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No worries. Its a common problem and with a solid ground on the head unit as well as the antenna you shouldn't have any issues. Another mistake is having too much cable. It should he a straight shot from the head unit to the antenna with no coils of excess wire. The coils or bound wire acts as a mag pickup for interference.

Donor truck and our 92 Pathy.

The second gen r50 had one, theres a local around here that I see every few weeks with it. It's a little different though, the tubing for the 2nd gen isn't black or round, It's more of a rounded rectangle tubing, and I've only seen it in grey. Also, if I recall correctly, the 2nd gen carrier doesn't have a rounded end on the driver side, rather it's cut flat (don't quote me but for some reason I think I remember that) I think the 2nd gen doesn't have the same latch lever as the 1st (also don't quote me, but when I opened one up a year or so back I think I remember it being a little different)

New to the forum. My son and I have a 1992 Nissan pathfinder 4x4. We lifted it with a 2", suspension lift, put 31 all terrains on it and painted it flat black. We are currently swapping the automatic transmission with a manual.

It's still available from their site: https://view.publitas.com/arb-4x4-accessories-1/old-man-emu-international-application-catalogue-edition-36/page/1

They're definitely not fun to compress. I've done it twice with rental compressors, and dread the thought of doing it again.

@TowndawgR50, that's some really useful information, thanks! I've always had my CB setups running either through an adapter plugged into a cig lighter or tapped into the wiring behind it. I'm definitely going to be running dedicated wires for this when the weather warms up in a few months. Didn't realize the interference was from some shared circuitry, I had windshield wiper interference real bad on the QX4; not so much with my 4Runner now, but still some.

I bought a wd21 partly for the price (hard to beat $900, even with a few problems) and partly because of the lack of rust and body damage. But mostly I didn't want a newer car or something that's too common. I was actually looking at an even more rare vehicle (daihatsu rocky anyone?) but it didn't work out and I didn't want to have driven to Arizona for nothing. The 2000 Mitsubishi montero sport I had before was crap, IMHO, so I don't like all Japanese cars, but I have become a fan of Nissan since I got a pathy. My dad is a hardcore Mopar man. He always had mid 80s Ramchargers when I was growing up, and now he has a chrysler 300m and a '76 plymouth trailduster (!!!). He never liked foreign cars until I got my pathfinder, but my wd21 has him convinced. He gets frustrated helping me with the 33 swap, since everything is packed in pretty tight, but I explained that in order to get full blown 4x4 in such a small platform they had to make hard decisions like making us take out the front diff to get the oil pan off. I got rear ended a while back and it totally destroyed the new "SUV" that hit me, and I only had a couple dents, a smashed tail light, and a bent tail pipe. The insurance company, in their infinite wisdom, decided to repair that POS because it's "worth more" and totaled my truck because they don't think the whole vehicle is worth the price of a paint job. I told them flat out they could have my Pathfinder over my dead body and they cut me a check for $5000 and said I'd have to retitle it as a "salvage vehicle". They also said that there was "nothing special" about the WD21 and they "aren't collectable". I went off on that lady, though I kept my language clean. I told her that I was a member of a group of collectors (you guys) and if it was nothing special then why did it hold up so well to a fancy new car that weighs like half again as much. Bottom line: I bought it because I could afford it and it had the 4x4 I needed, living in rural Arkansas, and I kept it because it's awesome. If I somehow became rich I'd still keep it. I plan on driving that truck (or another wd21 if anything serious happens to it) for the rest of my life. Plus I like not having a Ford, Chevy, or Jeep which is all people around here seem to buy. My ex had a grand Cherokee and I hated it.