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  1. I installed 4 Rockford Fosgate 5"x7" (stock size) speakers in my truck and they rock hard and sound great. I got the 2 pair from Car Toys for like $70 per pair. Since I'm a mutant with 4 arms the rear speakers were a cinch, just pop out the cover screens with a flat head screw driver and remove the 4 screws holding the speaker in, disconnect the wires, which for me was a matter of unplugging them from the stock speakers. For the new speakers however, I did have to cut the plug off and strip the wire back, paying attention to pos and neg, soldered the wires to the new speakers. The hard part *(unless you have 4 arms, or a buddy, and I actually did this by myself and with only my normal old God given two arm setup )* is mounting the new speakers. The old screws aren't long enough for the new speaks so you have to use the little black clip and screw system they give you for mounting hardware. This entails holding the clip in place while putting the screw through the speaker, and screw into the clip while holding the 2 pound speaker above your head. It's a pain in the you know what. Once your done with the rear you can go take a nap. The front speaks removal / install is at once easier and harder than the rear. Read this, it's what got me through my front door speaker install: http://www.ehow.com/how_7230725_speaker-installation-1995-nissan-pathfinder.html Warning: Even though these are a great improvement over the stock speakers, the stock amp plus my 45 watt per channel Kenwood pushes them beyond the nice range (and that is REALLY LOUD) and a few times I have already considered going bigger and better, or maybe just better and same size, I've contemplated putting 6x9s in the rear for a little more power. My point is even though you'll be looking at a 200 watt speaker and you get them installed, you'll crank em up and up and up and then you'll start to feel like your falling just a few feet short of the finish line, ran the whole race and then tripped at the end. I wonder if I should have gotten the $99 a pair Infinity 5x7s instead of the $69 a pair. This being the pain in the "A" that it is just make sure you go big enough to keep you happy when you buy your new speakers.
  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwuNzpzRmw Here is a vid of a guy driving in snow using the Cooper Discoverer AT/3 tires.
  3. It would be either General Grabber AT2 which are pinned for studs and have a nice aggressive tread, or Cooper Discoverer AT/3 which have great reviews for snowy weather driving. I'm about to get a set installed myself but not because of snow, I just want a great all terrain tire and I have experience with a great set of HT/P coopers which have the same tread compound and I'm 10,000 miles from meeting the warranty rating of 65,000 but they still have at least 8 or 9/32nd's of tread left.
  4. HUH?!? -7 degree e e eeees??? How do you do anything in -7 degree weather? Or maybe just normal old Positive 7 degees and you're possibly contemplating doing this job laying in the street at the curb? I'd go broke living there, I'd be trying to have a small storage garage rented where you can pull inside, jeeez man. Good freezing luck!!
  5. okay then, definetly NOT the clutch. At this point systematically you're back at square one with the basics. You already know it's not your intake or exhaust because those are opened up freely; so now it's about fuel, spark and engine management.
  6. Okay, Edicer your pathy problem has just about got me beat, I got one more trick up my sleeve: Riddle me this, does the power loss ONLY occur when your in 4-High? Once the power loss does occur, what happens if you shift into 4 Low or 2 high; do you then get your torque back? I'm all tapped out, if it's not something in the transfer case that is somehow binding up or something, I just don't know. Oh yeah, when the power loss does happen, what does the engine do? Does it bog down and struggle or does it revv up to 5, 6000 rpm? This is weird because your truck is a manual, it's not complicated. The engine runs and there is a direct transfer of power to the ground. If the engine is still trying to make power and just flys away that would have to be a clutch issue. If the engine struggles and coughs and bogs then that would be something up top i.e. fuel, air, spark or exhaust flow, or engine management; ecu, egr. My final answer is either something weird in your transfer case or the clutch is just letting go after being pushed too hard but can still hang on for normal driving. That has to be it. Greg
  7. Manual trans, throw out bearing going bad.
  8. Oh Duh I just re-read your post and now I see you've got a manual, well it's good info for those with auto trannys anyway. 2.5" sounds kinda big to me for the exhaust, have you had strong torque up until recently? I would imagine you have sacrificed a good bit of your back pressure which equates to torque in leiu of more hp. The other thing I'm think of now is your timing advance, which I think is controlled by the ECU, right? That sectore of your computer might be failing. A worn out / slipping clutch would do this, it wouldn't bog out, it won't stress the engine because the clutch is not grabbing hold and sending power so the engine would spin more freely. Occam's Razor Sir.
