SaKaNa

I'm in NJ, and my Pathfinder came from Autotrader.com as an LE. My title, registration, and insurance all say its an LE / V6 / 3.3L / 4x4. Theres no badging, but I've never see the LE/XE/SE badging on the 96-98s, especially the ones with the spare tire on the back. And I JUST walked out and looked, I DEFINITELY have a little orange sticker with white text on the rear differential that says "USE LSD OIL ONLY" on it... and I also have NJ plates. Oh, and I have some Aquatread3 tires or something. Really crappy.

Yep, use LSD oil only. And cloth in a 1997 Nissan Pathfinder LE. So what, I have a Canadian one? I found it weird that at 19 years old with 4 points on my license, I can get an SUV for only $192US/mo on insurance. So whats so special about mine anyway?

Heres what my options are. How would I know if I have an LSD?

I know my 4x4 and t-case are fine, since when I was recently in mud working on getting it out, all four wheels rotated at the same time. If I turn while in 4wd, theres no understeer at all, but if you try making an extremely tight turn, youcan feel the driveline binding up, or something like that.

I got my 97 pathy in water SO deep that it was over my seats, park rangers stood by saying "theres no way that things going to start" as a guy in a white F250 chained onto me, I got in, turned the key, engine started... the air intake was about 1/4th an inch above the water. These pathys will take ALOT of damage... except that I had tried rocking it and ruined my transmission. $1800 to rebuild.

So we all have the little Pathy wanting to swap ends issue when its really wet out, sometimes around here we'll have an inch of water on the roads, and everyone wants to keep a high speed, so you really need to floor it to get on, so I find myself using 4HI constantly on pavement. I recently read about driveline windup, and damaging transfer cases by running 4WD on pavement... except that even if I put it in 4 on dry pavement, I dont get understeer, it steers normally, and I know theres no problem with my t-case/tranny since I recently had the two rebuilt after trying to rock my pathy out of a clay pit. Is this not true 4wd? I thought that 4WD forced all the wheels to move at the same speed, whether or not the vehicle is in a turn... Perhaps I misunderstood? Or is this just my model being able to do something that my friends Jeep Cherokee cant do? (According to him). 1997 LE 4x4. If I start driving on pavement primarily in 4wd during light rain, is there going to be a problem? What about on *DRY* pavement? And lets not get on a "its a huge waste of gas you big-wastey-guy"... I'm not concerned about the gas, its that I hate doing a 180 on a busy road and needing to act like I meant to do it, and the police sure didnt like it either.