Dieselboy

Been a while searching for a Terrano, but looks like I've finally found one out on Vancouver Island - 1992 TD27T automatic transmission, 170,000km for CDN$5800 Been talking to the dealer who's selling it as its a long way to drive from Alberta out to the Wet Coast just to go look at a truck on the off chance! Seems that for a rig that age she's really clean of rust and runs smoothly. Only concern is that according to the sales guy's report it idles a bit rough. Knowing zip about diesel engines (hopefully that's going to change soon!) I wonder if this is a serious issue. What is the main cause of rough idling on this motors? Will a good tune up likely sort this out? Should I get them to do it or buy the truck and drive it back to Alberta and get it done here? Any advice would be very useful before I take a road trip to British Columbia. Thanks guys - Mark F (aka Dieselboy)

Greetings guys OK, new to the forum, not from OZ or NZ, a Brit living in Canada for heaven's sake. But . . . I thought I'd say "hi" as I may be picking your brains fairly soon. Getting a 1994 or 1995 diesel Terrano imported from Japan. Not very common rigs in Canada and non at all in the US. I'm familiar with the petrol Pathfinders but the diesel powerplant is going to be new to me. Should be a steep but fun learning curve! Cheers Mark

There's quite a few Japanese diesel Terranos being imported into Canada right now. Only need to be 15 years old to enter Canada, but 25 yrs for the US. You may want to look for an engine in a wreckers yard in Canada or contact one of the companies that import vehicles and parts. Import restrictions shouldn't apply to the powerplant as its primarily to limit right hand drive vehicles. I may be wrong though

Yes, been checking out some of the posts from down under. From what I can make out though, its pretty much mostly the power plant that differs. Will be a steep learning curve for sure though! Shame they're not legal south of the 49th parallel. Guess its the 25yr old limit on importing vehicles into the US. 15 years here in Canada, but the government keeps talking about introducing a 25 year limit here too . . . because of "safety". Yeah, as if a 25 year old RHD truck was safer than a 15 year old RHD truck!? More like protectionism.

Thanks for the welcome guys. Still waiting for to close the deal on the Terrano, but thought I'd start doing my homework now. My old Pathy was a good beast and saw me through some pretty tough wheeling in the Rocky Mountain foothills here in Alberta. 3" SL, rear sway bar discos, 31x10.5R15s on Lego Wheels. But fixing her up is one of those effort versus time versus money issues, you either have one or the other, and frequently neither! Having learned what I have from that truck though I can transfer lots of the mods over to the new rig, plus build it up to the expedition truck that I want. Still debating rim/tire size/back space issues with a 3+3 lift (got an AC 3" body lift kit sat in my garage that was meant to go on my last truck before it died). Seems there's a lot of debate here but concrete answers are hard to find. Any suggestion would be more than welcome!

Hi there. Planning a 1994 diesel R3M Terrano project so thought NPORA would be the ideal place to get some answers to some questions that I have! I used to have a 1994 SE V6 Pathy, but wheeled her too hard, and what with the frame rot, bust steering, bent suspension, engine in need of a rebuild etc etc etc, its an easier and more cost effective job to use it as a parts truck and start again from the beginning. So now I'm going to build a Terrano. Not sure why, lol, but I fancy the same truck as a diesel. Lots of questions, but I'm sure you guys can help. Cheers Dieselboy