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Here's the link and some shots with the first prototype on my truck. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15l-NlSyDP_i69i3zcxD7mja0w7wJcLhy?usp=sharing My printing skills aren't the best so it turned out not so well first try, but a professional could probably make a nice one. Here's what it looks like on the truck. https://imgur.com/a/JhC1wid

The ones in the wd21 are perfect in mine somehow. But there is gobs of oil and grease in that spot. The benefit of living its entire life before me at quick lube places I guess. They don't seem to do that for you anymore though lol. Sadly the Xterra has the same issue, the pin is seized but at least the hinge looks replaceable as an assembly. I had an issue where it would cause the truck to stumble on take off, and the rpms would hang at like 1.5-2k even when warm. When it was cold it was all over the place. Replacing the TPS with another (off a parts truck) resolved the issue. Then comes the problem of setting it correctly lol. I opted to swap the whole throttle body off my parts truck so it was already set in the right spot.

Finally got out to RAC on Saturday. Was cold, had snow flurries all day, but it was beautiful out. The day was going pretty well, until we got down a trail that my friends Hyundai Elantra couldnt exit. So I had to back out of his way, and unfortunately missed a tree in the mirror, ripping off the driver rear fender flare and snapping off half of the brake light lens. No big deal. Obviously it was pretty rusted out. I had some plans to relocate the brake lights to the door using flush mounted LEDs and armoring the quarter panels with diamond plate anyways. Ended up bottoming out in a bunch of deep ruts. I was trying to stay off the ice, but slid down into it. Luckily I carry over 70ft of tow strap, so the Elantra rescued me. Then, not even 5 minutes later, I did some real damage. When trying to go up a trail around that hole, I again couldnt see my clearances to the trees and body rolled right into a tree. Heard the passenger mirror smack the window and by the time I snapped my head over, the sound of stressing steel and the sound of safety glass. Well, it pulled the whole lens off the other taillight now. At this point, I was 80% sure I was going to have to get a ride back home and grab the trailer. Then this happened... My friend wanted to try and drive through a water hole in the Elantra. Seeings as the Pathy is taller, I figured I would go through first to break the ice. Well, it got deep. About halfway through, the inner wheel well (which had fallen out earlier in the day, you can kind of see it it) fed the airbox a large mouthful of water. Soaked the filter, and went straight into the intake causing it to hydrolock. So again, I needed rescued. Had to crawl through the back (with my gimp leg), pull out tow strap, and with only about 3" between the bumper and water try to hook the strap to a hole somewhere. Once we got it out, we just kept trying to crank it until the water blew through. Had to leave the airbox open minus the filter so it could breathe. So after being rescued again and with darkness around the corner, we decided to take it easy. Once we were done, I decided it had to be trailered as there was no way it was gonna be road legal to travel some 50 miles. Sat in the Walmart parking lot while I waited on a ride. He showed up, took me home. Had to fix a light on the truck quick, go grab my trailer at my dads place, and do a round trip to rescue the Pathy. So I started out a 9am. Helped a friend move. Met up with another friend to ride RAC at noon. Rode until about 6pm. And by the time I got back home with the Pathy, it was 11:45pm. So far from what I have discovered from the day... 2 broken taillights 1 missing fender flare 1 missing foglight (didnt work anyways, but its gone gone now) 1 Broken rear window 1 crumpled RR quarter panel 1 damaged C pillar Hydrolocked the engine so who knows where else water got Power steering pump barely works, needs a new belt All of the CV joint boots were torn so they are definitely full of grit Transfer case sounds and engages funny Broke the exhaust pipe where it goes up over the axle. No chance of this thing getting inspected now!