  9. I have had something (I think) similar happen to me before as well and I was on flat ground, I would push the gas and seem to have no power at all. Well come to find out the transmission wasn't downshifting, so I had been crawling through whatever in perhaps 2nd gear and this had all happened I realized while I had my power switch turned on. I turned it off, turned the truck off, restarted and voila got my pep back, I mean before I did that it was starting in 2nd gear from a cold start, it would start moving very sluggishly as you would expect. I've just recently had my trusted mechanic do a "Flash" on the transmission control module because sometimes it would stay in first for too long before shifting. That did fix it and it seems to run a lot better now and shift earlier, even my mpg seems to have improved a little. Might be something you want to ask about.
  10. I get something like that every now and then but only on more severe jolts, I have begun to assume its the torsion bar "slapping" against the under-carriage.
  11. Wow and I thought I was being a little silly because of a bad stereo reception, you guys flew past me like a rocket in all your efforts to make your antennas work, I'm way too lazy for the work that you guys did. I can still hear the motor running trying to raise an antenna that's not there, I don't care, just let it run. My ride is a 94 by the way but I don't think I've got any other type of glass / window antenna.
  12. So when I bought my pathy a year ago the exterior automatic stereo antenna was snapped off. I didn't really know what to do with it, I'm really no good with car electronics or removing fenders and dash and stuff like that to gain access to the original broken equipment. And so most of a year passes with out any real good stereo reception, until about a month or two ago when I finally decided to do something about it. I had a very vague knowledge that I could have an internal "hidden antenna" purchased and installed at Car toys for like $200 or something like that. I did not feel comfortable spending that kind of money on fixing my antenna, so I shopped around a little and found this one at Frys for around $30: Metra 44-UA20 AM/FM Antenna And you know what? It actually wasn't that bad, once I had figured out how to remove the instrument panel cover and pull out the stereo, I was able to figure my length of cable needed (starting at the top of the windshield) and routed the cable inside the interior molding along the top of the windshield, down the passenger side door molding at the edge of the windshield and up under the dash / glovebox area into the back of the "stereo compartment"; 2nd part of this install was finding a 12v power source for the amplified antenna for which I just soldered the little wire into the back of the cigarette lighter and that did it For some reason my stereo (or the original antenna) had a dual splitter wire adapter where I was able to hook up both the old and the new antennas and plug both into the stereo so I guess I'm running a dual antenna setup. The adhesive that came with the antenna to allow you to attach to the window glass doesn't work at all (atleast in our humid texas heat) so I had to super glue it to the plastic molding and that held. So anyway my stereo sounds great now, I'm really happy with it and glad I was able to do it myself. Greg
  13. Tungsten you're rough man! Gawd it wasn't even my project and I kinda feel like crying 'Do you go past 85 mpg? Then it may come in handy for ya!' lol funny but harsh. I've done stuff like that before, the so called free'r breathing cold air intake, not on the Path but an old honda prelude I used to have, and atleast psychologically it added like 50 hp! Hehe
  14. Sounds like a bad bearing to me. I just went through this a couple days ago and buddy, this is dangerous! Please get that thing fixed ASAP. If that bearing basically disintegrates inside the hub, your wheel could fall off. The guys that fixed the hub bearing on my chevy silverado said the brake calipers and pads were the only thing holding it all together.
  15. Xterra was first thing came into my mind when I started reading your post. The 2001-2003 pathfinders were the last good years, after that (for me anyway) they just fell off. Don't get me started on the newest one, it's horrid. If I were you I'd stay in the gen your in now, just move it up a little bit, fresher lower miles 03, maybe 04 but that's it. Hey man those things have 250 hp engines too.
