Nissan TD42 Rebuild. Almost made 1 MILLION KMS!

[@Pattog88]

Best episode yet 😂 i can't thank you enough and to everyone that helped out. I'm sure we'll get another million km out of her now.

[@holdenbrougham1056]

Best nissan diesel ever done , such a reliable set up that just worked day in day out

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Yes mate they very reliable

[@VaughanMunro-js4nr]

Great Video. Doing something different keeps the channel interesting. It's still mechanical and diesel and a work vehicle. It's good to see it running and being driven round the property at the end of the episode.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it

[@robertstevison1448]

Brother I've said it before haters are like farts they dissipate with the wind they are just envious that you have a popular channel and they have emptiness

[@weburnitatbothends]

Haha love it "feel the power it's making hey, he's not getting this back!"

[@stevesplacedownunder]

🤣🤣🙄🙄

[@LordGrievous1970]

14:11 Shit the bed!! HAHAHAHA! Haven't heard that expression for YEARS!

[@stevesplacedownunder]

It’s said a bit here mate🤣🤣

[@1978JonBullock]

My dad had a non turbo version in the late 80's that he sold with over 500k and the guy who bought it put another 300k roughly and then he sold it because the other parts were worn out. Great engines. Nice work lads.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi Jon. Yes they are beautiful engines mate. I’m sure it’s still going now too

[@mattellis6306]

Good old TD engines I’ve heard of them doing over 30k hours in forklifts. Good basic design no cambelt or cam chain to worry about either.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi Matt. Yes mate I have no doubt at all. It’s a lot in a forklift too because they aren’t working hard.

[@GippslandLakesExplorer]

Long live the old TD42! I've had a couple over the years. Thanks Steve.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thanks for watching mate🙏

[@robertstevison1448]

Awesome adventure as always brother having to watch little by little the Mrs is an awesome camera lady steady hands and straight on thank you for helping with the camera sounds better every time you hit the key

[@Neil-ru7kw]

Hi Steve and guys . That's around 600k miles for us . If not fried , who knows . Either way it's awesome . I'm 74 and remember cars in the 50s being lucky to make 70k miles . My 2000 Toyota sienna has 289k . Only things replaced : orig alt. and rad. , both around 270k . It uses 3/4 qt. of oil in 3000 mi . Absolutely the best jitny I've ever owned . Cheers and 🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate thanks for watching. Yes it’s a lot of distance covered by it. Always serviced too which greatly helps. Your Toyota will do a lot more yet

[@arcanewyrm6295]

I've got a Camry sitting out at the curb with 211k miles (335,000ish km?) that's just received a new radiator and is awaiting a new head gasket and another head. Only a 2AZ-FE 4cyl, but I imagine she's got at least another 100k miles (160k km) in her. Definitely something to be said for both Toyota and Nissan motors.

[@darylstorer3369]

G'day Steve, thanks for that mate. You bought back some bloody good memories for me of the old ninetys model I had back in my bush bashing day cobber. 🤠

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Glad they were good memories Daryl 😅😅. Very good mate

[@davidzoelman873]

Driving a toyota tundra in Canada. Really miss the manual diesel trucks when we worked on a few stations your way. Great job and videos you put out.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi David thanks for watching mate. Yes they are tough these old trucks

[@MattysWorkshop]

Gday Steve, sounds good now, that trays got more rattles then a millionaires baby, local company I worked for here had patrols for the bush’s crews, 850k and flogged from new and still never burnt oil, there still got a couple that I’d say now would have over the million, top episode mate, cheers

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Sorry for late reply mate. Yes it rattles a lot. They great old utes. Go really well and reliable as buggary

[@jacklivermore6329]

Great video, getting mine rebuild right now.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thank you mate. All the best with it

[@gravelrashadventures5051]

it sound great older diesels sound great

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate yes they certainly do.

