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heres my new 1994 its WAY faster than my 95 with the motor issues. is this more normal?

went through a thick mudhole today. like cake batter. on the way down the hill the motor got real hot, not overheated too bad, but certainly hot. sprayed out the radiator to get the mud out, runs cool now, BUT the fan is locked up, like, on all the time. turn the motor off and you cant turn the fan. did mud get in there? how do I fix it?

they tested the battery at the same time, its good. they tested the alt at the battery and say its not putting anything out.

brought it home after a day of duning. put it on the charger and the battery is half dead. GRRRRRRRRR! last ditch effort here, how do I just manually wire the alternator? I did one in my racevan (long story) we ran a wire to the battery, one to a ground and another to a switch on the dash to turn it on and off. that was a 350 small block though. can I do that to this one?

got the new alternator in. hopefully it works. I dont know how to test it with a multimeter at the battery apparently, as I am still only getting like 13.3 volts running or not. putting it in was easier, my 9 yr old son helped, and he has skinnier arms for getting that top bolt on the backside. PAIN IN THE @SS!!

got the alternator out. big wire covered with a boot bolted on the back, a plug, and a small ground wire, BUT I also noticed that theres a flat ground wire dangling from the frame rail right there that could reach the alternator, but was not attached anywhere. where does this go? took the alt to the parts house for bench testing and its spins up just fine, but when electrical load is applied it generated so much drag it blew the breaker on the machine, twice! so i'm getting a new alternator, free! lemme know about that ground strap though. if its supposed to be grounded to the alt or what. thanks in advance!

actually thats where we started. My grandpa taught me that a long time ago with my nissan 200sx which had 8 spark plugs. he was showing me how, nothing was changing, then he was like, "OH! theres 2 plugs per cylinder!" pulled both plugs, one cylinder at a time and the furthest one made no change at all. turned out to be a bad injector. easy fix! the pathfinder however changes drastically when each plug is pulled. so its an across the board sputter that is not isolated to only one cylinder.

cleaned the MAF sensor. totally gooped over any visible surface cracks on the air intake. gooped the metal fittings that go into the air intake. no whistle, still runs rough.

took it to the parts house. had it tested in the truck. they say the alt is bad. showed the paperwork. its a lifetime warranty part. so now I gotta pull it and have them bench test it to determine if its the alt or the wiring. any tips or tricks in removing the alternator?

yeah I have the papers on it

turns out parts guy was mistaken. he does NOT have an air intake tube "on the shelf" he suggested looking in the junkyards. lol, yeah, like those arent cracked too. looks like I'll be spending the night alone, just me, an intake tube and a bunch of Goop adhesive, trying to seal any visible cracks.

yeah, its not the dome light. pretty sure of that there ARE a whole mess of wires we cut back in the hind end. I should check those and tape them all up. If I charge the battery overnight till its topped off I can run all day on the dunes no problem, but only about 30 mins of running headlights and its dead! alternator is only a year old. as is the battery. seems like the last owners were battling the same problem perhaps? I noticed if I leave the battery connected it drains overnight just sitting in the driveway. it did that BEFORE we cut the roof off. there doesnt seem to be anything easy about this truck. lol!

battery dies all the time. volt meter at the battery says 13.3 while running. (shouldnt it be around 14.4?) suggestions?

oh, it's definitely a project. we got it as a wreck at a dealership for $395. though it doesnt have a salvage title, it was sold to us for parts or salvage cause the thing was not at all street legal when they sold it to us, and dealerships arent allowed to sell vehicles like this. it's been a work in progress finding whats wrong with the motor. we wrench on it a lil here and there. it still runs and drives and we have fun with it. but theres some hills out there we really want to go up, and we cant. probably couldnt even if they were paved! (previous post) I mentioned earlier that I twisted the intake tube and it made the whistling go away. well, it's back! grrrrr. so I looked closely and theres tiny cracks, but light doesnt go through. its a $20 part, screw it. I'm gonna get a new one and see what happens!

well I have a smoke machine used for halloween, you now, dance club style. dont think that will work though. lol