TD27T into US spec pathfinder.

[robins94]

Ive got a 1992 imported rhd Terrano with the td27t with 220,000km and new 5 speed manual with maybe 5000km, the body and frame is pretty rotten. I picked up a high mileage 95 pathfinder that spent most of its life in colorado. its mostly rust free but has 430,000km on the original vg30, id like to swap the TD27T motor and manual trans into my us spec 95 pathfinder. Is there any TD27T swapped pathfinders on here ? My concerns are around fitment with turbo and downpipe going from rhd to lhd, what would need replaced with the fuel system, i assume i could swap the ignition switch to accommodate the glow plugs or run a manual timed switch, would i need to swap the axles over to for gear ratio?

[Slartibartfast]

I haven't seen him around in a while, but Ekim Naelcm on the NPORA FB page did a TD swap. He would be the guy to track down with questions, or see if Farcebook lets you dig up his old posts about the swap.

 

The gear ratio should be marked on the tag in the engine bay. US trucks are HG43 or HG46, for 4.3 or 4.6 ratio diffs. Hopefully the Terrano is marked similarly. If the '95 is auto, it's more than likely HG46. Manual trucks usually got HG43. If you plan to run stock-size tires, and the ratios are wrong, that'll throw off your speedo. But if you plan to run larger tires, then the deeper gears would be an upgrade. 

 

I have a service manual for the TD27, but sadly not the full manual for the rest of the truck, so I don't have a schematic for the glow plug wiring. However, the '87 Pathy/Hardbody manual that I do have shows an SD25 diesel engine, which has an automatic "quick-glow" system wired from what looks like the same ignition switch as the gasser. If you want I can take a few pictures of the relevant pages in the manual. That said, I suspect you'd be better off reverse-engineering it from the donor (or just swapping over the harness and everything attached to it!) than making assumptions based on service info for an earlier engine from a different family.

 

Good luck, and let us know how it goes!