87pathmaker

Just think... 400,000 miles at 16mi/g= 25000 gallons of gas, or in todays market, $81250... Really, are our pathys that cheap haha. Now I'm going to have to get an "aveo"

I've got a high torque cordless milwaukee.. .all I need is a sweet diamond blade and i'm set! I'll start my little mafia right here in Wrangell, AK. Only problem is most cars up here have lost their exhausts anyways

Well don't really.. but check this out. http://www.newsweek.com/id/88793?GT1=10755

http://www.bmcforums.com/showthread.php?t=42402

Awesome information! thanks guys!

Just had another passanger cv axle blow up on me... I can't remember if all wd21 axles are the same. I have an 87. are all the wd21 axles the same part number?? I'm ordering from out of state, so I have to make sure the axle is correct.. it's such a pita to return stuff from ak.

Heres a pic of my 9004 hid retrofit (no high beam..) they're pretty bright, and quite a bit of glare.

Just do a sas at the same time, prolly make it easier

thanks for all the info guys! Bouncing in 4-lo causes broken front axles I found that out the hard way.

It's a Manual. I figured 4 lo would be perfect for pulling it out of the water

So, I just picked up a 16ft glasply (~1500lbs) runabout with a 88hp outboard (~300lbs), and will be towing it on a small ez-load trailer probably 15-16ft (~300-500lbs)... not many hills, no more than a few miles to drop her in the water. Pathfinder=87 pathfinder, 4" trailmaster lift, 3" bl, 33" tires... I haven't thrown on a tow hitch yet, I was going to incorporate it into the steel bumper i'm going to have fabbed. Only thing I think I might be concerned about is not having heavy duty springs in the rear. Can she do it? Or should I borrow a buddies truck until I pick up my titan ?

I have an old nismo catalogue from like 2000, I'll take a look in it... 6:1 crawler gears

Do they make 5.38's for the h233b 31 spline??

Scary I'm planning on keeping it for outings only here, right now it's daily driven..well, only about 5 miles a day if that. My fiance and I are going to pick up a tow vehicle for our hotel, I'm thinking either a new tundra or titan. There are all kinds of places to play up here, and I've met a couple locals who have some pretty built cralwers. One is a Samurai with toy axles on leafs with 35's, and the other is a cj7 on 36's (the guy who's putting in a 9", not sure what he's got in the front yet). , condions vary from mud to thick moss called "muskeg" to severe rock formations, and tons of beat down logging roads so I plan on running at least 35's to get through the deep stuff. I like the idea of a front 3-link with coils, simple and effective, and probably more travel/flex than I'll need up here, with an ox locker... I haven't decided on gearing just yet. And I'm just going to follow nissannut's lead with the stock rear 5 link and extend the rear links, using the lower rear links as uppers and relocating the lower mounts, and extend the upper links to work as lower links. Use lift coils, and install a powertrax in the h233b, and match gearing to the d44. Sounds simple... but it never works out that way

Yes.. from an early bronco.. there is a local who is going to pick up one and tear out the ford 9" and was going to scrap the rest. He told me I could have the front axle for dirt cheap. BTW. Just snapped another front axle yesterday, lol, I guess this is just making my decision that much easier.

Ok... located another local axle... a bronco I should be a dana 44 driver side drop with radius links right?

That sucks... Do you know what year they changed over to a driver side drop? I'm only asking because I'm not 100% positive of the year

So I've been contemplating a sas on my 87 pathy along with a few other goodies and making it pretty much an offroad only vehicle here in Alaska, where honestly they don't care what you drive as long as it has lights and wheels.. anyways back to the story. I've got a buddy who is a full time fabricator and who has done a sas on his chevy, and has offered to do a swap for a very small amount if I provide the parts as an alternative to rebuilding my IFS> I was just informed recently that there was a 78 cherokee chief sitting at the local scrap yard (city runs it) about to get crunched, and to pull a part is only $10!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I went up to look at it today, and couldn't tell due to the amounts of cars surrounding it. Does anybody know for sure that it is equipped with dana 44's? it was 6 lug, and from what I've researched on google they are... if so, i'm heading there tomorrow with a cutting torch

Aren't you worried about a rock taking out one of the fittings on your sliders? I love the setup by the way.

Update: Two of my refunds went through (by march 14th), I'm waiting on the third NINE days later, it's been "pending" since march 12th, which basically means that the bank can't transfer the money... otherwise it would have done so many days ago (2-4business days after transaction, like the first two). So I called paypal back, and they verified that the bank will not pay the money out for 10 days (after the attempted transaction, not date of refund) to paypal if there is non sufficient funds... and that was the ONLY reason that it would be taking so long... So ultimatly I'm a little pissed off, because I'm out $660 for another 5 days because my money was spent before the thought of returning an e-mail ever occured... Whatever, at this point I should just be happy that I'm getting it back at all right? I'm sick of this @!*%... I'm running a million dollar business right now, so I know what it's like to be busy, 16 hour days 7 days a week, and if I ever treated clients like this, I'd be run out of it pretty quickly... It's just ridiculous.

Yeah, I hope this gets turned around...seeing as this forum will be the majority of his word of mouth marketing. I really was looking forward to using his products...

I agree. I just went out and bought a $30 idler arm assembly just to get around. I'll unfortunatly probably be going with the calmini kit now, which was my original choice... or just go crazy and sas haha.

Yeah, I did last week, just got the refund today.

I don't know man, he basically told me that he was going to ship mine today. It sucks that I had to resort to it, but I filed a claim last week, and finally received my money back and an e-mail from him today. Sucks that it took all that to get a response from him. Good luck.

He's still selling them... But make sure that you get a hold of him first, and get a date that he is planning on shipping before verifying payment... imo.