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Replaced my fan clutch this week and had some fun off-roading. She wasn’t doing too bad for stock. The mud blends right in Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Some action shots I received from my neighbor when we had our snow storm back in January Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

So I had to so a double take when I saw this album cover and it is definitely a pathfinder. Probably got a little too excited when I noticed this but thought it was sweet.

2 years now restoring the 97 Q fixer upper and I couldn't be more happier. I joined NPORA Jan 2016 and what I know now as opposed to what I knew then is as different as night to day. When I came into the world of my 1st R50 a 98 Pathfinder I had no clue that I would end up finding my passion. I played music for 15 years heard my songs on the radio, idolized John Lennon and played every bar from Nashville across the Cumberland plateau. Met a lot of great people had a ton of crazy nights experiencing the good bad and the ugly. But the feeling I get from working on my R50 and enjoying every minute of it, playing rockin roll didn't compare. Thank you Nissan for building one hell of an automobile and thanks to everyone of you all that helped me out along the way. Im not done yet. Hopefully i can get this beast a paint job sooooon. #r50obsessed #97jlr50 #infinitinorthamerica Sent from my SM-S737TL using Tapatalk

So the years long project that will never end and that escalates at every turn does it again. I hope the Nissan marketing people who decided not to prewire for a 7 pin plug and electric brake controllers on a vehicle that can tow 3,500-5,000, and the engineers who designed them making it so difficult and time consuming to install and remove components without breaking them - rot in the hottest part of hell for all eternity. Alternatively I have great sympathy for the factory workers that build them. I can't understand how Nissan's don't cost $200,000 just from labor rates building them. If I was going to install this for someone else, I'd charge several thousand dollars. And if someone did it for a reasonable rate, they would have had to do a horrible hack job. Among other frustrations that had already raised my blood pressure past the explosive point - I've spent 90 minutes trying to reinstall the drivers wheel liner and I can't get it to go in. If I had any idea how hard this would be, I would have bought a used Xterra that had the 7-pin prewiring. Actually I'd rather not buy a Nissan ever again. But they are very affordable used trucks compared to Toyota. Just had to vent. I was getting to the point i needed to go to the hospital for chest pains.

You have a dead short to ground in your oil pressure circuit. Most likely in the sending unit. Unplug the wire from the sensor, and if the gauge drips back to zero, then the problem is the sender. If not, then you will have to check the wire for a short to ground.

While I can't attest to brake controllers, I will say this much about a Nissan vs. Toyota. One of my project vehicles since Dec has been a 91 FJ80 Land Cruiser. At first, I was stoked...plans to redo the suspension, do the rear main seal, re-install A/C, and just some other items along the way. Fast forward, and I hate the truck. I hate Toyota for making the truck. Everything on the truck is in the way of some other item, despite "tons" of working space, things are damn near impossible to remove, and the most trivial items end up taking hours. I can't stress enough how much working space appears to exist on the truck, yet it's wasted space. This truck was made specifically to be dealer-only serviced. I'll take wrenching the Pathfinder over this truck any day, and you'd think an older truck would have been far more basic to wrench.

One of several great lift-info-packed threads:

There is actually a lot of information about this topic here on the forum, just gotta poke around a bit. The long and short of it is, you're not gonna get more lift than that without an SFD, and even that is kind of pushing it depending on how you set it up; if you do that much lift with spacers expect CV damage if you actually go offroading. Since these vehicles are unibody, body lift is not an option. The "Land Rover Lift Springs" thread in this subforum is a great resource for information about an excellent lift option combos.

would you mind posting pictures of what you've cut?

This is the stock ride height diagram for the 2002 from the FSM, maybe this can help: