Nissan forklift w/SD

[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.

[Billysgoat]

Pallet Jack=

Forklift=

[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.

[Knucklehead]

Dig that ultra low ram. Better be sure IT lifts more than 8".

[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.

[philip]

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.

[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.

[philip]

SNIP good compression but way too much blow by past the rings so its half torn apart in his garage.

Pistons in SD fours

[asavage]

An awful lot of forklifts get taken apart and never put back together.

[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.

[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.

[Knucklehead]

I've never done a rebuild that smoked like that.

[philip]

If I didn't have you guys I think my p/u would be the same way.