Nissan Patrol

[shortymav]

I should mention this will be a slow build as im an apprentice Fitter and turner and well apprentice wages suck!

Well ive done some growing up i sold my old GQ patrol 4.2 diesel Short Wheelbase

and got this :D

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P1000198.jpg


here the old rig
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r71/Trail-rush/Gembrook/Overnight/P1030800-1.jpg

The new rigs specs are as follows
the good bits
4.2 turbo intercooled diesel engine
150l fuel storage
2" Old man Emu lift
snorkle
cargo barrier
driving lights
winch
bullbar

gotta make a rear storage system for the fridge 50l waeco, add some water storage, hot shower system and then start thinking about what else i can do!
pics will come soon

[BKCowGod]

nice... I've always liked those things.

you gonna transplant the Ford badge?

[The BN Guy]

Rebadged Maverick maybe?

[mcm4090]

Nice.:)

[vengeful]

Just a wild guess here, but by the screen name "shortymav" and the Ford Badge, I'd have to say his Patrol is actually a SWB Ford Maverick. Identical in every way to the Nissan Patrol, just with a Ford emblem on it, and very possibly, a lower price tag.

Congrats on the new rig.


Oh, and this thread is worthless without pics!! :shakin:

[BKCowGod]

you're right, they do look alike :P (stupid auto manufacturers, why do we have to keep reusing names?)

http://www.maverick.to/pics/shaw_simpson_72_grabber.jpg

[shortymav]

here is the new car, sorry for the confustion the old one was pictured above the new one is below

135l fuel capacity from factory :D


http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P1000199.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P1000198.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P1000196.jpg

[shortymav]

spent a weekend up in the victorian high country snaped a few pics

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow032.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow036.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow037.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow039.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow040.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow043.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow050.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow052.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow054.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Snow%20Trip/ow055.jpg

[2K54X4]

Sweet pics! Those snow pics are beautiful. Makes me long for winter, I love wheeling in the snow.

[The BN Guy]

Very...cool!

[shortymav]

Bought and wired up a dual battery system on the weekend :D
ARB dual batt tray and system
also extended the diff breathers using pnematic fittings and 8mm hose

[mrbishi]

Cool mate - what batteries did you fit?

Did you get the SurePower 1314 battery isolator with the ARB kit?

I picked one up from ARB and after about a year it started working intermittently. I pulled it apart the other day, took it out of its case, gave it a good shake and spray with WD40 and its back to working good as new. Just a tip if yours ever plays up.

[JeffWA]

Love the snow pictures! I've never seen snow in the flesh! :(

you're mate is obviously a kiwi hey? "hungy". :chowtime:

[shortymav]

No he is and auzzie, its me to be hungee prounouced as its a 100 series cruiser but hungee was taken for plates

[JeffWA]

lol, of course. I should have guessed that! I guess I must have just been hungry when I looked at the photos! :peepwall:

[4Rescue]

here is the new car, sorry for the confustion the old one was pictured above the new one is below

135l fuel capacity from factory :D


http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P1000199.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P1000198.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P1000196.jpgThat is such a cool lokin truck... I LOVE the Skinny tires, and the snow pics are great... I gotta say though, I can't get over how much it looks like an 80 series Cruiser, it's really kinda Odd. Love it though espescialy the Hood Scoop.

Cheers

Dave

[shortymav]

Put in the UHF today just a small GME tx3400 with remote head, the main body is hidden up above the blove box nice and high and the remote heat is mounted on the trim piece next to the gear lever so night drives the backlight doesnt hurt your night vision

comming in the next few weeks are slider's drawers and a fridge slide maybe aswell.

[JeffWA]

Sounds like how I did my remote head Uniden. I put my UHF above the glove box where the passenger side airbag would go and the remote head right here: ( I also whacked an external GME speaker under it )

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/2402669623_02c9a627c9.jpg

[calamaridog]

Very nice indeed:drool:

[bigdog]

man, those are some great pictures - but sh!t is too cold for me!

:suning:

needed that just to thaw out

[shortymav]

bit of an update, drawers are under construction, intially out of 20x20 box section steel, then when im happy with teh design they will be made out of 20x20 alluminium :D for a weight saving

also finished a rear table, but not fitted yet made out of some scrap 10mm thick alluminium plate at work, milled out the inside 3mm so anything that falls over will not spill over the rear door. trying to figure out how to mount it with some small gas struts like on a car bonnet

Work has been pretty good to me, im an apprentice and they give me and the other boys free use of there tools, welding bay, tool room (mill lathe ect :D) and scrap material. also my boss gives me a hand doing some of the trickier stuff

[olympiccop2002]

Your rig looks great! I wish I had access to a shop like you do... And free metal scraps too! :D

Bjorn

[miller_au]

Good lookin GU you got there mate! couple more comforts than the mav hey?!

