adamzan

After having done this 3 or 4 times on Xterra and WD21 I'd agree pulling the diff is much easier than wrestling the transmission back far enough, because I also had to pry the torsion bar xmember down or just remove them.

That's insane the @!*% with ups... I can only hope this insanity stops soon. It's not good for either side of the border.

I have an old set of yokohama winter tires on lego wheels, that I use as "rollers" for my projects. The date code is from the year 2000... Of course these don't see the road.

I know a lot of people like to delete stuff like those lines but the truck just runs better when you don't try to engineer it yourself lol.

That sounds more like sommething external to the motor. Do what @Slartibartfast said, if that isn't it, these trucks were kind of known for the harmonic balancer separating (it's a 2 piece press fit rubber thing IIRC). I would check that out as well. My parents 2000 R50 with the VG33E had this happen, twice. The first time, the dealer replaced a ton of parts before finding it. An easy way to check rod knock is to loosen all the plug wires at the distributor and then while the truck is running, remove one at a time and see if any make the knock go away or less pronounced. Good luck and keep us posted. For what it's worth, of all the Nissan vehicles I've had with the VG engine, I only ever had one with a rod knock and it was severely overheated several times/ran without coolant.

Thanks! Glad to help out.

That same guy has the username "Nefarious" on here. He hasn't been on in a while but maybe PM him and it'll email him to remind that npora still exists lol.

Any first gen Pathfinder, hard body, Xterra, or frontier wheels will fit. Supercharged Xterras came with 17" wheels. Probably not hard to find a set of those. The 2nd gen Xterra/frontier like slart said have a different bolt pattern and won't fit. Many aftermarket Chevy wheels will also fit. Be careful with Toyota wheels, you'll likely need different lug nuts for those.

It wouldn't be too hard to delete the sunroof, weld some sheet metal in and finish it off with short strand fiberglass/body filter, then paint. My friend did it on his R32 Golf track car.

You can bypass it with a union, there was a post on it on here somewhere. The dampener is to assist with smooth shifts IIRC. First I would check the return spring on the pedal itself as well as bleeding the clutch fluid. I still have mine In place and have never had an issue. Just replaced a couple bad slave cylinders. If it were me I'd check everything else before hacking into it to bypass it.

@hawairish I just wanted to say thank you for this info.... I remember paying $400 CAD PER SIDE for the parking brake bits on my old 1994 many years ago. And my current 1995 needs a refresh, with the board being down I couldn't remember what year Passport/Rodeo. Got the kit on order so I can finally put the brakes back together. Now if I could only find rust free or new dust shields for the rear. Hope everything is good with you

The early 2000s knock sensors were notoriously bad on the Nissan trucks/SUVs. I've replaced probably 10 on the various Xterra/Frontiers that I and family/friends have owned. You might get lucky but it'll probably come back.

Car parts are such a crapshoot these days.

Did you get it running again?

My parts hoard has saved me several times lately. Torsion bars for my Xterra, one let go. Found I had a nearly new oem set I bought off of a guy 15 years ago who fitted aftermarket bars on his. Perfect, free repair! Fan clutch went on the X, ripped the one off my old 94 wd21 that wasn't that old, it looked the same so I put it on.