[@robertstevison1448]

Awesome evening little brother from another country down under how are things going this is awesome that's a hoss of an engine great to see yall again say hi to everyone for me

[@chrisjcannady]

good to see your stuff

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thank you mate

[@johngibson3837]

Hey up Steve nice cruisey video thanks mate

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Glad you liked it John. Thank you mate

[@MartsGarage]

Nice job Steve. Sometimes something different is a good thing. Keeps things fresh. I'm a points and condenser guy. I'd be lost if asked to time that diesel. All the best, Mart in England.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thanks for watching Mart. It is good to do different stuff mate yes. It just doesn’t get the views I usually get though. Mainly from people that follow me for me and not just an interesting thumbnail mate

[@alexgarrod9093]

Hi Steve nice job

[@MarcSmarrelli-ud8ek]

Good job Steve enjoyed the video.👍👍

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi Marc thank you mate

[@MickBurns-ev1nn]

Good job Steve. Doesn’t matter what you’re doing or how you go about it, there’s going to be a thousand blokes telling you that you’re doing it wrong. Welcome to the 21st century, apparently 😊. I enjoyed every minute of it, mate

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi Mick. Yes mate that’s right. I never realised how bad it actually was until I started the internet journey

[@iksexplorationsfollower2588]

Good Video Steve, nothing wrong with showing / doing something a little different.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate yes that’s right. They usually don’t perform as well as our normal content though

[@MarvinHowell-k4u]

Great video. Enjoyed this a lot.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thank you mate🙏

[@georgemeldrum554]

awesome job Steve

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thank you George🙏🙏

[@kennethparent8544]

Hey Steve thanks for posting another great video and I love your videos and I hate people who disagree with a method that someone has just because they disagree with your technique there's no reason to be nasty about you can give an opinion without being nasty anyway I like your videos and your technique a shout out to you from here in Massachusetts in the USA Steve take care my friend keep up the hard work I love it and enjoy these thank you

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi Kenneth thanks as always mate. It’s good to have positive comments. Shoutout back to you mate from Sydney Australia

[@kennethparent8544]

@@stevesplacedownunder you are welcome always my friend always interesting content and enjoyable also take care

[@zonie70]

Great video mate . Much to be enjoyed in it . There will always be nay sayers Steve , just gotta let their comments roll off and not get under your skin . Always good to see something from your place . Scott 🌵

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thank you mate. Yes most of them I do.

[@ericjohnson6802]

Best way to get oil pressure on new td42 is to lift the back of the car up over a metre or so. I found that greasing the pump gears often won't work, they need oil forced up the pick up. Works every time for us.

[@Sircraig7963]

G'day Steve, Mate , you knock out some pretty funny vids , there's no doubt about it . But this one had me cracked up , I'm pretty sure most of us would dob our cobber in for thinking the toolbox was the cold drink machine , but the best of it was most likely unintentional. There was so much innuendo the only explanation is that my mind is dirtier than your shop floor . Thanks for sharing it with the faithful, It was truely a classic . You might have to look back over this one yourself , because old " Rodney Rude " himself would be proud to turn out this kind of quality . Keep em comming digger. Respect....!

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Gday Craig. I don’t realise it’s even coming out of my mouth mate to be honest. It’s all so normal to me now. I don’t change from, camera, to home, to work. Talk the same wherever 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@outlawdingo3020]

Mine td did about 600,000km before the pre comps fell out and punched through cylinder 1 did some deep research given that the motor had been flogged and overheated plenty of times I cut my losses and fed about 30k into a new engine straight out of Japan

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Yeah okay mate. I believe they had an overheating problem, but this one was fine until a heater hose let go.

[@patrickryan9037]

Deadset need a bloke like you as a mate.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏🙏🥰

[@stevemurnane1892]

Nissan have always done their motors to perfection. I'm on my 4th Nissan car now. Pity they can't get the CVT to last. My first was a 88 Skyline, same donk that GMH bought for the VL Commode. Motor was so quiet you had to lift the bonnet to hear it running.

