94TroutKiller

Gents, I changed the bushings, unfortunately I could not get my hands on good polyurathane ones. It did fix the wobble issue though, I just hope they don't crap out too soon. thanks!

I just rotated the tires and torqed them just last week, so that can be checked off the list. I can feel the vehicle wobble the most when shifting gears while driving down the road. The rear end feels like it torques towards the passenger side during the shift. Like you mentioned, I don't doubt that since it is a 94 those bushing are bad, so in saying that, the same would apply to the front and rear coil springs.

Hello, I noticed that while driving my 94 Pathy (5 speed) especially while doing anything above 40 mph, you can feel the rear end wobble towards the right. I inspected the rear upper and lower control arms, but they seem to be fine. Then again I will not be 100 percent sure until they are removed and fully inspected. Has anyone else had this issue? I did perform a search but only found this occured on 96 models (the death wobble) and above. 94TroutKiller

Gents, Well first and foremost I want to thank all of you who provided helpful advise on how to bring my 94 back to life. I know it took me a while but due to work I did not have much time these past 3 weeks. I managed to take a 4 day weekend and worked on my pathfinder. With all the info from you and with all the new parts it runs great, it's now ready to go back and do some fishing! Thanks again!!! 94TroutKiller

devonianwalk, I am just as lucky as you in this department. My cousin owns a shop and I should be able to get a compression tool from him with no problem. If he can borrow my fishing gear, I am positive I can borrow a tool...

Great info...compression test, valve cover gaskets and cam seals along with the t-stat will added to the to-do list. Sounds like I am in for a fun weekend! And knowing that UNCCPATHFINDER only spent around 2.5 to 3 benjis makes me feel that much better. It sure beats having to dish out a crazy amount of cash for a new engine! Thanks again to all!!

Thanks for the quick responses! On that note, I will be ordering the water pump, timing belt and tension pulley. This way I can have some piece of mind that these parts have been replaced by me and I won't have this issue for another 60k and avoid any serious engine damage. Hopefully I should have this done by the end of the week during my days off. Thanks again for all help, A

Hello, I am newbie to the site and I would like to start things off by saying thank you to all who have posted some very detailed info on this site which has helped me out quite a bit with my 94 Pathy XE. While I was driving home last night the engine just died on me and it would not start back up. My Pathy has 186,000 miles on it and was still running fairly well. I have already replaced the plugs, wires, cap and rotor. It has a new fuel and air filter and I replaced all the vacuum hoses. I have also removed the cat and installed a Flowmaster 40 series muffler because since it still had the original equipment and both were clogged. I have cleaned the MAF and installed a ground wire to the frame as well. I am not sure if the pathfinder still has the original timing belt or it has been replaced. Here is the kicker, I was attempting to set my timing and noticed the timing marks on the crank shaft pulley are only visible from underneath the vehicle (this is not good). I set the timing only by ear and checking to see the rpms were around 700. It ran fine for 2 days after the adjustment; the engine seemed to have come back to life. I know this was a no, no, but I needed a quick fix because I needed to get to work. I had the Pathy towed home and then started trying to diagnose the problem. I checked for any lose wiring, vacuum hoses and clogged filters. I finally messed with the timing as I had marked the previous setting and I fired right up, well sort of. It has an obvious miss but it started. My question here is does anyone here think I am going to have to replace the timing belt? I know the life span on those suckers is around 60 to 105 K and is there any way that cam shaft pulley could have been placed on wrong or has my timing belt lost a few teeth? The only 2 items I have not changed myself are the O2 sensor and that darn timing belt… Any insight would be greatly appreciated.