JamesRich

If you put larger rear brakes and then add a proportioning valve, did you really gain anything? James

If your that good at it take a little road trip and come visit south central louisiana, and I'll let you fix mine! I'll buy you some beer and boudin! James

Cool thanks man! I need to do this too. I don't have to wedge anything under the lever to make it stay on but sometimes I have to wiggle it to get it to stay on. Thanks for exploring this for us, because I'm lazy and would have just kept wiggling it. James

Also A good excuse to finish the absolut! James

Just remember if you add a spring to the bottom of the antenna it will change your SWRs and you will need to get the antenna retuned. James

If its your neighbor that ratted you out I hope you were pounding with that sledge in the middle of the night! I would get all my buddies to pass by his house and fill his front yard with junk car parts! this is why I don't live in a restricted neighborhood, I would have gone to jail a few times by now. James

Drums are enclosed but thats the problem when offroading in mud, it gets in but not out. The ebrake on rear disk brakes are a little drum inside the rotor, so they would have less holding power than a full sized drum. If you put rear disk from a larger truck it will just make the rear brake prone to locking up when you stop fast. Now if you put larger brakes all the way around you will have something. Try looking at 08 on up titans, the caliper setup in the front is very similar to the pathy. The rotor setup is totally different though. Not sure if all the bolts for the calipers will line up but could be simple upgrade. And you would be sticking with Nissan! 08 titan had the third and largest upgraded brake setup. I have been told that 07 and up silverado brakes would fit the front of a titan but I never verified that. James

Maybe it's a Canadian thing because on mine the vacuum comes from the engine to the actuator. I would think the only trucks with a separate vacuum pump would be trucks with diesel motors. James

X2 both of mine were broken. I replaced them with some of those plastic rivets used to hold plastic guards under most import cars. Also my vacuum line was broken off. It is a very tiny line so it probably wont make a difference in how the motor runs so you might not notice. James

Your doing better than me, my garage is the small slab you see my truck parked on in my sig pic. Advice, don't move on your father in laws property if he is an ass hole! I waisted a lot of my time and money there just to give it up and move away. (before I killed him!) The wife is just lucky I brought her with me. I am kind of attached to her after 20 years. Try mounting a 18" low pro 10" wide motorcycle tire! I fought it for a while and it took several harsh words but I wasn't going to pay $30 per tire without balancing or removing from the bike. If I had to go through the pain in the ass to remove it from the bike (shaft drive) I might as well change out the rubber too. I haven't found a bead yet that a high lift jack wont break!

Cool thats what I needed to know! Do you go in mud often? My truck will be in the poo all through hunting season. Oh and trailchaser I ain't screwing with this one, it's already mounted and rollin. James

I was going to make my own too. I got the bearings and have some 4140 round stock, but working 60 hours a week and 8 hours on Saturday I don't have the time so I just ordered the proven one. The only thing left to make it a perfect centerlink would have been a grease zerk. Unless he is using a different bearing than the ones I got. Mine have channels for grease so all it would have taken was a properly placed hole for a zerk to grease them. I'm sure they will last a while like they are though, what kind of life are you guys getting with y'alls? James

I thought even plastic knives were illegal there! Y'all come on down to Louisiana we got plenty of room and you can own damn near anything you can afford. You can even buy a machine gun and silencer if you pay your taxes and do the paper work. And work right now the oil field is crazy, I'm back to working 60 hours a week! James

Busy or not when he sent me the email a week ago asking how many links I sent him it would have only taken 5 more minutes to log into paypal and send my refund. It's all good now, the cores were delivered 15 days ago and maybe a coincidence but at 2 O'Clock yesterday, 8 hours after I posted this I got my refund. So now I can just enjoy my grassroots centerlink. Pathy drives nice and tight now. James

How long does it take for Brian at grass roots to refund the core deposit? I sent him an extra core that I picked up in a scrap yard which he told me in an email he would pay $25 for. After a week I emailed him and asked him for my deposit and he claimed he never received my cores. I forwarded the email with the tracking number saying it was delivered to his front door and he agreed they were delivered but still claimed he never got them. Then he asked how many I sent so he could send the refund. Over a week now and still no refund in my paypal. I don't want to discredit this guy but it sure looks like he is trying to screw me! James

I ordered my WD21 bumper from KMA in May and still waiting. Yours is going to look awesome mounted up! I hope they don't take too much longer with mine, hunting season is just a couple of months away and I need to open up a few trails so the pathy will fit where I need it to go! James

If the reservoir is over full (and you didn't over fill it) and the radiator is low you have a blown head gasket. Snap on sells a carbon monoxide detector to check for this. It uses a yellow fluid that turns blue when it detects carbon monoxide. Might be the other way around, been a long time since I used mine. The engine will run fine but slowly loose coolant. James

I got one of the Smitty Built XRC8. It's still sitting in the shed waiting for my KMA bumper to get here, one day!

Yes I know that but when the vacuum is low the MAP sensor tells the ECM that the engine is under a heavy load and should let the trans stay in a lower gear to help out. At least that is how it works on American made vehicles. I haven’t done any computer work on any Nissans because there computers system hardly ever have problems. James

It's nice to have machining skills! James

You can check for a plugged cat with a vacuum gauge, but you would have lost power if the cat was plugged. It does sound like you have low vacuum if the tranny is taking longer to shift though. Also pull the vacuum hose off of the fuel pressure regulator while its running and look for fuel in the vacuum port. I've seen this problem on a few older Nissan's. The diaphragm starts leaking and lets fuel into the vacuum side. On a 85 300z the fuel was actually dripping out of the exhaust. James

The stock alternator will charge any size battery as long as you are not drawing more off of it than the alternator can put in. How does it fit? Pics? James

Definitly a collapsed lifter. Check your oil pressure too, make sure it's not low at idle. James

Sounds to me like a collapsed lifter. You should have revved it a few times in the video. A main or rod knock would be a lot deeper. Pull your rocker covers and see what you find. Don't start it with the covers off though overhead cams sling alot of oil! If nothing looks obvious pull on each rocker arm then turn the engine a little and pull on them again. James

Yes I made a set of upper ball joint spacers to try and get the front high enough to match the rear with the AC 3" lift springs. They will help it go higher but I knew the CVs wouldn't survive long. So I pulled the AC springs and got some jeep springs. The deepest water I should ever be in is 1 1/2 to 2 feet so I don't need to be that high anyway. James