[@zonie70]

I agree with you on Nissan engines. I live in the US and we have had a Nissan engine called the VC turbo here for a few years . I just wonder if you guys have it down there ? In the Nissan Rogue it is a 1.5 3 cylinder variable compression engine. Really unique , but I believe far too complex .

[@prevost8686]

Unfortunately their CVT transmissions have given them such a bad reputation here in the states that they don’t sell nearly as many vehicles as they used to. No manufacturer’s CVTs are any good. Just a $5,000 throw-away unit.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate. Yes they have always made a good product. Very reliable

[@darcykeddell4930]

Havent seen a vc turbo here we have the qr25 mostly ​@zonie70

[@zonie70]

@@darcykeddell4930 Thanks for the reply on that post mate . Didnt reall apply to what Steve was working on , but I wanted ask . The QR25 is a really good engine. These VC engines are having issues. Too many extra moving parts in my opinion, Thanks again 🌵

[@wonjat5]

Good job, nice easy start and oil pressure right.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Yeah it was good mate after we got pressure up

[@jbrizz99]

That oil feed is for the vac pump feed. The consensus seems to be it's not sufficient for a turbo. The spot to get the feed just above the engine mount (just below where you are getting it). That or a T off the pressure sender are the two places people seem to agree are best.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thank you mate

[@skylinefever]

Nissan sixes are some of the greatest sixes ever built. Back in May 1998, I read a magazine about how people could get 450HP out of a 300ZXTT. I read about what a heated wire mass air sensor was, and knew I could work on modern cars. I looked into why the Nissan VG-series was tough right from day one. I also looked what why the GM 2.8/3.1/3.4 was trash. I also tried to find out why Nissan could share a lot of L series gasoline parts with the LD28. How did they do it when the Olds diesel shared a lot of gasoline parts, and became a dumpster fire? From what I could read, it involved having lots of head bolts and a whole lot more metal. 2:24 Could you see if it was drilled all the way? I think about how variants of engines would sometimes roll off the same assembly line with many different quirks attached, whether needed or not. From 1987 to some time in the 1990s, there were two common versions of the small block Chevy. The TBI and TPI. The TBI had a flat lifter cam and the TPI had a roller cam. However, most of the roller cam provisions were cast into the TBI. If you machined flat, drilled, and threaded certain casting bosses in the TPI, you could install the roller cam spider. It was an absolute bargain starting point for people looking to build a hot rod 350 short block. Perhaps the turbo provisions cast into the non turbo Nissan TD42 aren't completely finished. The manufacturer just wanted to cast two very similar blocks and have as many common parts as possible. 10:30 Kind of a bummer they didn't get some kind of OEM rebuild, or a new OE supplier turbo. Also, maybe get one from a higher end TD42. I have heard of people turning to another OE supplier for a match to OEM. In the VW TDI community, some people would swap a Garrett for Borg Warner or vice versa, when a certain model was in a better VW TDI variant. In the USA, it is common to replace the Borg Warner KP39 of the Jetta/Golf PD100 for the Garrett VNT17 PD130 Passat because it performs better.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate thanks for watching and all the info. All very interesting. Yes it was drilled all the way through. It is a shame that it’s not OEM but the bloke that supplied it uses them and has a great reputation so im okay with it

[@skylinefever]

@@stevesplacedownunder Good, I always dread what mystery turbos buy.

[@jackpinesavagerepair1918]

Howdy 🤠 from the Northwoods of Minnesota. There some real Shitters on the web. Claim they master Machinist and you suppose to kiss their feet. As Aron Tippen would say, Kiss This. We need to support one another and help people. Furthermore there many not fortunate to have someone in their life to teach them to maintain their car's or equipment. God Bless all and take care, keep the greasy side down all

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate yes that’s right. I will share what I know and stand corrected when wrong. It’s all a learning curve for me. As long as it’s positive criticism im all about it. A lot of the stuff I have was built many years before I was around

[@warrenbourne498]

I had a 1993 Nissan patrol non turbo and that done a million when I sold it and it is still going

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Yeah mate I have no doubt at all after seeing this one

[@markwalsh8030]

