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29th December 2021, 06:49 PM
#10141
Legendary
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4.5lt Gas blower. Lots of mods to come.....all in good time.
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29th December 2021 06:49 PM
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29th December 2021, 10:41 PM
#10142
The master farter
Changed the oil even though it had done around 2000k since last service.
Letting the oil drain overnight made removing the two oil filters a lot less messy. If you’ve change TD oil filters before you know what I mean.
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30th December 2021, 07:59 AM
#10143
Patrol Freak
Originally Posted by
mudski
Changed the oil even though it had done around 2000k since last service.
Letting the oil drain overnight made removing the two oil filters a lot less messy. If you’ve change TD oil filters before you know what I mean.
Ah, but its only messy if you dont make a little drip tray for the filters with a drain pipe that goes behind the starter
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John
2001 GUII TI 4500 - Now converted to TD42T auto with Nomad valve body
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30th December 2021, 08:08 AM
#10144
The master farter
Originally Posted by
jff45
Bit easier if you have the motor out on a stand. in all seriousness though, almost nothing came out when I removed the filters so I was pretty happy with that.
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30th December 2021, 08:48 AM
#10145
Patrol God
Originally Posted by
jff45
Ah, but its only messy if you dont make a little drip tray for the filters with a drain pipe that goes behind the starter
I never ended up getting this tray from that chicken bloke on the other forum. But was meaning to... Also what a nightmare to install unless motor is on the bench.
Originally Posted by
mudski
in all seriousness though, almost nothing came out when I removed the filters so I was pretty happy with that.
What black magic is this?!
No matter how long I leave it draining out it's always the same. If I look at the internals of the filter, there will always be a pool of oil within it, that cant drain out unless you tilt the car 90 degrees onto the passenger side. And always wooshes out right at that final thread turn of the filter....
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30th December 2021, 08:51 AM
#10146
Patrol Freak
Originally Posted by
mudski
Bit easier if you have the motor out on a stand.
in all seriousness though, almost nothing came out when I removed the filters so I was pretty happy with that.
Much easier.. I was advised to make it while I was doing the conversion and almost didn't because I was getting a bit impatient to get the engine in. Glad I took the time to do it..
John
2001 GUII TI 4500 - Now converted to TD42T auto with Nomad valve body
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30th December 2021, 09:03 AM
#10147
Patrol Freak
Originally Posted by
Hodge
I never ended up getting this tray from that chicken bloke on the other forum. But was meaning to... Also what a nightmare to install unless motor is on the bench.
I was advised that the 'chicken' one didn't always fit depending on which starter motor you had. Mine was a big aftermarket starter so I made one from some scrap colorbond guttering and pop rivets.
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30th December 2021, 03:04 PM
#10148
The master farter
Originally Posted by
Hodge
I never ended up getting this tray from that chicken bloke on the other forum. But was meaning to... Also what a nightmare to install unless motor is on the bench.
What black magic is this?!
No matter how long I leave it draining out it's always the same. If I look at the internals of the filter, there will always be a pool of oil within it, that cant drain out unless you tilt the car 90 degrees onto the passenger side. And always wooshes out right at that final thread turn of the filter....
Dunno what to say mate. Literally not much more than a spoonful came out.
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1st January 2022, 07:06 AM
#10149
Advanced
Few things that didn't all happen in a day.
Been a year and a half since I flushed some seriously chunky rust out of the rad and the coolant was brown again so once again I left it a bit late.
Cut a large Titan fridge slide to size and mounted it on some gate hinges for some tilt.
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Replaced some gas struts to stop the sides on the camper falling on my head and made them a little longer on the kitchen side to give my head a little more clearance when up which is a stop gap to getting some new springs in the rear of the old coil cab.
Took the old girl down Warrnambool and set up camp on a dairy farm where it was ~10c cooler than back home in northern vic.
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Water was borderline boiling point on the way home with the ambient nearing only 40c I had to turn the AC off a few times to keep it under the first max temp line while going up some hills.
The EGT going from the usual 250-300 to 300-375 post turbo was still ok.
It was interesting turning the AC on while rolling down a hill in second you could actually feel the ute lurch as it cut in.
Also been in contact with WolfBox about some intermittent gremlins with my rear view camera and they have been excellent to deal with sending me out a replacement right away and then asking if I would like to send them some video of the old units touch screen problems.
They seem keen to improve there product and are looking into what went wrong with mine.
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1st January 2022, 12:02 PM
#10150
Patrol God
Originally Posted by
jff45
I was advised that the 'chicken' one didn't always fit depending on which starter motor you had. Mine was a big aftermarket starter so I made one from some scrap colorbond guttering and pop rivets.
Yep I fitted an after market starter and had to take mine off, but good news is I still have it to fit to the new patrol
2003 gu3 td42tdi sold 😞 bloody gvm towing crap. Bt50 3500kg gvm.
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