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Nissan forklift w/SD

Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:02 pm
by asavage
Ran across this one on eBay just now, doing research on some local used forklifts -- we may buy one for casual safe moving within our warehouse, I'm getting by with a pallet jack for now.

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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:07 pm
by Billysgoat
Pallet Jack= :(

Forklift= :D

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:58 pm
by asavage
Forklifts have downsides, too. I can get the pallet jack in places in our warehouse the forklift will not be able to go, no way. But the pallet jack only lifts about 8" max. Trade-offs.

Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:37 pm
by Knucklehead
Dig that ultra low ram. Better be sure IT lifts more than 8".

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:16 am
by asavage
I'm not looking to buy that forklift, I have a local supply but was trying to get more info on Nissan forktrucks, when I ran across the one above.

We wouldn't go diesel: we wouldn't run it long enough to warm up, ever, and it would run indoors exclusively.

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:22 am
by philip
asavage wrote:SNIP- We wouldn't go diesel: we wouldn't run it long enough to warm up, ever, and it would run indoors exclusively.
For all the warehouses I picked up and delievered from/to while driving OTR, I cannot recall a single indoor facility with a diesel forklift. Propane primarily and many electric slip-sheet machines all over the place. Now outdoors, I've seen diesel forks but they were also much larger and fitted with pneumatic tires (car junk yards mostly).

That little Nissan is a bit of an orphan.

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:46 pm
by welfarewarrior
my neighbor just got a an older diesel fork. he thinks its an 86, its got the sd25 in it and it needs a complete overhaul. good compression but way too much blow by past the rings so its half torn apart in his garage. its a 7 1/2 thousand lb with a 4 thou lift, pnematic tires no side shift and looks beat up on the outside but decent on the inside.

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:36 pm
by philip
welfarewarrior wrote:SNIP good compression but way too much blow by past the rings so its half torn apart in his garage.
Pistons in SD fours

Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:21 pm
by asavage
An awful lot of forklifts get taken apart and never put back together.

Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:23 pm
by Knucklehead
That's because the owners don't have friends to cheer them on. If I didn't have you guys I think my p/u would be the same way.

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:13 pm
by welfarewarrior
well my neighbor just got it running and is driving up and down our cul-de-sac as we speak trying to work out all the bugs. the clutch had rusted to the flywheel so even thought he pressure plate moved the clutch disc didnt .
the hydralics seem to in good working order now that the fluids have been changed and the tranny shifts good. the clutch problem has been fixed but slips abit might be due to all the rust granuals. the engine smokes pretty bad when accelerating or in the higher rpm band (i dont mean alittle smoke i mean it blocks out the sun till it dissapates) but since its only has about an hour of break in since he did the rings and valves that is to be expected.

when he first fired it up the neighborhood was shroud in darkness. but other than that everything seems fine, it starts and runs rough when cold (one bad glow plug) but once warm runs fine. still more tinkering to do but thats the story so far.

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:07 pm
by Knucklehead
I've never done a rebuild that smoked like that.

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:51 pm
by philip
Knucklehead wrote: If I didn't have you guys I think my p/u would be the same way.
:)