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Thanks man, I'll go have another poke around.

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!

Don't have any pics at the moment. Will try and get unde rthere and take some to post though

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

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!

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

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

Greetings from another E-Town Pathy wheeler

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.

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

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

Thanks man, does raise the question though . . . Warn, Milemarker or Superwinch?

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

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!

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

Hey Mookie, the NA4WDA's got a trip there this weekend. Just SW of Rocky in the Prairie Creek area. I'll post some pics etc after the trip. PM me if you want some more info or our trip list (member's only our forum) as the club goes there quite regularly. Anyway, now I'm VP Offroad for the club, planning trips etc, its good that we got a Pathy on the exec and not another jeep! I'd still encourage all those Edmonton Pathfinder folks to come along to our wings night at Montana's by Ikea every Wednesday night at 7:00pm. nd join up and come out and play with us. I don't like being the only Nissan! Check out http://www.na4wda.org for our site and forums. A lot of the stuff is members only though, so as not to get too much tree-hugger attention. Cheers Mark (a.k.a. nissan man on NA4WDA forum)

The Haynes manual and the Nissan shop manual talk about selecting new snap rings of the correct thickness and using a dial indicator etc etc. Any need for this or is it OK just to put on the new axle with the old snap rings and not worry about it. I didn't want to go to the parts desk and buy like 6 different snap rings at $8 canadian a shot just in case I needed one.

Yup, that's exactly what I want to do, but don't like the idea of the tranny sucking dry as it pumps the fluid out into the bucket. As far as I can gather, it wouldn't be able to pump new fluid back in unless you pumped it in yourself. Mark

Has anyone used the Motive Products Power Bleeder system to flush and refill their brake fluid? Seen a couple for sale on E-Bay and they look pretty good. It relies on positive pressure in the bleeder pump reservoir to force fluid through the lines. http://www.motiveproducts.com/02bleeders.html Also, I was thinking, would it work for flushing your ATF? I want to drop the pan, new gasket, flush the fluid while adding an external cooler etc etc. Reading on the forum here I see that you can run the engine and cycle through the gears to pump the fluid out through the line that runs to the cooler in the stock rad, BUT it doesn't suck new fluid back in through the return line. Could you use the power bleeder system to pump fluid into the return line from the cooler to stop the tranny from emptying out, thus truely flushing it rather than just replacing the fluid? Would this cause problems? Has anyone done this? Advice would be great. Cheers Mark

No doubt! I'd really recomend a snorkel! Mine has been really useful here in AB. Wish there was some way to waterproof (or mudproof!) my alternator and starter-motor though. And the radiator too! This damn mud here gets like hot chocolate in the mud holes and justs coats the rad. So many times I've overheated from that. There's gotta be a better way than carrying the weed-killer pump sprayer that I use to wash it down now.

Nah, she wasn't stoned, just been running behind for the last 10km and swimming through a couple of river crossings. Hell, that'd get be pretty beat too. These pics were from the Brazeau area 'bout 35mins west of Drayton Valley. The pics from my other link where I busted up my front suspension were from another area near Robb.

I was thinking that, just after my last post. No way it would improve CV joint angles at all. Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not a mechanic!

Yeah, that's what I figured, the missing bump stops being the main factor. As for the T-bars, I'm running a Calmini 3" suspension lift wich comes with new UCAs and T-bars to help maintain better CV angles so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Or that's the idea at least! As for the shock, that's the second mounting eye on a Calmini shock that I've had fail in the last 18 months. Gonna swap those out for some better made ProComps when I replace the damaged bushings and ball joints. Mark

Thought I'd share a few pics from a run I did last month down around the Brazeau dam are in west central Alberta. Went down there with a few rigs from Northern Alberta 4WD Assoc. Loads of great trails, though really muddy, some holes really deep and off camber, plus very tight bush. A great run aprt from the fact I toasted by alternator and had to be nursed the 100 or so km home swapping out batteries and running with lights out on the Yellowhead HWY at 11:30pm with an escort rig next to me in the outside lane lighting my way! Anyways, enjoy the pics and us Pathy drivers in Edmonton / central AB really should get together and hit the trails some time soon!

Ruby Falls. South west of Edson (or NW of Nordeg) in Alberta, on the eastern slope of the Rockies. Some awsome wheeling in the area there. The trails must be around 30-40km long, some great booulder crawling, river crossings and huge "jeep-eating" mud holes in places. Was there for teh canada day weekend so it was crawling in quaders. makes a good winter run too if you manage not to break through the ice! Got a whole bunch more pics in my photobucket site if you're interested. Mostly jeeps though as I was busy driving my own rig.