems to have been shortened. Can´t complain about the brake pedal position though, it was spot on when driving.
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This was the firewall situation. The goal was to fix that lip on the sheet metal but I was surprised to realize that the firewall booster holes were also fckd-up to fit the adapted booster, something that honestly never occurred me. I was naively thinking boosters bolt pattern were somewhat of an industry standard.
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But wait... the firewall is sandwiched between the booster and the brake pedal bracket... if it is like this on the engine bay side, the cab side must have been fckd-up as well, right?
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Here is an OEM pedal side by side with the "creative people" pedal.
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The lip and the sheet metal with the offending holes were beaten back to place.
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