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Very sad. RIP Jared, my thoughts and prayers go out to your familly. D

Nice for the highway, but not recomended for off roading

A tip if u use high temp paint such as BBQ paint. Paint it while the ehaust is still hot or heat it with a torch or heat gun first (don't use the torch or heat gun at the same time as your painting for obvious reasons). This bakes the paint on and will last longer before you have to repaint. My friend would do all his snowmobile/ATV mufflers this way and it worked great.

Your shifter will get warm a little, but if you feel a hot air comming up through your boot is most likely ripped. Pretty easy to check on the older models as there sre only two snappers holding the top boot to the floor on the drivers side.

Looks like people have answered to your wiring questions already. As for your water/sand. I'm betting that the bottom of your rear quarter panel is starting to rust at the seem and that is the source of your leak.

That's/ alright/ ....... a/ little/ anoying/.....but/ alright/ :tonguefinger:

Wow.....remind me not to go trailing with 88....he means buisness! I say trail damage....unless the guy runs you in purposely or does something really stupid, like try climbing a hill that's iced up after someone says hey "don't climb that hill because you're not going to make it and then you're going to slide back down and around the corner and hit that pathfinder...." is to be expected and should be your own responsibility. It sucks to get run into and if I ran into someone I would offer to help with the fixing of the rig, but trailing has a lot of unforseen and I think even insurance companies might have issues with paying for trail damage.

So let me get this straight.......these guys are doing free promo/advertising for Ford products by showing of show car made out of regular stock vehicles and Ford wants to spend money on lawyers to make sure it doesn't happen.....Someone in Ford marketing needs to get their but kicked!

Don't look at it as a bad day for Pathys....look at it as the older pathys just increased in value.

Well at least they knew which model to pick..... That is awesome, can't wait ot see!

The original control arm bushings were made of rubber, so there was a little bit of movement. But there should be minimal movement. If you see anything over 1/2" of movement back to front you would be safe to say they are toast. My guess by the way you describe your sway, you will see closer to 1 or 1 & 1/2" travel. If you can see inside the mount, you might even see the rubber seperated from the metal and if they are bad enough, you will be able to move them up and down by hand.

Get someone to look underneath at the lower control arm bushings (were they mount to the frame) as you put presure on them (brakes on and drive, reverse and a little gas) and I'm willing to bet my lunch money you'll see your bushings are gone.

Suddenly or over time? I know the control arm bushing will give you sway, but 8" side to side seems excessive.