  16. $3000 is a really REALLY nice WD21, atleast a 95 4x4 se with no more than maybe 160-180,000 miles. I got my 94SE 4x4 auto in good condition power everything with 190,000 miles for 1,800 and that was after I'd talked the guy down from 2,000. For $3000 you could start looking at 96-98 R50s to a degree. I forget, the houston market has no snow or ice so 4x4 suvs are a little lower in resale cost. When I was scouring craigslist month after month I did test drive two different I think 97 R50s that were around like 2,200 to 2,500 but they had issues. R50s (96-00, 01?) look great and have more power but they also use a 1st time in the field unibody construction platform to which the ruggedness and offroad-ability is debatable, where as the 87-95 WD21 used a body on frame = real chassis and had classic lines and styling, it's the original kickass tight little offroad-able 4x4 suv with room for more stuff than a couple of passengers like a jeep. I guess Cherokees were okay and fit into the same class but somehow I think our trucks are better than Jeep cherokees. I certainly prefer mine over one anyway. p.s. Houston also doesn't have the rust problems with our vehicles here because of salt spray! I'd be happy to help any of you get around town here if you search our craigslist ads and ever feel like flying into town to pick up a new rust free ride and drive it back or atleast get it put on a truck. I'm a driver here and I know this town like the back of my hand.
  17. I had this exact same problem once and I've stated on here a couple of times I was able to fix mine with the Gumout treatment at Kwik Kar, the main ingredient being the vacuum line IV drip for about 15 minutes, that service cleared it right up. Up until that point I had narrowed my issue down to the Idle Air Control Valve which is on the underside of the intake plenum on the driver side near the firewall. Before that I had replaced with a stock coil and bought a used but warrantied ignition control module. If you're able to spend the $80 for the service I suggest you give it a shot. My truck's symptoms were dying all of a sudden while slowing to turn or stopping; if it didn't die it would idle rough down around 2 or 300 rpm and black smoke would puff out the exhaust, rpm would fluctuate a little bit up and down like a dying, wheezing pathetic injured animal.
  18. I don't know anything about the temp sensor which is an automatic choke I guess? But what yall are saying about it, it sounds like it fits to me, that would want to enrichen the fuel for a cold start and if it's faulty and staying open or active or whatever it does, it would be continually enriching the fuel because it never gets the "Okay, we're all good down here, you can take a break!" signal
  19. sounds like a ground wire got shook / broke loose somehow. At first I was going to say it was the alternator but now I really don't think so after reading your symptoms, it's weird you still have fog and high beams, which would be really weird if they're somehow on the same circuit since they are kinda diametrically opposed to one another. Can you isolate the circuit/s that run your dash and running lights, they must be connected somehow. Oh, you know what I bet they are on a series circuit and only one of those bulbs went bad but since its no longer working, it also shut all the other ones down as well like Christmas lights. Somehow the offroading inadvertently affected one of your bulbs, maybe rattled it loose and that broke the entire connection. Series circuit, you take out one and they all go down...yep.
  20. The black smoke when you punch it is un burned fuel. When you did that, did it ever actually accelerate or just act as if it had no power. That would involve I guess a vacuum advanced ignition on the distributor (I don't know how our advance timing works, vacuum or centrifugal) but when you punch it, the timing should advance to continue burning the fuel air mixture at the optimal time which would be just a few degrees before top dead center. If the timing advance isn't working then you would have a bunch of fuel dumped in the cylinder and the engine wouldn't know what to do with it, therefore you get black smoke. Anyway regardless of that, given everything that you've done and still no resolution and no codes from the ECU makes me just think that you have a generally bad ECU and it's diagnostic circuits are dead, along with whatever else that is supposed to be controlling the performance of the engine.
  21. If you're running rich, your gas mileage should be really horrible, worse than ours normally is, I mean something like 13 or 14, round there. You're an Old Timer here so I would have to assume you already know the laundry list of numerous issues it could be / need to be checked out and or replaced i.e. Wires, Dizzy cap and rotor, PCV mass airflow sensor, your coil or ignition control module may be failing. I had a similar problem a little while back where sometimes my truck would intermittently start running horribly or die when I came to a stop or slow to turn, and it would run rich and idle rough, black smoke come out the exhaust, but once I gave it a little gas it would pick right up and run fine. Finally got it resolved (after replacing everything I just mentioned) by having my local Kwik Car do a Gumout 3 stage fuel system treatment with a bottle in the tank, an IV drip thing for about 15 minutes (into one of the vacuum lines I think) and throttle body cleanout. After that it's been running great with no more issues. Service cost me like 80 bucks. I never checked my ecu for codes so I don't know if I was getting one or not. Since you're not getting a code, your ecu doesn't know something is wrong somehow..I don't know.
