Friday, Jan 16, 2004 at 23:36
Peter, there has been a lot of recent postings about the 4.2T/D overheating and nobody has posted a sure fire fix to date. The matter has been discussed at some length, but I suggest you read Posts # 9668 & 9700 to give you an idea of what's been discussed before. Basically, it seems to be agreed by most owners who've spent some time on this problem that the answer lies either in the radiator itself or the viscous fan. Some have said they've tried aftermarket fans which have not worked. Others have said the genuine Nissan fan is the way to go. I got a price from local dealer today; $387- (+ labour etc if you need it fitted). The radiator I spoke about above, is the way I was going to go using my own local radiator bloke here in country SA (Kadina/
Moonta). However, he has never made up a new radiator from scratch for a 4.2 Patrol before and was going to do it in brass with 3 cores. The bloke at PWR seemed to understand my problem when I phoned him. He said the problem is
well known to them and they've spent a considerable amount of time developing this fix. If you look up their web site you'll see that they specialise in high performance radiators, intercoolers etc. The vehicle featured in 4WD Monthly that I mentioned certainly seemed to be very
well sorted out (for competition by the looks of it). So I imagine that if the new alloy radiator works
well under those trying conditions, it should work as
well for a touring hack like
mine which would be operating more in line with how a diesel was destined to be used. If anybody reading this has used one of these alloy replacements in their truck, it would be nice to hear from you.
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