Still got a little death wobble but with 37”s and no power steering it’s not terrible, gonna add a stabilizer soon. Having a ball with this thing and it almost has 10,000 miles on it now.
Had to retire the old Allpro Toyota bed and building a proper flatbed for the fire truck so I decided to dig the hole deeper and perform the spring over lift wile stretching the wheelbase 12”. It never F’n ends!
I thought about a newer 4door Frontier bed. I just think it’d look too out of place on the older truck though. These Safaris are a few inches wider than the old Hardbody trucks.
Haven’t done much on the fire truck other than cutting the roll bars off of the bed. Picked up a used Smittybilt xl tent and test fitted it the other day. I think it’ll work perfectly.
Thanks, I was actually looking for a cruiser but the prices were crazy expensive and with a 1/4 million more miles. Believe me, we’re a Yota family, other than my old 7.3 power stroke, we all drive Yotas. But this Nissan is built solid!
I was told that in Japan every industrial park is required to have a fire brigade. Evedently thats where these little pumper trucks are used. Also was told letters on the doors translate to either Sinohara-machi shouboudan or Hinohara shouboudan. Shouboudan meaning Fire Brigade and the other...
Thanks. These Safaris are solid trucks from what I can tell. The dealer has a bunch of the three cyl mini trucks and fire trucks also has a handful of Datsun 4door hardbody truck’s but the IFS turned me off of them.
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Here’s where I’m at now. I ordered up some 315/75-16 with new wheels (The factory wheels were split rim death circles). The factory gearing is 4.68:1 which is about perfect for these tires and I had to make some 1.5” longer shackles to clear them. We’ve been driving around some back roads...
I was left with this big empty space under the rear seat where the pump was so I got some sheet metal, some hinges and made me a tool box. For a few more creature comforts I stacked a couple of ammo cans for a console. Cut another ammo can up and made a 3X cup holder and installed the trusty JBL...
I needed to put a witch on because I’m leaving these diffs open. Don’t want to break some hard to get axles. So I mounted this Ramsey 8.5 upside down so I could get to the clutch then bolted the factory bumper to the winch mount. Turned out pretty slick if I say so myself.
So I needed a bed. Just so happens a buddy of mine is retiring his Toyota tube truck after plenty of years on the rocks. Watta you know, it kinda fits.
I was having issues with the carburetor so I swapped it out for a two barrel Weber after doing the vent modification to make them climb. Modified the factory air box to fit and presto. Still looks factory other than the gorilla tape. Haha.
Then it was time to remove the pumper bed and the ballast weight from the front. The very heavy pumper bed. I don’t have a shop or a garage or a fork lift so we had to get crafty. A couple of ratchet straps and hi-lift jack or two, a lot of unbolting and grinding (everything that was bolted was...
The first thing I did was check the fluids, made me a speed cheat sheet and removed the damn buzzer off the back of the speedo that lets you know (very loudly) that your going over 110kph.
So back in January I bought a Japanese fire truck. It’s a 1991 Nissan Safari / Patrol. Kind of unconventional in America but a rust free, straight axled 6cyl 4x4 with less than 3000 miles was hard to passs up. The more I’ve dug into to this rig the more I like it. I figured I’d start a build...
I hear ya there. I found a fab shop that wants a water pump so we’re trying to work out a deal for a new bed. I plan on doing a Spring over swap and hi steer with adding some type of power steering I’m hoping it’s worth it over swapping a low mileage IFS to a straight axle because that was my...
I just bought one of these and stumbled on this old thread. Can’t really find much info on them. Do you still have it? And, How’s that fire truck treating you?
1991 firetruck with 2600 miles. TB42, five speed, rear PTO. Also has leaf spring front and rear with a right hand offset rear axle. As far as I can tell the fire trucks are kind of a mixture between the GQ and the MK. Time to get a plan for removing the pumper and building a rear tray.