Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

It's looking quite fine so far.

Progress? Coils in yet?

Slow going yesterday and today. Struggling with fairly heavy winds that mess up my welds. Also crappy trying to work with nothing more than a little 2ton trolley jack that can only reach 200odd off the ground. Its now the puzzle where everything is fitting. Where I thought I was putting the panhard in, is too close across the front of the sump, so now my shocks have to move. I am struggling to get the car up on the axle to see what my compressed length is on my coils. This kinda dictates where everything gets mounted to the chassis. Coil top buckets are mostly together, one on the right need to get the panhard bar mount. Looks like I am following Jors, and will not be able to get my panhard the same length as the drag link. And somehow, I don't seem to have the same amount of space left on my axle for my coils. Possibly his coils are smaller than mine. I am using GQ coils.

I still have that pair of Defender coils lying here.
You should have taken them.

Too late now.

What a pain. Diff has been in and out 3 time today trying to work around my lack of jacking equipment, and worried the Sani is going to fall of it's stands. Only way I can do this, is to guess the height, do the buckets on the chassis, and see what I actually get. Pull the buckets off the chassis and adjust as needed.

Wanted to build this, but there were concerns about strength, and I don't think I have the time left to do this anyways.

I ran out of EVERYTHING yesterday afternoon. I have 60mm total offcut left of my steel. 3 welding rods, and a few mm left on my last cutting disk, and my grinding disk is basically fubar as well. Got no transport to get into town. My steel place can't do deliveries as their driver is off sick for the week. So, as anxious as I am, I'm stuck, and sitting on my hands. I hopefully have someone going to town tomorrow morning, but I will have to hang around till around 3pm before he comes back. Work will only continue on Friday, on the day I am supposed to be out of my house, and I have not started packing up my garage yet.

Just saw this. Not sure if you have the rear axle issue.

With all the time and logistics pressures at the moment is it not better to rather cut everything out and bolt up the standard stuff again?
Start this project afresh one day when there’s not so much pressure?

Graham, not possible anymore. To make the arms fit, I had to cut the leaf mounts on the chassis off as they were in the way. There is so much welding on the axle for the new brackets, no amount of cutting and grinding is taking me back. Besides, in the Cape, we are living bush camp style, deep sand, and temporary accommodation. Only a 2.5Kw inverter off a few panels and 200Ah/48v of battery. Transport of my stuff to CT is also limited. Whats not bolted /welded and installed on the Sani is going to scrap. I am already in a house that has a echo.

Jakes, I don't have lift blocks, so my axle wrap should not be that bad. We will see once I start pushing double gearing through 35s. But for now, I only expect to be doing a bunch of sand driving. Our site and accommodation is in a sand pit, Atlantis type sand.

Weekend is almost done, you're almost due in the Cape, are you finished yet?