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You got Spacers from Alex? Why didnt you go with Shift220?

You can go rent a ball joint press from a auto parts store for $100 and then return it and get your monety back... thats what I did.... took maybe 15 minutes... Mechanic shops do it all the time unless they have one... or you could just go to a shop and they would charge you maybe $15? I have the same setup as you big bolt on the bottom which is made into the axle and small bolt on top.... I had to change the bushing for the big bolt.

I went to Advanced Auto parts and ordered Rancho RS5000's for a 2000 F250 with a 4" lift and customized the bushing with the metal sleeve on the shock because it is not a direct bolt on and will have to be modified. I just bought some extra bushings and cut the rubber lips off the bushing in the shock and after heating it up I pushed it out with a ball joint press and the new one slid right in. I had to use the ball joint press because the F250 rancho bushings have a metal sleeve in it that squeezes the bushing in. That is what I did but you may decide to go a different route; as for mounting I just mounted it regular.

Sculptr: It's not important to me at all, just like Pezzy said I was just looking for support; if you dont like me or my rig or don't think I deserve TOTM you don't have to vote for it..... I am also just trying to bring awareness to the TOMT catagory and would like to see more R50's in it. I do have to say I have seen R50 involvement a little more lately... My1 path: a 2 door would be awsome! and I like all Pathfinders and up in my area alot of WD21 owners are in awe of my rig and I point them to NPORA. Surprised I havent seen any new members from up in this area as I give them my S/N when I give them the NPORA info.

I have been trying to go for TOTM on here and it seems that older pathys seem to dominate the voting. Anyways heres the pic I put in for; and actually just got into the whole TOTM thing when I was exploring the forums and noticed it. Any support would be appreciated and hopefully I win!Heres the link to voting and heres my pic. Plus my birthday was Sept 23 if that counts lol. Link: http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=28082 Pic:

nope thats just dried mud on the rim... always good to hav a spare just in case.... had to change a tire on the trail a couple weeks ago

Thanks for the tip, I was going to pressure test the system this week and see what it does... The good thing is I have another DD that I can drive around while I am trying to figure out whats happening with my pathy... Although I took it out yesterday and wheeled the sh*t out of it and it never went above halfway on the temp gauge...

Just so you R50 owners can see the pics as the topic got moved to a picture section under the General Topics forum which I actually never knew exhisted.... Anyways here they are again as I wanted them viewed in this forum.

Well my radiator is clean i checked it out, when i went to go put the thermostat in today the radiator was 25% filled.... where did my water go? Maybe the overflow is cracked? And I flush my radiator every so often because of the mud and abuse I put my truck through.... It is definitly not the belt and the fan clutch is perfect; I just replaced it when my a/c compressor went out because I noticed it wasn't working properly. Once I put water in, it started to run normal but a little hot but not as hot as before so I put a new thermostat in and its perfect now. My only question is where could my water have gone?

So i was going with about 5 buddies to hit the trail last night and noticed I was running a little hot when we got onto the trails.... The temp gauge was literally 90% up almost to the H; so I turned my engine off and popped the hood and let it cool down for a few because my radiator was boiling; after it cooled down I checked all the fluids and they were ok, started it back up and went maybe a mile and it shot right back up, turned the heat full blast and it cooled down a little to half way. Decided to call it a night and left to go home and ran my heater full blast the whole way home and if I was going above 40 mph it stayed cool but when i stopped at a red light it got hot again.... So i am thinking its my thermostat.... Its $25 with a new gasket so I am going to change it out and hope thats it. Any other ideas?

Correct but I also added a 1" leveling rubber spacer so its 4+2+1 and now 7" of lift. I am running 34x10.5x15 TSL Super Swampers now.

Not the cleanest but they are rims. I actually dont remember the last time my pathy was fully clean....

1999.5 175k

SO I need a set of fender flares, or specifically the driver side rear flare; I tore mine off while doing some night wheeling and have never been able to find it.... Does anyone have a set or would be willing to sell me that one?

Here is the SAS I have been looking for, anyone hae any other good ones that give good info? http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=22160

Boosted has the right idea lol, he has the blunt in his hand.... Yea he is in new england for the next few weeks; it was a crazy night partying with Afroman lol.

Just thought I would share...

What ever happened to the thread jays work in progress which was a SAS build he was doing? I cant seem to find it....

So I went to a place about 4 hours up in maine called Rocky Mountain Terrain Park with about 30 of my buddies and there rigs; we were night wheeling up a mountain and I stuffed my tire in the driver side rear wheel well so much it popped my fender flare completely off, I didnt want to stop to grab it so I didnt have to hold anyone up so I said I would get it on the way back down.... So on the way back down I still couldnt find it; and we went out the next day in the light and still couldnt find it.... So now I dont have a fender flare on the driverside rear well.... Does anyone know if there is anyone who sells single flares or a cheap set of 4....? I am thinking about gettign some flares for a s10 blazer and seeing if those would fit If I trimmed them and or my fender a little..... Or woudl anyone know another model vehicle where the fender wells are about the same size?

i did a little bit of cutting and i have 34x10.5x15 TSL Super Swampers.... Another member with a SFD has 35's; you can go big it just depends on how much trimming you want to do.

Yea I love my SFD and the way my rig handles, I am actually looking into SAS's for the future and slowely getting supplies together..... Its going to be alot more work than the SFD which was a bolt on lift...

skinny pedal! lol... you cant be afraid to use it or push it all the way down

The lift consists of dropping the subframe 4" with blocks, 4" motor mount spacers, 4" strut spacers, custom elongated steering linkage with a extra u-joint, and custom coil springs for the back with a panhard bar drop.... The thing that sucks is no one makes lift kits for this and it all has to be custom made; but its a good also because not everyone has a lifted R50 this big, and not many people can say they built their truck from the ground up..... So far I think I am the only one in New England with this lift. Check out that link and it will fill you in on the lifting process...

Custom made

what do you have in it for a lift? it looks like a 2" with 32" tires... this is a 6" lift with 33x13.5x15 super swampers i actually just got 34x10.5x15 swampers... havet got pics up yet but its tall