GreaseMonky81

Ok I have refilled the collant system several times never exactly like you posted. Last time let it sit in the drive way and idle for about 20 minutes temp gauge went to half and stayed, toped of system, and went for drive, got hot, almost to the first hot line, pulled in driveway, and let it idle, sprayed raditor from the front with garden hose and droped all the way down to about a quarter on the gauge, im stumped I will try filling it the other way and see what happems the last time I did burp it with a funnel, but I will give this other way a shot. By the way where is the bleeder is that the screw on the upper rad hose? If so I tried that one.

Yes inside of the radiator looks clean. When I did the thremostat I rotated the water pump a few times and seemed to move water, when its running and the cap is off seems to be circulating the clutch fan dosent spin much when I free spin it either What is the process for burping the cooling system on these?

I did try replacing the cap I forgot about that one, and also I replaced that hose as well the bypass hose I believe

Ok this is where I am so far. I did plugs, wires, caps, rotor, pcv, fuel filter, air filter, and home made snorkel, I also changed the oil, and seafoamed the intake, crankcase, and fuel system, and thermostat. . Now my finder is running better than it ever has at least since I have owned it . Problem I am having is it is still running hot, I did a test to see if I was getting any combustion gases in the coolant system and it passed, but just slowly overheats, and depends on my driving style, how fast it warms up. Like on the way on a test drive last night got hot easy driving but a few little grades, but nothing major, came home a totally different way coasting down a hill, in 4th using more brakes than I should , and cooled right down to normal. Funny thing is I got a little frustrated and started pushing it hard and didnt seem to affect how fast it got hot. Any ideas? I am about ready to

Thats what I am hoping do you know of any ways to test?

Yes we where up at the powerlines, up from the motorcross track, i think its called bear prarie. yes the little 90 degree hose from the water pump i drove it all the way home from there to by evergreen highschool, maybe 25 miles

Ok so yesterday bunch of friends and I decided to go up in the hills out side of washougal and do a little wheelin. Anyways it was a bad day for my finder, first broke a left front cv axle, second took out the centerlink, and last think I may have blew the head gasket or head. What happened is we where driving in a convoy to a trail and the bypass of the water pump blew, steam rolled out from under the hood, instanly shut it down but didnt see where the temp was exactly at, towed it back to camp, thats where the centerlink went, friend ran into town and got me a hose put it back together, and now its running way hotter than before and has a miss at idle when you give it gas seems to clear out, coolant level has stayed up and no milkshake yet in the oil any ideas? Hopefully its not to major, cause I was recently terminated from my job for being injured at work, in the mits of a legal battle at this time, but anyways the finder is my main driver so any help would be apreciated

No its the columbia over in portland think its actually columbia blvd. It used to be Portland Auto wrecking then we bought them out.

Same company but I run the one over on North Columbia it is the newest yard

I am running manifolds right now I did notice ta difference the first time I did it, it was a drop in low end, I believe it was casued by going with 2 1/2" pipe second time i went with 2"

Well I feel special I am the manager at one.

How much did you say it was to enter? I may drive My 87 up towing my 72 Datsun 1200

Thanks for the welcomes all. As far as emission testing goes, I just took it thru this year so it has to go agagin in 2011, and then that is the last time. As far as mods for the out side I want to lift it of course, I am very pleased on how well it does off raod so far, I did find out the hard way that the ECM is mounted to low. And I bent two tie rods last weekend, but other than that no problems so far. I want to get more power also, and ad a second battery, a snorkel, and some mounts to my roof basket for jack shovel and axe, also considering the JC center console., I am also thinking I may want to change the diff gears, if i go to 33's right now it has 4.3's I think, and maybe eventually a sas

Well I actually joined back in January but am just getting around to introducing myself. Anyways, I have a 1987 Pathfinder XE, maroon, with maroon, power windows, locks, mirrors, pop out sun roof, spare tire carrier, V6, 5-spd, 4x4, ac, tilt, cruise. Mods so far include, custom roof (safari) basket, stereo install, including pioneer head unti with i pod control, phenoix gold 6 1/2's and 6X9's, to eclipse amps, and two MTX thunder 5000 series 10's in a slot port box. Magnum S9 10 meter radio, with an 11 meter conversion, and a texas star 250hdv linear, 1500 watt coleman invertor, dual 2" exhaust with flowmaster 40 series, and no cats. and a lot more to come. I will try to get some pics soon