Russ81

How's it going oldmate? Yeah mate it is bolt, the website is www.hardcase4x4.com.au Sent while be temporally motionless

Fitted up the diff armour and replaced my aux battery

Well she is all tuned and running sweet as just need to re gas the aircon tomorrow and then she is coming home. What an epic 3 months. Vids to follow

Be patient vids are coming but I want to get the car tuned first. I will tell you it sounds fricken sweet.

I got it from eBay, if I recall the seller is mrbushskinz. Cost 174 including delivery by courier

Last night was a magical night, the car was fired up for the first time, just waiting to get the security removed from the ECU so we can kick it over using the key lol

The weekend saw the patrol a few steps closer to completion. On Saturday I removed the lift and took off the light bar and rear work lights ready for the pits, I also fitted the front bash plate. I also took some more pics of the exhaust, seeing as I didnt get any during fabrication. Sunday saw the fitting of the wiring harnesses and wiring up 99% of the car. The fuel tank was dropped and the new sender and pump fitted and the extra wiring ran. The computer was fitted after a custom mount was fabbed and the wiring for the trailer brakes was ran. During the day the Heater hoses, and intake mountings were test fitted.

I have ordered some diff armour and will be doing the wiring this weekend. Here are a few pics from along the way.

Added a few coats of black and clear

The front bash plate arrived today. 5mm thick doesn't look like anything could hurt it.

Just picked up the new tyres and couldn't be happier with the service I received

Just found out for those interested, the harness was done by sideshow performance in QLD.

KM2s were ordered today and the rims dropped off at Tyrepower, should be ready for pick up on mon

Lol wish I had of won lotto, then I would have put a duramax in. Nah just money I've been putting aside each week over the years.

Burning down the house - Tom jones and the cardigans

I've decided to get a set of KM2s but I am waiting to test fit a 35 onto the factory rim to see if the offset gives enough clearance.

Picked up and fitted the factory alloys today ready for the pits

I have now sold the 33" claws and have bought a second set of 17" factory alloys. The plan being to run 6 rims with tyres for touring and the remaining 4 running 35-37" muddies for playing.

The wiring harness and radiator have arrived and the exhaust has been finished. It draws ever closer to being back on the rd

This pic was taken in 2010 up in the Vic high country

Don't worry bigbluemav I will get vids once it's running and hopefully on the dyno.

A bit more detail on what is being done. The car has been fitted with a marks bell housing adapter kit and is running an exceedy clutch and flywheel. The clutch master and slave have been replaced to get a bit more throw. The gauges are cam bus driven and ran off the Nissan computer, with that now gone the gauges need to come out and be rebuilt to suit the the new setup ( this isn't required for a pre CRD conversion) The exhaust is going to consist of custom extractors plumbed into the existing 3" exhaust. Air con and power steering lines are all being custom made to suit and a custom ally radiator is being fabbed to help keep things cool. The wiring harness is now on its way back and should be here early next week.

Dropped the V8 into the engine bay and found a set of factory alloys for when it goes over the pits

One more Also went and bought some factory 17" alloys to chuck on when it goes over the pits