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  • Birthday 03/27/1976

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    Mostly stock Canadian spec 1994 WD21 V6 Pathfinder SE. Running K&N air filter, Bosch +4 sparks, and custom tubular bumper from Sterling Equipment. Not much but spend the cash I can. Only just got into 4x4 but having a blast with Northern Alberta 4WD Association
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    Wrench And Socket Set Mechanic
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    30-35
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    Weekend Warrior
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    1995

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    Stony Plain, Alberta
  • Interests
    Wheelin', ski-ing, climbing, hiking, being lazy . . .

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  1. Thanks man, I'll go have another poke around.
  2. OK, probably complete novice questions but . . . Got a body lift planned for my '94 Pathy. Read all the posts about longer HB T-case shifters versus slice'n'splice on a Pathfinder shifter versus bending versus notching the floor etc. All good info. I have an old '92 Pathy as my parts rig so I'm going the cut-and-lengthen route. The rig I'm lifting is an automatic but my parts truck is a manual. So my questions are . . . 1) Are the T-case shifters for the automatic and manual the same? 2) How the bloody hell do you remove the shifter!? I've tried on the manual-box parts rig and got all the points where the links pivot on the transmision casing disconnected but there doesn't seem to be room to pull the linkage off the splines without dropping the T-case and transmission. Do I have to dissasmeble the ball joints that are protected by the rubber boots or should it just simply unscrew somwhere? Haven't looked at the (auto-box) rig that I want to lift yet as its my daily driver and I'm real busy at the moment. There's probably a really simple way, but I'm just being mechanically chalanged. If it just unscrews and I've overlooked it, then I'll really feel kinda stupid!
  3. Don't have any pics at the moment. Will try and get unde rthere and take some to post though
  4. Hey guys Haven't been on here for ages (like since Novemeber last year!) been WAY to busy with work. Anyway got a whole bunch of Autometer gauges to go in my '94 V6 Pathy and a whole bunch of questions too. So, where would be the best place for mounting the sending units for oil pressure, oil temp and water temp? Oil pressure switch port next to the opil filter with a T-fitting for the oil pressure so I can still keep the idiot light? But then where for oil temp? And where's best for water temp - in the hose to or from the rad? Also, for existing mounting ports (e.g. oil pressure switch) does anyone know what the metric thread pattern is so I can get the right NPT adapter without having to taker apart, measure, put back together etc etc. Got the tranny gauge in with two senders (cooler line in, cooler line out) on a rocker switch. Works great, I can see how well my tanny cooler's working! Thanks for your in-put and hopefully I'll be bcak on the forum a lot more now. Cheers Mark
  5. Well, after damaging clutch plates in my auto hubs when changing my CV axles I got me the Mile Marker Premium hubs. Hopefully now I shouldn't get stuck in my own snowy driveway when the hubs refuse to engage! Got the new hubs on my desk and got Thursday off work! Sweet!
  6. We at NA4WDA have a run out to the Hinton area Nov 17. Guest are welcome, so send me a message or e-mail if your interested. Mark
  7. Would be great to have you along! Just send me an e-mail (furzem@macewan.ca) or PM me and I'll give you the details. Or you can always come along to the NA4WDA wings night at Montana's down by Ikea at 7pm each Wednesday night. Well, almost every Wednesday, the 1st wednesday of each month we have our monthly meeting at Bo Didley's at 118Ave and 142St at 7:30pm
  8. Greetings from another E-Town Pathy wheeler
  9. Yeah, too true. Zoned out a bit there in the rush to get 'er done. We all know it, guess it's remembering it in the heat of the moment.
  10. Well, finally did get my hub fixed at the last minute so that meant I could wheel last weekend! Cinderella will go to the ball! Turned out I’d have mised an awesome run if I hadn’t gone. So, we had a great run on Saturday in the Prairie Creek area SW of Rocky Mountain house. NA4WDA had 23 rigs out and one of the largest runs of the year. Split into two groups with the less than 32†tire rigs, including myself, doing the Woody Woodpecker trail and the 33s and larger doing a really gnarly trail called Big Bear and Spyder Hill. Sunday some of us did the old favourite Eagle’s Ridge with only minor winching in the central mud hole and tank trap. Weather was tops, some pretty neat mud holes, tight trees and river crossings on Woodpecker. Carnage wasn’t too bad though my wheel got jammed up when a rock got stuck between the rim and the rotor guard. Also had a jeep that popped a bead and another smashed a side marker and bent a control arm. All par for the course! The big truck run on Big Bear was pretty brutal though, some insanely steep hills, lots of winching and lockers front and back a must. Had a passenger side window on a jeep smashed by a branch and take a chunk out of the passenger’s head rest. Brown pants time for the passenger. Anyways, a few pics from Woody Woodpecker here. Our next trip will be out to the Brule area west of Hinton towards the end of November. Mark VP Offroad NA4WDA
  11. Safari Park is pretty good and Lee who runs the place is a good guy. Close to E-Town though, there aint much. The OHV area near Brudherheim (sp?) is probably the safest bet. There's also the Long Lake area but that's a ways out to the NE and is normally only good after freeze-up, too much skeg. To the north up on the Athabasca River just to the east of Fort Assinaboine is the Vega OHV area. That's pretty good, plenty of trails. Not much to the west until you get 1.5 to 2 hrs out of town. I know some guys from the Edmonton Jeep Club have been playing around in construction sites (big no-no!) and around the river valley near Devon. Again, the Devon area is off limits as it's private property and will only piss folks off at a time when we're fighting hard through the advocacy group Alberta 4WD Assoc (not to be confused with Northern Alberta 4wd Assoc) to keep trails open in the light of pressure from Sustainable Resources and Development Alberta. Seems that 5 guys in 4x4s on an old forestry trail is environmental damage but clear cutting and strip mining are OK 'cos that's big business. Welcome to Alberta I guess. Sorry for the rant! Mark
  12. Thanks man, does raise the question though . . . Warn, Milemarker or Superwinch?
  13. Basic question, but without taking the hub off (again) and looking my self, what is the spline count on the drive axle of a 1994 SE V6 3 litre 4wd? Want to order the correct manual hubs first time. Thanks Mark
  14. Yeah, I've stayed at the campground at Pembina Forks a few times new Robb there. Some really nice trails. The trail from the Grave Flats road in to Ruby Falls is pretty awsome. Lots of river crossings (like 10 each way) beautiful views and a pretty rough bouldery trail. Lost both front shocks, bump stops and CV boots on that one during the summer!
  15. OK. We got everything off and the new axle in on one side no problems. But when it came to re-assembling the auto hub the groove for the snap ring wasn't quite out far enough to get the old ring on. The splined washer and clutch plates weren't pushing back far enough or the end of the axle wasn't sticking out far enough. Ended up busting the splined washer into fragments trying to get the snap ring on. So now I've only got 3 wheel drive. Any ideas why the end of the axle wasn't sticking out far enough? These were brand new axles so maybe there wasn't really a problem just that I should have got a bunch of new snap rings of different thickness that would have fit. Oh well, looks like I'm ordering manual hubs. I hear the Milemarker is pretty good. But no wheeling this weekend, only as a passenger if I can get a free seat
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