@@kaydog890 'cause people buy SodaStreams, use them a dozen times, the novelty wears off and they can't be arsed getting CO2 refills so they go in the kitchen cupboard forever. But the bottles are big and really sturdy, got a nice wide opening, plus designed for repeat use so you're not drinking up so much plastic and shit like a random 3 year old Pump bottle. Tl;dr 'cause no one uses the actual soda stream lol
Seeing Gus start his journy as "the wizard's apprentice" is great, and I am 100% here for revisiting "old topics" in the name of teaching Gus the craft. If he keeps being passionate about building cars he's gonna end up surpassing his old man one day, simply because he has access to quality education from a young age, and I think Al is going to shed a tear or two of pride when that glorious day arrives.
My factory ‘93 TD42 GQ silver top, nearly 600k, never been opened, no blow by, chews no oil, blows no smoke at all, never gets hot, starts first time every time… absolute gem..
Nailed it, if you service it properly you will not have any over heating issues. I bought mine TD42TI new and it has never over heated. It does however only done 100 k and the coolant system has no corrosion . I have installed a Dayco DT79 A thermostat and a UFI Fan. Keep you egt below 550 post turbo and you will be sweet.
Lov'n the biuld, found you guys with the original TD conversation and have watched every vid since but as fellow Patrol nut love the 4WD content. . . That poor TD looks like it's has a long tough life with little to no maintenance for a while, good to see it getting a new lease on life👍👍
Thanks Al and the crew at the skid factory. I've built plenty of td42's. Also had the fun times fixing the failures of zd30 issues. But the joys of fixing yd25's .block damage. Crank and bearing failures. Timing chain issues . Head cracking. Air mass sensor failures. This is a lovely vid of how easy early nissan diesel engines are fun to repair.
If you’re going to replace the head I recommend using OEM Turbo head from Patrol apart, and ARP studs if you’re turboing it. There a lot of other upgrades you can do as well if you had a better budget. I rebuild / re engineer Td45’s, 104mm stroker, 1130nm, 205kwatw, safe tune.
@@jarrod1687 12.5 ltr/100 Tamworth to Sydney and back with 1ton of tools in the back GU Ute H260 4:3 diff. 110km up and down hill on expressway. And yes I have done over 30k now and doesn’t burn a drop of oil, zero blow bye, doesn’t get hot because it’s working easier.
It may be of benefit to someone who runs a TD42 , but when the system starts sucking air & stalling & oil thinning out diesel leak internal , it can just be the $2.50 small seal in front of injector pump , take the front cover off & gear & perhaps the glow plugs out before so no compression issues with getting marked placements back (almost did't get the gear to line back to marks due to compression but did it ) & pump off & easy replace small seal in front of pump . . was quoted $1000 for a replacement 'reco' pump (exchange) in Darwin that probable just had that $2.50 seal fix done previous exchange offer . . lots of sharks up in Darwin
Fwiw, here in Texas, it isn't cold or hot; it's dayum hot! Good to see the mild weather your way hasn't knocked you off the projects! Hope to see more of Gus as he learns the ropes to the decks and spars!!
Now there’s an idea for some merch. Can’t have a skid Factory kettle. What about a Skid Factory coffee cup made from an oil filter. Well. Not an actual one, but you get the idea.
Bugger me. It’s a thing. I just looked it up. They look sick. Done all oily and “grubby hands been on it” looking. Tumblers and oil filter coffee cups. I’d buy a Skid Factory one. Maybe SuperCheap could do a special addition SC & Skid Factory one that helps raise money for a worthy charity.
Thanks for not knocking the old horse! they get asked to do too much some times. then off to the glue factory. Not this one it's in the skid factory love your work
Good to see Gus on the tools and Al doing some old fashioned father son teaching. Yes I'm from Victoria and yes it is cold ATM. Years ago I went to Darwin NT for a week,( No suntan ) I spent one day at the Melbourne show 2 days later and came home burnt to a crisp.
Love to see a TD42 being built! They get a lot of shit for the overheating, and they definitely have some pretty dumb issues with their design but, honestly, so do literally all engines. Every engine has those things you gotta watch out for and there's some kinda weird preventative maintenance that's unique to everything, it's rare that an engine - especially a relatively simple one like this - is just straight up a disaster out the gate. Also, awesome to see Gus back in the shed! Kid's gonna have a sick fleet at this rate, can't wait to see him out in the mud shit talking Hilux guys!
Totally agree. If you get your head around the specific issues, and fix 'em most engines end up perfectly reliable. There's plenty of hate for the YD25 but if you keep an eye on a couple of things (they like to run hot too) and factor in a cylinder head replacement at some stage, they're a good motor that make good power too.
@@brocksinclair66 a Nissan design sold to Toyota (obviously they changed aspects) but it still lacks on horses and toques but is reliable 4.2 black top any day over 1HD
hate to be that guy, but wear gloves guys. Mechanics make up too many victims of things like lymphoma due to exposure to oils and solvents. A friend of mine died in his mid 50s because of that.
