adamzan

We should have a poll on who thinks who loves their pathy the most!

Are patrol front axles hard to come buy?

I'll always try if i can to have another pathy, even if it stretches my wallet. Just the good times associated with them is enough for me to buy another one.

What I want to do is build it up to what it used to be, and then from there weld in additional supports and get a hitch that I'll weld into the frame, and bolt it in as well. Would the mig or the arc welder be better for what I want to do?

Oh it will get fixed right, whether i learn to weld or I pay someone to do it, its going to be done right. I hate half ass jobs, especially when safety is on the line. I want to really beef up the frame though, as it looks like even if it wasn't rusted, its not really that strong.

I guess if i fix my frame, i should throw in some body lift pucks for good measure eh?

Yeah, im in canada, and every pathy ive looked at around here has frame rot, so what are ya gonna do. Might as well fix it. I think I'm going to practice my welds and get good, and then do my frame. I might buy another welder too, but the 70 amp one will have to do for now.

Yeah I was just practicing on some scrap steel, a lawnmower, and I guess it was probably because I didn't grind it down enough. I tack welded some braces on to my pathy frame with my friends 225amp lincoln arc welder so I could move it around the yard without the frame snapping, and it seems to penetrate well.

Lmao, wow, we actually had some of those in high school

I think for the amount of welding I need to do, any welder will take a long time. I've never hit duty cycle on it though, there is a light, but its never come on. Also how can I draw a good bead when it just spatters around and makes little round balls of weld?

After reading this thread I feel like I should just throw my welder in the garbage, its a mastercraft 70amp mig with optional argon, and to think, i was going to weld my pathy frame with it. I'm going to practice with an arc. I'd really like to get started so I can work on some projects, are there any welders out there that are a good value but won't hurt the wallet so much, and I know you get what you pay for.

I got my pathy from my dad, and then he bought a 2000 r50, so like simon and pezzy, I have the best of both worlds. I can off road in my stock wd21, and go pick up groceries for my dad in the r50 (just kidding). I do love these trucks though, I don't know what nissan did to them, but they must have done something right. And now I might be getting another one, a 95, to drive to college with. Even though it has 445000 kilometers on it, and people tell me thats too much, I just look at them and say, thats nothing for a pathy. And when I was at my orientation for college today someone asked me how I'm commuting, and I told them, I'm driving a nissan pathfinder, they said and i quote "holy @!*% you have one of those bad ass trucks? ME: damn right and i wouldn't have it any other way!" My dads new wife (can you feel the love) is trying to get him to sell the r50 pathy now, well if she does succeed, the last time i drive it, it'll be in 4x4 driving over her junker corvette, which by the way, has had more money put into it repairs wise than both our pathys combined, and its only got 160,000 kms on it. While the r50 is around 200k km and the wd at 340k km. Top that domestic s*** heads

I'd be most concerned about the cruise control

I thought it was the wd21's that didn't like big tires in the front, but i could be wrong.

i want to get in contact with him too, for something else

starter maybe?

no problemo

has anyone seen the movie: "walmart: the high cost of low price"

is it flogging molly? you can borrow my pathy, nice and rusty!

My usual response: Meh, not me in the car. I would just park it in front of their house and move it every few days. Do you have a female dog? If so let it pee on their lawn.

since my windshield is cracked and won't pass inspection, im getting another one. I called the shop, and they can still get me the one with the antenna

My antenna mast is stuck halfway up so I get good AM from the windshield antenna and decent fm from the mast.

I have one as well, I was wondering why i never got stuck in the big mud hole that all the other trucks got stuck in, untill my friend said it was because all 4 of my wheels were spinning when i floored it. I knew my truck was really rare. I'm in canada too btw. Im the third owner, the second was my dad and the first was his boss, definitly no mods.

funny how i have bigger tires stock than my friends with chevy and ford pickups do

Sounds like someone is trying to sneak out of the house