Well done Steve, always a bit nerve racking on first start up after a rebuild 😬

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi Mark. Yes mate that feeling will forever be there on the first start

[@keithnewby7949]

Hello Steve hope you and the family are good enjoyed the video nice engines Nissan like the old Toyota engines the same looked after seem to go forever Steve. Any how mate keep doing what your doing like what you do and as for the keyboard warriors who dont like .are like someone else said farts they just dissappear probably never had a spanner in there hand eather

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi Keith yes mate we are all going well here. I like them also mate. Most Japanese stuff is good reliable equipment

[@andymursell2301]

Geez you’d be handy to have as a mate! Good video to see something different but yeah bring on the big girls

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thanks for watching Andy🙏🙏

[@Brad_The_Truckie]

That motor would be worth more then the Ute now, getting rarer

[@stevesplacedownunder]

They are getting hard to find yes mate

[@td42williams77]

Good vid mate. Pretty sure that's a factory turbo block going by the T stamped on the end of the engine ? Just something I noticed

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Hi mate. Yes it may well be. I was just told the had to get a natural block because that was all that was around at the time. I think it’s just the turbo drain they had to drill and tap

[@cantwellron11]

Yeah I like Garett turbo,s water cooled like ya say every one has different views CHEERS FELLAS Good ta see ya still here

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Thanks as always Ron. I’d say it will be fine mate. Just that the original one had proved itself

[@adrianorourke2893]

It's good for another million if the body lasts that long. In my opinion Nissan made some of the best car and ute engines out there as long as they are serviced properly. Most after market parts I have used never fit or last as well as OEM parts but some times we have to use them. I have to use after market parts on my old Pommie tractors and sometimes they fit properly and sometimes not.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

I’d say she will go that long mate yes. As long as the aftermarket parts last. No they never fit properly without some modifications. Hope you are well

[@mick00000000002]

Blue print with play do it don't hits ?

[@allandoyle3555]

I'm with you mate...I would not trust that turbo...unless it's a brand that's been proven...not after doing all that work...

[@DuncanMargetts]

Be nice to see an intercooler in - something to catch the shrapnel.

[@peterwright2692]

Needs an Engine Guard

[@robertstevison1448]

To all the haters that come on here to cause grief keep scrolling if you don't agree with the videos I agree that viewers are viewers but to badmouth Steve is unacceptable

[@jimmyjazz9014]

Japanese engines have improved out of sight over the years

[@stevesplacedownunder]

They are great things mate yes

[@robertstevison1448]

I am trying to catch up with yall just do things your way brother your videos your way constructive criticism and hints are alright but I'm sure that you are very competent to do your job

[@robertstevison1448]

The test drive was kinda rough seemed like but all is well

[@martinworrall5888]

Don’t you sleep at night Steve 😂

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Not as much as I’d like mate no

[@mick00000000002]

For a change im interested

[@stevesplacedownunder]

You don’t have to watch mate

[@mick00000000002]

Old gear start. Sorry over it. New is better mate. )

[@holdenbrougham1056]

G,day Steve the Nissan engine rebuild cost around 10 grandish?

[@stevesplacedownunder]

It was around that with everything mate yes

[@oldamericaniron5767]

We don’t need to get a million miles in my part of the world, they turn into rust long before that.

[@stevesplacedownunder]

I believe so from what you have told me mate yes.

[@biggles9604]

yeah td42 oil pressure is just low. my td42 N/A idles at 19psi warm. cold start around 43psi idle. tried running thicker oil and it was still 20psi warm. the turbo pumps do run higher pressure due to the piston cooling jets and thus they have larger pump gears. low oil pressure is just a TD thing bahahaha. they still do millions of KM's

[@izaacbanks3337]

indirect injection I belive is the worst part of the 1hz and td42 engines

[@stevesplacedownunder]

It’s been a great thing this one

[@izaacbanks3337]

@@stevesplacedownunder they are bloody good engines i just prefer the DI for power and fuel efficency granted IDI injectors are cheaper