Love your work fellas, can't wait to see the big TD crank for the first time 👌 Just a couple of things on TD faults, the pitting in the front timing cover water pump casing is most often caused by cavitation, either by standard water pump impeller blades being too far from the housing, or by having an aftermarket "high flow" water pump that has terrible flow dynamics and cavitates the pump case out bloody fast. There's a bloke in WA that hand makes water pumps for TDs that are supposed to be really good, but you're looking at around $700 and a 6 month wait last I heard. On the other hand, you can just run a genuine water pump with no gasket and a slight smear of silicone With the dual mass crankshafts, harmonics play just as much a role as people fitting huge injector pumps and chasing 200 nagpower. There's a few different mobs out there that have tested them and apparently between 2000 and 2400rpm (where most TDs cruise on the highway in 5th) the harmonics are at their worst. There's a few theories getting around that a Ross harmonic balancer fixes it, others suggest a lightened or aluminium flywheel. Either way if it's in Gus's budget it might be worth sending the crank, flywheel and a new (one that hasn't had the rubber perish after 30 years of oil and heat exposure) harmonic balancer away to be balanced. Either way, have fun with the build, and welcome Gus to the life of owning a four wheeled furnace that burns $100 notes instead of diesel 🤙
I have a 2018 Nissan Frontier(Canada) King Cab Pro-4x 6 speed, (just over 20,000 kms) and have been very happy with the truck since I picked it up. It is my Daily Driver, and I go off-roading regularly. With a bed divider and my gear stowed as far back as possible, the truck has great balance and goes darn near everywhere. A buddy of mine works at a off road shop and was asking me what my future plans for it are, and I don't know if I would mess with it much at all. Maybe High clearance bumpers with a stronger winch and a couple lights, but nothing major. The truck is perfect for the use I give it. *IF I was going to try to build a 'weekender' Frontier that was more capable, I would probably look at a blown engine 2nd gen 2019 Crew Cab Short box, and picking up an insurance auction Nissan Titan XD and doing a 'Titan Swap' BUT... I would have to find a way to either beef up the Frontier 6 speed to handle it, OR find a 6 speed that would. I just wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much with an auto trans. Even with a donor Titan, (Or 2 cheap ones?) it's going to be an expensive project.
You should look at fitting the coolant bypass unit to the rear of watever cylinder head goes back onto the engine. Eliminates micro boiling points. Cheapish and easy to fit.
Nice modest engine stuff, fun for the everyman. I've been thinking about getting a RD28 Laurel and putting a turbo in it. Wouldn't be too expensive for a project.
If you would like a little tip on stop overheating, reduce the size of the bypass in the thermostat housing, and also the clearance to the thermostat All, if you live in a hot climate, close the hole in the thermostat housing and put an AU falcon, thermostat in it, and treat it like a normal engine
Wow! That is so interesting to see. The TD42 has so many similarities to a Toyota 3B-II engine (the later ones with the rotary injection pump). A lot to learn here. Thanks!
As well as give more oil filtration the primary and secondary oil filters are an extremely good design because on cold start when oil viscosity is high or when if primary filter was a bit clogged the oil will bypass but then goes through the secondary oil filter before being fed to the engine
Some rod caps on larger / industrial diesels are fracture joints, where the rod cap simply won't fit any other rod than the one it was broken from. You can of course put one on the wrong rod, but it won't work and with any "feel" you'll notice it's not quite "there" when assembling.
Best Nissan diesel, my view is the QD32, basically 2 cylinders cut off one of these engines to make a simple 4 cylinder. Just wish Nissan used the QD32 for Patrols and added a turbo instead of the blow up common rail ZD30.
Pre chamber diesels went the way of the dodo because their fuel economy and power potential is worse than direct injected. Well, that and emissions. They're actually less smokey than DI, but the high compression ratio they need to start in cold weather makes them bad for NOx.
@@nerd1000ify the pre chamber will always be my favorite, have watched 1940 Cat Diesels being restarted after sitting in a paddock for 40 years with just a quick prime and injector bleed. No electronics to be damaged by corrosion or eaten by rodents. I own a new high pressure turbo diesel, with catalytic regen and Add Blue (cow piss) to keep the C02 down but do love the simplicity of a mechanical injector pump pre chamber diesel
@vintagetintrader1062 yeah the simplicity of the prechamber design is a big draw. I'm actually building a miniature IDI diesel as an engineering project: it has a single cylinder with 32mm bore and 38mm stroke. The main reason I'm going with a prechamber is to keep the injection pressure low... because building an injection pump with a 4mm plunger is hard enough without having to make everything able to seal or physically withstand the pressures you see in direct injected engines.
When I started playing with these over 20 years ago, it use to be 2 different filters, one pre filter the other was a full filter and had to change every 5000km
when i was working at a renault dealer in amsterdam i had one 2l engine from factory oil pan with silocone and they put so much in the factory that it came of and came in the oil pickup and bloked the oil from going in
if you have trouble with the oil warning light in the GU when you do the swap, the 3 litre has 2 oil pressure senders that need to see the same pressure or the oil alert light wont come on when you turn the key on or when its out of oil
