adamzan

Yes.

I would replace it. Mine is screwed too.

It won't be that much louder though if you do a lot of highway you might find it annoying.

Beware that many junkyard ones will most likely be worn down in the middle just like yours was. There is a post in the new people section that describes what happens.

Stop making fun of mine mike!

It's called the tension rod. But some parts stores will call it the "strut rod"

You need to remove the hub and snap ring, and push the cv out to make room. That is what I had to do.

probably out of balance, tires can do that as they wear.

Nope, they took it apart, and said there was nothing wrong with it. They filled it with fluid and it has been good ever since. But the point is, they did open up the trans. Maybe take it to Northend Nissan where morpheus is?

My father has a 2000 pathfinder as well with a standard tranny. He has 240,000kms on it and it's the original clutch and trans. When we first got it almost 5 years ago it used to grind going into 4th. Brought it to the dealer and they tore the whole tranny apart to inspect, free of charge. I would insist they inspect the trans rather than just replace.

Depends on the tire/vehicle for me. On the pathy I will be going black side out because I got used tires and the person had whites in and they're all nasty from the dirty winter.

Check / do these things. Air filter Plugs, wires, cap and rotor o2 sensor MAF sensor (clean it) Oil change Tire pressure Adjust Driving habits Should help.

There should be a bolt on the side that is really long, that is the adjusting bolt. It was easier for me to go in through the fender well with the tire turned. Used a long extension too.

X2 Starting to wear those mechanix gloves now though.

Well if your truck was flooding out, it probably burnt all that fuel at some point. Could the sensor just be fouled?

Yeah!! Road trip.

Yeah my dad's friend and colleague at work is a hydraulics engineer and he said they dropped the ball in the early 2000's. He said the fram tough guard is the only decent one they sell.

Black smoke is too much fuel. Mine used to bog down in the 2800-3200 range when the o2 sensor was gone. I drove it 5 hours like that, it just got terrible mileage.

By the way this is what mine sounded like when the alternator bearings were done. She died the next day. Changing an alternator is -35 is not fun! http://s269.photobucket.com/albums/jj74/ad...rrent=whine.flv

I believe the wiring goes like this: Fuse panel /ground somewhere -> seat (all wd21s have this wire with a blue plug under their seat) --> switch (there are 2 plugs on my seat, the one on the floor fit into one side, and I assume that the other plug is for the section of wiring to go to the switch. Hey Dhardison, does that orange-ish part of your switch light up when you turn on the heat?

It's the Napa "gold" filter that is the wix one. That is the one I use.

That tire shine stuff does wonders for faded black plastics.

I got a 10% discount on my timing belt parts at the dealer here in Ottawa just because when I got the total I said "damn that's pretty steep"

Just go to ANY autopart store and ASK for a filter for a 2003 pathfinder!!!

Yeah so you might as well ship it to me since I need to do an oil change.