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Thanks barthel. Pulled out my Chilton and it does look like a PITA. I got the tilt spool out of a bobcat s220 yesterday so I think I can pull off the pressure line install. Happy to know I can get it for less than a third Nissan's gouge.

The hose from the pump to the steering rack is leaking from where the rubber goes into the fitting where it changes to metal pipe going to the steering rack. I'm being quoted over two hundred dollars for part to replace. What all am I getting for that. From the banjo fitting on the pump to where? Thanks

230,000 miles earlier this week on my 91 SE(The best year I think). Odometer has only registered about 96.5 miles for every 100 traveled so I think it may have another 10000 unregistered on it. Rebuilt transmission under secret warranty around 12,000 in '92. Exhaust manifold didn't start ticking till 180,000 so no help from Nissan. Made the mistake of letting Midas work on it and they broke half the studs and left them that way(May have to take them to court). Recently got that fixed(for half the price Midas charged to break it and I'm seeing the muffler they'd installed didn't use the factory hangers so the cat hanger is broken and the cat rides on the crossmember and puts stress clear to the manifolds, probably caused the first stud breakage) and redline MT90 in tranny. Original clutch. Timing belt and pump every 80,000. Four or five mufflers and four sets of tires. Can't remember how many brake redos, but love my four wheel discs. Have saved me many times. Never wrecked (knocking on wood chair)although a coworker caught the driver's door with a trailer and bent it clear forward. It still closed and latched!!! Was a $1700 insurance repair. Needs rubber now, timing belt in another 10,000. Found a power steering leak today, hope it wasn't because the inside fender guards are missing and currently awaiting me to replace them(as in thrown rock damage). I need to remember the brake lines are exposed and get this done!! Was it Slick who had some patterns? This vehicle was absolutely trouble free for many years, on a par with the 1985 Camry we had(I think we'd still have it if I hadn't sheared off a power pole with it). I'm hopeful this pathy will be in my estate I like it so much, even after sixteen years. I had no trouble towing a diesel air compressor around town with it today!

I've got a one inch crack in the left rear corner of the indentation in the top of the dash above the glove box. Has been garaged but in sun during day. Aren't there vinyl repairs available we could use?

Scratch that idea , how much tilt are we talking to get five and a half quarts in? Sounds like a lot less work than pulling up the carpet.

I would like to put an el pipe fitting in the fill hole with plug on top. It would raise the fill height the required inch. Does anyone know the size and pitch of the threads of the fill plug? I fear having someone pull the plug and draining out the 1.5L(at ten bucks a liter). Thanks for any thoughts on the practicality of doing this too.

They are the stock adjustable shocks. As I said they worked for a while after installation.

Does anyone know if any of the available side step rails are a good match for the originals that are rotting off my 91se4x4? Mounting points matched and all. Everything I've found looks to mount at ends and use flimsy looking shackles and bolts around frame. Thanks

Could someone elaborate on the electric shocks. I replaced mine with very reasonably priced Nissan stock shocks and they worked but now don't. What do I look for to fix. If they aren't working are they in the soft mode or sport? I want the stiffer ride of the sport setting. I'd like to keep it working as stock, but not a big deal. Thanks

Thanks all. I'm happy to know there's an alternative to dealer only purchase of lsd oil! I wish the GL-4 tranny gear oil were more readily available. After searching high and low in brick and mortar stores I was happy to pay a couple dollars extra to order some shipped off the internet. I'm so happy with my redone studs :Magic: , the old girl is getting a little more tlc now than when she was bellering and gasing me with exhaust. Where I thought we might be about to part, she'll now get new rubber, headers and new speakers sometime this year. Repacked front bearings first. Timing belt in about 10000m. Hmmm, a new pathy is $40000, a new one's $40000, and they ain't nothing like the 91. I can pay for all of that with less than two months of new car payments. Tags and insurance only $200 a year. I know I'll keep her! I just wish I hadn't rolled the 89 pickup. They were the perfect pair. Just about everything interchangeable. It's only 14F out but 43F in our garage. If you guys can do it, I guess I should suck it up and change the oil at least, and torque the four bolts at front, and grease the tire carrier hinges, and.........

There's a thread going http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=9792 which points to a relay in the drivers rear panel to repair or replace.

What do you mean 'after', it's 13 freaking degrees out and dropping! I believe it's imperative you use genuine nissan lsd oil in the lsd diff. I had a shop put regular gear oil in and it don't like it.

I'm sorry for your troubles, but had a happy resolution to my exhaust woes this week. Midas had trashed more than half my exhaust studs and left them that way. I only recently found a shop which repaired the damage for half what Midas charged to muck it up. I carried in the studs and gaskets and paid them $335. I'd been quoted a thousand a side so am very happy with my stock quiet pathy. I hope it lasts and I hope to see your problem fixed, as I've considered Thorleys. Now a letter to Midas corporate, and then to small claims court?

Got it.

Penzoil Synthetic GL-4 75W90 Sold in 1 Litre Bottles Penzoil Part # 56076 Parts store ought to able to order that. I found a Bravo brand GL 4 at Car Quest. Synthetic sounds like a good idea though. P Just a scratch on top of my head(and lots of bruises). Solid machine probably saved my life. Fortunately only me, the 10 foot deep ditch and the culvert lip in the ditch that sent me flipping and rolling. Landed on it's wheels and after a few minutes(had'nt really looked at outside) I tried to start it. Probably a good thing it didn't even turn a light on! Very lucky in many other ways after all was said and done. Wife picked me up from the crash site and I prevailed at license hearing. My employer got more from insurance than he'd paid me for the truck. My wife got a newish car and I get to drive the 91 Pathfinder. All's well that ends well I guess!

That explains the whine that put me to sleep in this 89 SE pickup. I'm getting some Redline MT90 tomorrow.

When my pathfinder was new we drove out of a 17" snow and I pulled out of 4H as I'd read the visor about driving on hard pavement. Black ice and crosswind sent us into ditch full of snow and couldn't grab 4H before we were stuck. Never again, if there's a chance of a slick spot it's in 4 wheel drive. Four days straight after the recent 8" snow. Another no-no is using 4 wheel drive when you have the smaller spare on a wheel. Plays hell with gear ratios.

So what will go in my 91 SE 4x4's front doors? Nissan head unit ET-4100 to be replaced, and there's an amp under it to go? Another amp in back? Pulled out the huge old cargo space wasters(they sounded good back when!) what will go in the side panels back there? I see there is a lot of wiring harness and stuff to move around and some mod, a shop has said 5 1/2' about all that would fit in the cutouts right over wheel wells. Would like components in front door. Thanks for any info.

215,000 miles on my 91. At least 285,000 ahead!

100 ton. No problem.

Midnight Riviera Blue Pearl, my baby!