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DustyDevil

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  • Your Pathfinder Info
    200,000 miles and still goin!!!
  • Mechanical Skill Level
    Skilled/Experienced Mechanic
  • Your Age
    30-35
  • What do you consider yourself?
    Weekend Warrior
  • Year
    1994

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  • Location
    Oregon
  • Interests
    Canoeing, Harleys, Camping, Hunting, Gardening, Airstreamin' and my Pathfinder!

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  1. I cleared 260,000 miles today!! woohooo!!!!!! -bounce-
  2. just so ya know, engine mounts have rubber in them for a reason...the engine actually moves as you are running it. If you weld them solid, you will create frame stress and other problems. I would only do that in an ememrgency...like that's the only way you can get it back home....i've chained an engine before to get it home.
  3. when you can't find a bolt locally try Fastenal, or another large fastener manufacturing company...most of them will deal with resale if you can't find what you need. I have had to order other products from them directly.. working on motorcycles mostly, I tend to need a lot of odd sized bolts metric and standard. Also they carry a product called time sert....best spark plug hole thread repair I have ever found!
  4. I could tell ya some big romantic story bout it...but I'll save ya...I had an engine fire from that very fuel line! I smelled gas that morning and that evening driving up a long hill here in southern oregon...POOF! also, ...even if you get the fire out yourself (with your handy dandy fire extinguisher) pull your battery cables off your battery before the firetrucks show up...they will cut right through them! I't's a mess to clean up and replace wiring, hoses, hood liner, etc etc etc....sooo please check that lil' hose esp. if you smell gas when starting your pathy! Thinkin' bout that makes me wanna go -alcohol- and
  5. sigh, i went there...to no prevail. Started to put in my information and my firewall shut me down and wont let me go back. I'm from Alabama, lurked on here when I lived there, but relocated years ago to the Southern Oregon Cascades.. Sorry I can't add, but I can't get back on that site.
  6. A dead or weak battery will make it not fire up. I had a cheap rotor fly apart on me inside a cap on another vehicle, the computer on that vehicle shut it down and wouldn't even crank the car...something to do with no spark I guess. I replaced the cap and rotor and everything was fine. The screw might not have been tight, and eventually loosened during running of the engine. I would try the new ones, that might be all you need (make sure you get any pieces that might have broke off the rotor inside).
  7. that fuel line can cause a fire! please don't ask how I know this!
  8. Heck I'd pay for it sight unseen just for a parts truck...more if it runs! I have a 94 se...over 250.000 miles on it...auto trans. Gave it regular service, oil. tranny fluid, gear oil, etc etc etc....really haven't had any problems with it other than the manifold studs and the ghost door locks (which I've narrowed down to the alarm system) I plan on getting another 200 thousand out of mine. I might have to do a lil engine work, but I'll wait 'til something goes wrong with it first! when you buy parts...alternators, brake pads, anything get a lifetime warranty when it's available...well worth it when you've owned a vehicle as long as I have mine. and the most important part of being a pathy owner...GET IT MUDDY!
  9. I'm actually a pro seamstress...seriously.. Any upholstry shop should be able to make you one in a day...maybe attach it with snaps..that's my view on it...probably under 50 bux (depends on where ya go) with vinyl or a rip stop heavy nylon. I can picture in my head it being more like a tonnau cover. You can get vinyl or nylon in almost any color to match your Pathy too. I am going to make one for mine this fall sometime, I will post pics when I get it done. I thought of this, because there is no hardware to hide, or take out if you don't want it in there, just roll it up and store it. snaps stay out of the way and take up any of your cargo space.
  10. I did it...with the 2 3/8" four prong socket found at autozone..just like you described, ground two off and the others i rounded off, worked beautifully! Thank you so much!!! Lifesavers for unccpathfinder!
  11. I need a new welder for xmas...i coulda made that with a welder! have tons of old sockets laying around...the pins broke off when i did the initial torque setting to seat the bearing...think i made the steel too hot with the grinding belt and weakened that hardened tool steel...so tomorrow, i'll get the closest i can and grind the other pins off...it's moments like these that make me wish i had been a girl who never got her nails greasy! hahaha! (nah that couldn't happen to me!)
  12. Thanks for the tip on the tool, had i known that i would have bought it...but it looked like it was way too big when i compared it to the nut...sigh...120 miles of tool searchin and who knows how many calls lol...yep that helps tons... I got the nut off with the punch and hammer....but you can't put it back on that way as you have to be pretty dang right on with the torques on wheels bearings... so maybe we should do a poll no making a tool section??? lol i'd be willin to add pics of tools i've made and tool's i've gotten by without having to buy new stuff just for my pathfinder.
  13. Maybe someday we could have a specialty tool section...it would become very handy
  14. okay, i've searched all over, and can't find it...anyone know the part number or the metric size for the 2 point hub nut socket, for the front wheels on a 93 pathfinder? i found the part number for 97...but the tool catalog doesn't say it fits the earlier models...big sigh I need to get my truck rolling again...help!!!
  15. I'm in in the hills in Southern Oregon. Far away from most of you, lots of trails down here. I'll have to Post some of them when I have more time. There's a private property invite 4x4 course, it's rough, many vehicles trailered out. I'll find out more about that one too.
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