muddfildvaynes

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

I would like to see what your rig looks like....

I dont know if they have this around you but here in NH they have a Robbins Autoparts store and they sell stock replacement exhaust, I had to replace mine from the cat back and it was like $360 for everything and it is just bolt on with new gaskets....

So after putting my leveling kit in, which involved me unbolting my shocks so my axle would drop further down so I could squeeze the rubber spacers in then bolted my shocks back up; I took my pathy to a 45 degree ramp to test out the flex and see how the new spacers worked and halfway up the ramp i heard a quick snap and got out to see that my Rancho RS5000 snapped off right at the mount. GREAT..... it isn't a big job at all to replace those shocks but at $55 a pop it sucks because I also have to wait 3 days for them to come in and I have to reo the bushings in the shock to make them fit my pathy. They are Rancho RS5000's for a 2000 Ford F250 RWD V8 with a 4" lift. They are very good shocks and perform very well but has anyone had this problem of it breaking like that? Maybe I tightened the bolt holding it on to much?

So my tires stick out a good 3-4" and I got a warning from the cops the other day.... I have been looking around for the longest time and can't seem to find fender flares; I do not want to take the rubber garden lining and rivet it to my fenders because I hate the way it looks. I have searched fender flare making companies such as bushwacker and such with no luck... they sell stock looking replacements but those dont have coverage either. I have heard of the idea of getting flares for like a yota truck or a 4runner and cutting your fenders to fit the flares but am wary of doing so because I do not know if it will work, but I guess I will never know unless I try, so does anyone have any input or has anyone had this problem and prevaled? BTW I have 34x10.5x15 TSL Swampers on my R50 with 6" of lift.

I looked under it last night and the bushings for the lower arms look good and the arms don't look bent, the upper arm on the driver side looks like the bushing could use some replacing and the upper on the passenger side where the wheel is close to the running board doesn't look like much bushing is there, so After doing some research in the pinned section of the forum I think I just need to put some new poly bushings in the uppers and should be ok, I can always do the lowers which are much easier to do down the road. And I put a 1" leveling rubber spacer in the rear because my custom springs have finally sagged to where they are going to be and the back was 1.5" lower than than the front which I have a 4" SFD in.

So yesterday after getting a 1" leveling kit put into my pathy and test driving it, it was making a sound like the tire was rubbing on the passenger rear side; I got out and my axle looked kinda weird, on the driver side between the axle and the running board I can fit almost 3 fingers between them, on the passenger side I can get 1 maybe 1-1/2.... It looks like my axle moved foreward on the passenger side? Could this be caused by the bushings in my 4link being bad?

those are my old 31 mud terrains, I now have 34x10.5x15 TSL Super Swampers....

Well I for one can tell you I wheel the sh@# out of my r50 and it takes every little bit I throw at it; I have 6" of lift and it gets through things that some jeeps don't.... also because I try them and then everyone else doesn't want to go after I did it. I have pulled out numerous jeeps, a couple yotas, and 2 landrovers.... don't get me wrong I have gotten stuck a few times myself, but I love the offroad capabilities of my R50. The only things that I have broke on mine was snapping my tie rod while rock climbing, the a/c compressor went out and I had to replace, and having to replace 1 CV after I tore the boot on the trail and filled it with mud.

http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/1839589332.html

Just saw this thing in NH and for a steal price.... looks like it might need a little work though... but built 60's are worth more than the asking price..... http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/1839589332.html

Definitly sounds like the MAF

http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=26996

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/96-97-98-99-NISSAN-PATHFINDER-3-3-AIR-A-C-AC-COMPRESSOR-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem562e903ea1QQitemZ370148392609QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories will this one work? Pretty cheap... also has anyone ever use those ac recharge cans from the auto parts store? how good do they work?

So it got upto 98 degrees today in nh so i decided to put my a/c on which i rarely do because of gas milage and hey its nh.... so i put it on and it worked great blowing ice cold air for about 15 minutes then it started blowing hot air so i decided maybe it needed a recharge because its been 2 years since i had it recharged, so i get home and hear this grinding sound coming from under my hood and low and behold the a/c pulley is barely moving and sounds like the bearings are shot..... I don't even know where to get a new compressor because it is hard enough to find parts for this truck on CL or a junkyard.... Anyone have any ideas? Also i have never done a compressor before, does anyone have a write up on this or some help? Thanks

They would fit with some trimming, and as for the lift you should get the KYB struts that come in the kit for $790.00 they are much better and go buy OEM upper strut mounts because the ones that come with the kit are junk.

What exactly happened? If you do not mind me asking?