  22. I'm sure this probably doesn't apply but if any of you are near in or around Houston but I checked Craigslist lastnight for Nissan truck and Nissan 4x4 and got quite a few results, some where good deals.
  23. Wow this is great! I feel like I'm surrounded by family and friends already Hey Tmoore I was with the 22nd PSB over by ICORPS and the replacement battalion. We were in those old brown barracks down from watkins parade field. I did my share of running pt up and down Engineers Bluff (backwards and forwards) and had plenty of FTX's and Sergeants time up in those woods. I used to drive out the East gate and go through spanaway, and ashbe on up to the Paradise side of Mt. Rainier. I had two different sports cars at different times ripping through those mountain roads, it was awesome, loved it. Oh my GOD I almost forgot about The House of Teriyaki in Tillicum! Please tell me you went there!? I don't know your time frame but they used to be in a tiny little shack of a building and used to SLAY everybody around lunchtime, and then I guess after 2001 or 2002 they moved into the old Burrito restaurant down the road. Man that was awesome food. Slartibartfast (I know where your name comes from by the way, even before the big time hollywood release, I watched the entire original british series in one setting, and used to have a txt only computer pc game at one time but I only got as far as the bar and the peanuts and crackers and the dolphins, 'Ford lay the towel in front of the dozer, please...' hehe) It's good to know there is a sect of freedom out there in Eastern Washington, I never got over that way, don't know anything about Spokane or Yakima. But boy I sure do remember the Cascade mountains. Seattle was cool, neat place but just too liberal, we have our own version of it here in Tx, we call it Austin and there's nothing there for me. Hey Precise1 thanks for the recommended read, I probably will read that, I liked Stranger in a Strange land and I'm a HUGE Piers Anthony fan, don't really know anything else about Heinlen other than Strange land. It sounds totally relevant and interesting and probably really scary since I'm already inclined in that direction, probably the last thing I need. That solar grid array looks nice and relatively speaking not a bad deal, that looks pretty sweet. I've always instinctively felt that through a system of pulleys and geared transmission or reduction that one could manually create kinetic energy and have that same amount of potential energy created visa vie the gear and pulley system and there-about have it re-directed back into itself to sustain perpetually. As in say, an electric vehicle rolling down the road, as it's rolling it's turning generators driven by geared hubs, which then in turn keep the battery cells charged which then gives energy to the motors to run the vehicle, round and round it goes and never grows old hehe hawhaw ho ho!!! Only problem is multiplying twice or three times the output vs the input so the output is able to create the input. I know of a set of sideways stairs and a cat that ate itself. Some of you know what I mean. I'm sorry, I don't ever get to talk to anyone intelligent in my daily life, I'm a deep thinker trapped in a blue collar construction equipment rental environment, and I'm the only employee so I don't ever get to stretch my brain and let it play except when I'm on here I guess that's why I'm always on a tangent. And I don't Facebook, used to have one, I closed it. I know I'm the king offender of going off topic, please forgive me. Oh yeah I got up close and personal today with a set of Cooper Discoverer ATP tires and I was very impressed, those things look mean as hell, I'm very interested now. If not those, then I may go with a set of Cooper STT's.
  24. Hey My1path I road an XT 350 for a couple of years, got it brand new in 2000 when I was in the army up at Ft. Lewis in WA, Don't a lot of you guys live in the Pacific NW? I really miss that place, my adult home REGION....although I'm conservative and Washington isn't, I still love that place. I'm a Texas boy and so I still remember the very first time I ever laid eyes on Mt. Rainier, I stopped dead in my tracks and stared in awe. I'd like to have a sweet power generating live off the grid house too but the problem is that you can't keep it a secret and someone else is going to want it, and then someone after that if you kill the first one. Oh and then the govt get's pissed at you for not needing them! They get mad when you get all independent and go freely off the grid. This is a dream for millionaires. If only I had the cash...the secret to true survival is being completely invisible where no one else can say, "Hey whats that really sweet gig that guy has going on over there that he worked hard for? Huh? He doesn't deserve that! Us lazy robber types should be in there!" For all you with Netflix, there is a Twilight Zone (original, beautiful black and white) episode that captured the essensce of this wonderfully, Season 3 episode 3 "The Shelter"
  25. Wow Precise 1, you're waay ahead of me man. You covered a lot of ground, all I can really say is, Nice on all accounts.
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