Ilostmypath

A washer sounds like a good idea. I don't know why I didn't think of something like that.

Thanks for the replies. And I don't really have a way of greasing it, don't you have to have a needle on your grease gun? Maybe I will try to bend the latch thing up or something.

I have a 95 xe with the the carrier on it, and it rattles upon hitting the smallest bump. Its completely intolerable off road. Without replacing the bushings in the hinge, how can I silence this?

There is a switch in the black piece around the radio, under the vent, that adjusts the brightness of the dash lights. First, make sure that it is turned up. If that does not work, pop that whole piece out and make sure everything fit reconnected before you reinstalled it. the switch fit the brightness is by the emergency flasher switch. At least, that is how the curved dash pathfinders are. I'm not sure about the square dash.