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Yes!!! B4574RD!!! Double B4574RD!!! That’s power steering fluid in the bottle BTW not pee... I’m not about that life anymore

One smart trick was a guy who pushed each bolt into a cardboard template to keep track of what went where

How the hell did you get that pivot pin out with the tabs intact? I quickly lost patience with mine and gave it a very aggressive haircut. I'd almost forgotten about it until I saw your picture and wondered why it made me angry. What went wrong with the booster? Also, nobody chooses the piss-bottle life. The piss-bottle life chooses you.

Just gave the video a watch and it looks pretty easy to me. I think it’s worth giving it a shot myself. Biggest thing for me will be taking pictures of how everything is laid out before touching anything so I can always check if I put it back together correctly. It’ll also give me practice taking apart engines for when I get up the courage to replace the valve cover gaskets and injectors on my girlfriends 4runner. That’s going to be a nightmare job

of course the engine would be inside the car lol but great display of how it works. the work needed to be done ends at 14 mins, very easy if you just slow down and keep track. also at 18:26 in the video, you’re staring directly at the power valve screws, there is 2 for each gold power valve. @raingoat this would help when trying to explain the procedure!

Cool. I can’t order from Rockauto because I’m in Colorado and the tax changes make it so they won’t ship here anymore but I can try to find the full set on a different site. I think I saw the felpro set on eBay

I took apart my manifold 3 times for various jobs such as the power valve screws, coolant crossover pipe and valve covers and I've used both OEM gaskets as well as the Mahle complete set and the Mahle imo looks very similar to the OEM gaskets and I have no issues with them. Here's a link to the gaskets and they also have Felpro which is fairly reputable as well. https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/nissan,2002,pathfinder,3.5l+v6,1431960,engine,intake+manifold+gasket,5424

Very common trick, works well. Having done the screws myself, definitely recommend the cardboard and taking some pictures. Also a torque wrench and the torque specs from an FSM.

Strato's approach is probably easiest, especially if you're running wires for the camera to the back of the truck already. With a little staring at the wiring diagrams, you could follow the reverse light circuit forward, find the same wire closer to the dash, and have a much shorter wire to run. You can find all the wiring diagrams in the EL section of the service manual. This might help with the antenna. Looks like you're on the right track unscrewing the top of it. Maybe the mangled stub of the antenna mast is holding it down?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!

Thanks a lot man! Being a visual person, videos are 9000 times easier for me to learn from.

finally some daylight pictures! I went ahead and sprayed the OE wheels black. Bear in mind I’m a horrible painter, but they are indeed no longer silver. So I count it as a success I loved the look of the black wheels on everyone else’s rigs so I figured I’d like mine better in black as well. Makes the tires look bigger and the truck more aggressive. Next up is probably removing the running boards for more clearance on the sides

Last night one of the spring cups on my driver side drum came loose causing the drum to get smoking hot and the shoes to seize. Had to fix everything in the Kroger parking lot at 11pm in the freezing cold! Dang it!