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I have never found a timing belt time interval from Nissan, but it looks like other manufacturers spec less than ten years (some as low as five). Probably best to swap that belt out before it realizes that 2004 was 20 years ago.

I may be a lucky sumbitch. The garage where I had it towed called later and said the bolt holding the harmonic balancer had backed off due to an incorrect washer being used previously. They are replacing the woodruff key and hardware and I'm having them do the timing belt water pump and front seals as well. Good opportunity to inspect the timing gear key. I lucked out that the garage is independent and has a 13 year Nissan master tech on staff who geeks out over our old trucks haha. Thanks, I sent this to the mechanic. I'm sure they'll be tired of me bugging them by the time it's all over haha. I'm not capable of the engine swap myself and having a shop do it would probably break my bank account, luckily it sounds like I won't have to make that tough decision yet!