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Dry side of Washington state? Blasphemy! everybody in any other part of the nation knows that it rains 24/7/365 everywhere in the Pacific Northwest and there is no sun, ever... just ask them! Okay so on a serious note, I've never been there myself but one day I'll have to stop by. But this thread does remind me of my early childhood living in Hoquiam, WA, very near to a sawmill with train service. The regular engineer who ran in and out of that on a daily basis during the summer and some weekends used to stop and pick up all the neighborhood kids and give us a ride for five blocks, to the edge of our neighborhood, and drop us off and we'd all walk back home happy as can be. It may have only been five blocks but it was freaking awesome!

Hoquiam, Gray’s Harbor is literally the rainiest area of WA outside of the Hoh perhaps. Reminds me of when I lived in PDX & mentioned Seattle & they would say @Oh, I could never live there, it rains too much!”. Sadly, by comparison, they were right!

This one is long overdue... Here it goes... I decided last winter to buy what was needed to eliminate the strut top-out I was experiencing almost daily. The road from my house to my work are not in good shape and I wanted to so something about it before my strut disintegrate ! I tried last saturday to take a few pictures to better illustrate how I have decided to do it. There is other ways, but I like mine for different reasons. 1) I used adjustable clevis so I can move the adjustment of the strap if I need it or if I change the setup or suspension. Since At the time of doing this I knew I was going to add a spacer later in the year, I knew It would be a piece of cake to do so. If you have a fixed setup, then you need to either re-weld or change your straps... 2) I welded a plate on the inner fender of the pathy cause I feared the metal sheet of the pathy was not going to be strong enough for the long run if I just welded a small surface mount on it... So I welded a plate, then welded the surface mount on the plate, giving more strength and area to the mount. I bought my stuff at Pacific Custom ( http://www.pacificcustoms.com ) Great service and fast delivery, no mistakes...worth mentioning these days.. The parts I used are the following : 1) CHROME STEEL ADJUSTABLE CLEVIS FOR LIMITING STRAPS - MADE IN CHINA Part Number: AC510050C Price: $35.00 2)WELD ON FORGED MOUNT FOR LIMITING STRAP CLEVIS Part Number: AC510050CV Price: $10.00 3) BEARD 13 INCH LONG 2 PLY BLACK SUSPENSION LIMITING STRAP WITH 1/2 BOLT HOLES - MADE IN USA Part Number: RA17113 Price: $24.00 In my setup, a 13Inch strap was limit a bit and that's why you see the adjuster all the way to the minimum. But since I will be adding a spacer this winter, It will go down 1 inch and will be perfect. Be advised that straps do stretch a bit. I would recommend a 12inch for a regular pathy lifted with ac springs but no spacers. The bottom was made from a welded piece of steel that was bent a bit in order to have a direct line with the upper mount so that it pulls in straight line. Here's a few pictures... If you have questions, don't hesitate. ha yes, almost forgot... gone is the bang of top out.. now I don't hear anything. General view: Upper mount: Lower mount: Hopefully this will help clear the many questions you guys may have about this mod. S.

I used your post to order mine, prices are a bit different now but not much and the straps are 4ply now not 2. Looking forward to getting them welded on so I can stop sweating so much on the trail.

Jump forward several years and I was living in another city in another state and obviously with a new group of friends. Freight trains used to pass through the city and very low speeds. Most of these trains were very long and usually had a handful or more of empty box cars on them, with the doors open. We would hop in them, along with out bikes for a quick and easy, albeit dangerous way to get across town. Really surprised no one ever got seriously hurt or killed Although at least one bike tire & wheel were not so lucky One day I remember two of us we were going to go to another friends who lived about 2 miles south of town. Luckily there was a train passing through town, headed south! What luck we thought! So we hopped it, with the intent of getting off about a mile later, before it was at a speed to fast to jump from as it accelerated into farm lands. We were bs'ing and just screwing around and before we knew it that jump point was long gone and the train was hauling-***!!! When it finally started slowing again, we jumped off and eventually figured out that we were in the next heavily populated city... about 50 or so miles south of home! Having no way to get back, we had no choice but to call one of our moms. A tense couple rounds of Rock Paper Scissors resulted in a "win" for me, so Travis reluctantly placed a collect call to his house. Lucky for us his mom was not home but her boyfriend was. He drove down and picked us up and in exchange (aka blackmail) for not telling our moms, we had to do a bunch of crap for him for the rest of the summer. Apparently he even told Travis's mom that the collect call on the bill was from his brother... as far as I know, neither of our moms ever found out what we really did that day! So did we learn from that? Come on seriously? We were in 5th grade and continued doing it through middle school too!

Yeah most of the kids in the neighborhood were in first grade or so at that time and we all loved it, it was a blast. :aok:

Cheers !

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Hello, Everyone! Honestly, I don't have a Pathfinder (at least not yet)...as explained in my profile, I have a Nissan 1995 XE 4x4 Pickup Truck (hey, it's the closest thing to a Pathfinder without actually being one)...I'm here because I bought this truck about a month ago and it needs a lot of work, and you guys and gals being the "go to" folks on Pathfinders will be a lot of help as these vehicles share many of the same parts and repair techniques...so, thanks in advance to any and all who help! :)