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Well, the Pathfinder is up and running again, but I must say it was a much tougher job than expected. My dad come over to help me, he is a retired aircraft technician so he is better at this stuff than me. Anyway, we replaced everything and most of it looked pretty good for 117k miles, except one cam shaft seal was slightly leaking. I had planned on changing those anyway. We worked 9 hours on Sunday and didn't get everything back together. So I called into work Monday and we finished the car around 4:00. When we started the car it sounded really rough, like a loud rattling similar to having a marble in the engine. So, I called my brother-in-law who is a toyota technician. He came over and said that we didn't tighten one of our cam shaft bolts or possibly the crank shaft bolt tight enough and it was wobbling around. So we had to take everything off to get back into the timing belt. He was right, so we tightened the loose cam shaft again and reassembled. We finally finished around 11:00 last night, but the car runs great now. Luckily no damage was caused by my oversight of the cam shaft bolt! That could have been an expensive mistake. I think this might be my last timing belt change. Thanks again for all the help on this site. Brian.

Thanks for the welcome guys.

Thanks 5523! I will get the large socket and some assembly lube. And I plan to rent the puller from the parts store. Thanks again for the help.

I'm new to the forum and gave 1998 Pathfinder. I plan to change the timing belt this Sunday and I found an excellent thread in the How Too's section. That is going to be a great help. Any suggestions on my timing belt change would be great.

Ok, thanks to this thread I am going to change the timing belt and other associated parts on my 1998 Pathfinder this Sunday. The truck has about 107K miles on it. Today I bought the timing belt, cam seals, crank seal, water pump, thermostat, radiator hoses and bypass hose, timing belt tensioner and spring, spark plugs, antifreeze, oil and oil filter. All for about $450. I have RTV sealant and antisieze for the plugs. I have 4mm-19mm sockets and the 27mm too. I have a torque wrench, breaker bar, and air compressor with air-hammer lined-up to use. I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything. About what size socket will I need to press the seals in? Any suggestions would be great. Thanks for your help...especially this thread!