Hey Vike!

 

The diffrence in the doors is a mid-year change for the 66 Patrol. The two piece door is found on early production 66's and the one piece on late production 66's. The early door is much cooler in many peoples opinion because you can roll around with a half door. Something to note is the two diffrent doors are not interchangeable really as the jam is diffrent, although I have a 67 that had early doors put on it. A 66 with full one piece doors is rare, before I thought it was extremly rare but now more are turning up. Regardless there can't be to many 66 Patrols rolling around with one-piece doors. The eye hook is for a safty strap that ran from the hook to a latch mounted on the front seat frame. This was for when the doors were off the vehicle. Take a look here for a picture of the rear latch;

 

http://groups.msn.com/NissanPatrolClubAlbuquerque/miscphotos.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=1494 

 

Also in the same folder, Misc Photos is two more pictures of the safty strap. I think all true s/t L-60 Patrols pre-67 had this feature but I am not sure on this. The eye hook can be found on h/t or s/t up to 68-69 but very few have the rear latch meaning the actual strap was a rare item. Since Nissan labeled all Patrols as "L" with no "K" tag untill 69 that I know of...this makes it hard to tell if your Patrol is a h/t or a s/t orginally. Unless you look at the rear tub in the corner, there will be two holes in the steel for the s/t frame, this means that the Patrol is a true L-60. Take at look at Grants KL-60 Patrol for good shot of a h/t lacking the holes and then look at my 64 s/t for the location of these holes....this is a fool proof way of telling a s/t from a h/t. The master cylinders sounds like you have one original, probily late production (white resivor one) and possibly an aftermarket MC. The original 1966 stock MC was a plastic resivor that is round with push on cap. The later model, post-67 resivor is white and square with a diffrent cap. The late moedel MC can still be bought from Nissan as I got two recently.

 

Well...hope that helps!

 

Ian

 

Oh yea...much of my info on these topics is thanks to several club members including Grant, Keith and Jeff

hello,

my name is cassandra, and i am in need of an early model 66 driver side door, if you are willing to sell let me know. thanks cass