[shortymav]

OH yeah worlds apart from the mav, its got aircon :D still no cruise control, manual windows!

but for distance driving its much more comfy, stops better, uses less fuel ect


well planning our newyears trip, going to be a shakedown run for the rigs we have all (3 best mates) picked up new to us cars, 2 x 03 TD6 GU patrols and one 99 turbo diesel 100 series cruiser. so 6-9 days up in the malle country going to be hot but good, then should have a trip to the strezleci ranges or similar planned that will be 2 weeks or so.

Now i have a dead line of the end of the year to get the rig the way i want it, on an apprentice wage this will be no mean feat.

rear table, needs to be installed
drawers, need to get my *** into gear
3" lift kit installed - sitting in my room
stronger arms made up - get off my ***!

canvas awning purchased

[shortymav]

is arse spelt a s s really banned here!

[Spikepretorius]

That's odd
*** is a donkey and arse is the actual swearword. But then you Americans did have a knack of getting the English language a bit muddled

[shortymav]

small update finished my sliders :D


just have to mount them to the chassis, plate steel is welded to the chassis and the sliders then bolt up to those plates, using high tensile bolts

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Car/IMG_8748.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Car/IMG_8749.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Car/IMG_8750.jpg

[mcm4090]

Nice work.:o

[FourByLand]

Wow, very nice set up!

[miller_au]

lookin good mate! my sills are praying for the day i get a set of sliders!!

[shortymav]

Small update

Pictures of sliders mounted

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/PC160049.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/PC160050.jpg

also made a shelf for my fridge replacing 1/2 of the rear seats
its anchored at the front with long brackets from the original seat bolt hole, and at the rear they are mounted on the cargo barrier with plate sandwiched between the cargo barrier and the bracket

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/PC160047.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/PC160048.jpg

[shortymav]

well i cant fault the old girl she went 1500km of driving with no problems, beach, corrogations ect, looks like i need some wider tyres and a few more mods to the way i pack my gear ect here is a few pics from the trip

Half packed with gear, only swag and rucksack to go
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/PC240054.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050102.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/IMG_8914.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/IMG_8913.jpg

some of the scenery and tracks

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1040092.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050105.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050106.jpg

[shortymav]

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050108.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050138.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050146.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050146.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/IMG_8930.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050098.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050100.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050112.jpg

[shortymav]

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050117.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050128.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050129.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/Beachport/P1050140.jpg

[shortymav]

few updated pics well two!
running MTZ's now has a mean stance and love the tyres.
finished installing my on board air no pics of that yet, 12v compresser 1/2 horsepower to 7l tank probly going to install another tank inline or a bigger tank.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/P4100225.jpg

quick camp setup in the Victorian High country,
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/3122_79296097550_632732550_2120206_.jpg

view from my swag, and first crossing of the day
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/3122_79296162550_632732550_2120207_.jpg

[02TahoeMD]

Nice rig, and nice beach pics. They remind me a lot of the Outer Banks of North Carolina here....of course, your beach pics are way cooler simply because they are in Oz! Nice Patrol, good looking truck. Kudos.

[shortymav]

Well its been a long time comming but ive finally got my arse into gear and building a new drawer system after the old one was poorly designed and built in a hurry!

quick mockup of what i expect to get from google sketchup,
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/drawers.jpg
missing some supports as my computer skills arent to crash hot! will have ply sides and top piece contoured to suit the car and the rear part will house my compressor and airtank up against my cargo barrier.

purchased the steel today and started cutting up the pieces and hope to start welding it together on Sat, then need to get the wood sorted for the top, sheet metal for the drawers sized and built up aswell as aquire some runners.

work just aquired a new sheet metal bender so drawers should be a good test for it, hopefully more pics to follow!

[Co-opski]

Shortymav~
I'm enjoying the build. I would like to know more about your fender flairs around your wheel wells. It looks to be a heave rubber material. I would like to do the same on my rig to keep the spray down.

[shortymav]

Its a flare sold in 4wd shops here, I think its called bushranger but ill have to find out, comes in a big roll, has a lip for the guard you cut to length insert steel wire to stop sag (got mine second hand no wire) and then tek screw or rivet it onto the guards.

I got them to stay road legal, our rules in australia are s**t house

[shortymav]

well didnt get much done on sat because I worked so sunday I got a bit more done

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/drawers001.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/drawers003.jpg

single car garage and driveway workshop :Wow1: I hate it!

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/drawers002.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/aussie_extreme/drawers004.jpg

looking more like drawers :sombrero: