Roachie is resorting to Toyota parts :))

This may help him with that problem.

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dropped the temp on the guage by about half.

Cheers Bruce

He Better be careful, it may end up on a flat tray again but by itself!!! hahahaha

Roachie, Roachie, Roachie!!!!!

WTF

lol

This one?

Da outing of Da Roachie?

Geoff

Kev

Maybe thats the reason he went to that site, to ask the question?

So he got a clear and easy to understand answer.. compared to what he would have got from this site,, LOL

:-) cheers

Richard

no reply yet from the Roach....ah well....


come one Roachie...!!

Me thinks that someone is having a lend!!!! As if I'd be likely to even LOOK at the toymota site, let alone join it or post anything on there..... perish the thought!!!!

No, it seems someone is trying to set me up........ that's the only explanation i can think of.

Cheers

Roachie

I'd still go for genuine 'Yota' parts, Roachie. Many parts sold on Ebay are cheap copies of the genuine stuff.
At least if you put the genuine in and you have problems, then you know it's the Nissan design and not the bits :)))

For what little it may be worth.

Back when I investigated a Chev 6.5 for the 80 series including a trip to Brunswick and a chat with the lads there, I came away worried about overheating.

I was pretty keen on a turboed 6.5 and they tried REAL hard to talk me into the naturally aspirated - due to problems encoutered up north in the Pilbara with air conditioned / Turboed 6.5's.

So - while in the Pilbara and talking with a diesel fitter - well renowned in the area - he suggested to me theres an inherrant fault with the 6.5's that the Brunswick guys being located so far south in the cooler southwest - haven't yet discovered / realised.

He says that the engine design has too small an oil capacty in the sump, to deal with the water jacket designs ability to shed heat thru the radiator.

He claimed that, IF they would just increase the sump capacity a few liters with some wings welded in and add more volume with an aftermarket oil cooler (another couple liters) - and even add some bypass filtering for another litre or so capacity, that the relatively small sump capacity could be increased enough - and the oil cooled enough, to easily cope with the high temps in the Pilbara.

Relying on the inadequate water jacket surface area for heat exchange in that particular engine to keep a relatively small amount of sump oil cool - just won't work in the temps up there.

One summer day last year was 48.5 C ambient temp - 44 degrees is a regular occurrence in the monsoon season.

The Chevs COULD be a good conversion IF they would increase the oil capacity and cool it.

Because they don't they get over hot and leak oil like a seive which is why they have such a bad reputation as a conversion with turboes and in the heat up north.

Take it or leave it for what little it may be worth.

Cheers

Hubby has brought stuff off Roodog a few times (mostly wheel bearings I think) and was pretty happy with the service.