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I have not yet been given an actual cause for this nearly week long outage, but after spending hours on the phone with the host company today, repeatedly reminding them that they had assured the site would be back up before this past weekend, here we are back up and running... finally!

Not able to upload photos with insert image 2" AC coils with 4" SFD, kyb struts, missing link, LR RKB101060.C8 about 6 inch rear lift, Bilstein 5125 33-185569, Warn Hubs, -3.75 backspacing, 33x12.5R15 Duratrac Wrangler, tire carrier with full size spare https://imgur.com/gallery/AIvp4br

my money is on the fusible links. been down that road a few times

You have power at the key itself, or at the switch? What are you checking at the column? Do you mean you've got no dash lights, or are the dome and headlights out too? I would check your work with the alarm system removal. If the ignition switch has come unplugged, or a connection to or from it has failed, that could explain a lot. I am assuming you've already checked the battery terminals.

My parts hoard has saved me several times lately. Torsion bars for my Xterra, one let go. Found I had a nearly new oem set I bought off of a guy 15 years ago who fitted aftermarket bars on his. Perfect, free repair! Fan clutch went on the X, ripped the one off my old 94 wd21 that wasn't that old, it looked the same so I put it on.

4WD W/D21 did in fact use this setup, from the introduction of our rear-only ABS through to the end. We never got four-wheel ABS. I did not know that the pinion sensors stuck around into the four-wheel ABS on the W/D22. Looks like the 4WD had two rear wheel speed sensors, while the 2WD used the single sensor on the pinion. Weird thing to design twice.

It's amazing how messed up a VG can be and still run! Hopefully it goes as long as you need it to.

The 2WD 3rd will physically fit all the same, but if the pinion flange is like how it used to be on trucks with the ABS sensor on the pinion snout, the flange will be about 3/4" longer than models with the ABS sensors at the drums. Though...I want to say some 2WDs (maybe the QX4?) had a CV-style driveshaft with a different bolt pattern. Pics would help confirm that. All R50s have 33-spline. The 31/33 split applies to Frontiers. Xterras were all 33-spline...you can use a 3rd from a 00+ Xterra or Frontier as well. Same HG46 ratio.

Dakota Digital made a device that I used in my first R50 for adjusting the speedo, but it had a problem where it freaked out when the input and output signal were the same. It was more designed to handle vastly different speedo sensors to speedometers...like 2000PPM on the sensor side and 60,000ppm on the speedo side. Some motorcycle speedometer correction devices seem more focused only going up or down 7% or whatever you are off. Those may be looking into. Motorcycles are almost ALWAYS 5mph faster on the gauge then you are actually going, which pisses me off to no end. The tone rings on the rear axles would have been tight, but cool to be able to build something like that.

So, I pulled the original Z24 out from under my bench. This was a runner, but smokey when I swapped it almost 20 years ago. One piston (#3) had bad rings and ring lands. Bores however, cleaned up nicely with a hone. Waiting for parts now. Will get new pistons, rings, bearings, timing chain/tensioners, oil pump. Have a reco head here on the shelf. The KA24DE swap can wait for now.

Recently i bought an r50 to replace my wd21 after almost a year of chasing issues only for a new oil pump to fail. So far my r50 build has 31x*10.5r15 cooper adventurer A/T 15 inch lego wheels rockford fosegate p3 10" sony single din radio front rockford 6.5" speakers starlight headliner and blacked out headliner swapped out to some wood grain trim floor lights rear traffic adviser bar/chase bar cb radio and pa system rear amber/white lights side 4 inch pods-niglight-install in progress front 36 inch bar-niglight-install in progress front amber/white pods-niglight sfcreations 2.5/3" lift-install in progress mile marker hubs-in progress jchl tow strap 20,000 break x-bull 13,000lbs synthetic rope winch custom pipe bumper with front skidplate i will add some more photos of the bumper and winch when i get a chance. link to the drive folder with pictures

Okay, so I figured out why I was having such an issue. It was the wrong seal. Sigh.

Not sure how long the forum was down, but it was caused by a PHP error on the server. And a thanks goes out to @adamzan for bringing it to my attention.