ChaosSaint

cool ideas! I saw a roof chop in one of these sections and looked a little goofy. I would like to lop the back off and make it a 2 door and make a roll bar or something, but at that point I might as well figure out if I can swap in a pickup cab and plop it on the frame. Not sure how feasible that is... I would like it to be street legal so I can cruise it in the summer and still get around in heavy snow. SAS is kind of a "standard" route. I'm not opposed to it, just trying to think of something creative that hasn't been done before that I can do with this thing. Trying to think outside of the box on this one. Another thought - If you had a fully functional motor and drive train but no frame to drop it on, what you do with it? And yes, no matter how I shake it, I still have to do something about the frame. Maybe that's where I'll start - pull the motor and try to lift the body completely off and then roll the frame out to work on. Maybe sandblast the whole thing and start cutting and welding till it's back in decent shape. At that point a SAS would make sense. For some reason I have something dune buggyish pictured in my head. I really like the look of the truck on http://www.purenissan.com/hardbody.htm but if i was trying to go that route I should probably just start with a pickup I highly approve of the zombie hunting permit on the dashboard!

So my 95 pathy has been sitting for a while and I'm trying to decide what to do with it... I was thinking about cannibalizing it into some cool buggy-ish vehicle or something. The motor and drive-train are all still in decent condition, and I have a decent set of 30" mud terrains on toyota wheels, but the frame is pretty much shot. I've kind of given up hope on it being sturdy enough for rough trail use. Maybe tear it down and fab my own tube frame but keep a similar geometry to drop the drive-train back in place? I dunno, just thinking out loud. I'd like to turn it into some sort of project as I have garage space and 2 alternative vehicles to drive. If you had a pathy to do whatever you wanted with (on a reasonable budget of course) what would you do with it?

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Hopefully it's a bit of encouragement to others that have bad frame rot. I replaced the passenger side tension/compression rod and bushings, inner and outer tie rods, and upper balljoints. I couldn't get the lower balljoints out though. They are stuck in there pretty good. I got an alignment not too long ago but it didn't seem to hold... I'm getting some really weird wear on my tires and still have a little shimmy-shake in the stearing, i think it was due to the big crack above where the compression rod bolts to the frame maybe?

It can be done! Went with 1/8" It looked and felt a bit thin but after it was all boxed in it was solid. Before After Before After Before. And yes, there is no side or bottom to that. Only a top and back side in the shape of an L After - Fresh steel!

Not sure about the first part but DoctorBill did an excellent write up for replacing the timing belt Link - http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=23280&view=&hl=timing%20belt&fromsearch=1

I think it smothes out the air flow going into the motor - creates laminar flow vs turbulent? I pulled mine out too, didn't notice a difference without it.

You are correct... I ment that the read out of my cluster was mechanical - some have a digital readout. I do know that it's an electric signal fed to the cluster, however, I do not know where the problem lies

agreed... just pop those suckers out while ur in there, another $100 and and what, an extra hour? I picked up inner and outer tre's, upper and lower bj's for passenger and drivers side for about $85 on ebay - not top of the line by any means but better than 15 year old parts

54's? Might have to add another gerbil to the wheel under the hood to get those suckers to turn!

cleaning out the throttle body really well put some pep in the step of my pathy, try that yet?

... really now? It was my understanding that they were not interchangeable, I guess this is not the case? I'll have to check with him cause I passed up on a digital one because I was under this impression

my tach does that too... it's a common pathfinder problem. There are replacement clusters posted on ebay for about $100 If you decide to replace it and your trip odometer is mechanical, a cluster with a digital trip odometer will not hook up. second vote for leaking manifolds clean out your throttle body and MAF sensor (posted in garage section i think)... does wonders for start ups and evening out ur idle

My trip and primary odo are both mechanical. What sort of little white thing was it? Visible from the backside? I assume you had to take it apart to get to it?

I pulled the cluster to check out the wires behind it and they looked fine... any idea where they feed from? tracing it through the harness would be a bear