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Stick with your open diff's if you never plan to off-Road. Otherwise, go ARB lockers all the way for the Rear. That's what I'm doing this week.
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Warn Hubs?
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It really sounds like an exposed wire that is rubbing against the chasis (ground). Check those roof lights you installed and make sure there are no breaks in the wire touching ground. This would blow a fuse.
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Wow, great write up Rick!
Please let me know what you find out about the rear springs. Was going to order up the 4" WJ springs but after what you said, looks like i might have to go with the 6.5" springs and maybe cut them down to get the 6" i'm looking for in the rear. I just don't want that racked look in the back and no vibration. Keep us posted on your findings and let us know what the right cut will be to make it perfect.
Tim
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It will be the 4" WJ springs which will give it a 5.5" lift in the rear with the WJ adapters. All is good.
Hope it doesn't look to racked in the front with the .5" difference in the rear. LOL.
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So would the 6.5" springs be ok to run in the rear then? Do you guys think it will look to racked up in the back as opposed to the front?
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Привет с Сахалина, фото зачет...
Regards from Sakhalin, photo the test
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Today I purchased my SFD 4" lift from Krypton Fabrications. I was advised the following from Andrew at Krypton.
In regards to the lift springs, iron rocks offroad carries 3" Jeep WJ rear lift springs which will match a 4" lift on the front of your pathfinder. If you are lifting a total of 6" in the front, I would recommend using the 5.5" lift springs they carry for the WJ.
I checked out the website and found this. It goes up to 6.5" but not a 5.5" inch spring. What did you guys go with since I can't use the springs from the AC 2" lift i have now?
WJ Rear Coil Spring (pair)
Quantity in Basket: None
Code: IR-WRCSP
Price: $149.99
Desired Lift Height: 3"
4" (add $5)
6.5" (add $15)
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Don't worry about that front bumper, it's battle damage. LOL. You can replace it with a steel one for off-road use.
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Where have you been Offtour roadie ???You can fix that rear end from drooping by installing an air lift. I have one in mine and it works great. Check out 4x4parts.com and then also get the air compressor.
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Could be a strut bearing.
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From my experience, you can't go up a hill with the O/D off towing a trailer that's around 3,500 lbs or drive on the freeway at 60 mph, it really bogs down the engine. You need to keep the RPMs up above 2,000. I actually do have electric brakes on the trailer and using a prodigy electric brake controller with no problems on brake fade.
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I haven't towed anything heavier than a pop-up tent trailer with our R50. That was easy, but not much over 2k lbs with gear.
WIth other vehicles I have owned the common theme I heard was "don't tow in OD" to save your trans. This was with GM vehicles and was doable since the axle gears in GMs are typically higher than in pathfinders (3.42:1 vs 4.363:1 for example). To not use OD in the pathy I think the revs would be very high on the freeway and tolerable but kinda high on regular highways. Any thoughts on that? A pathy auto trans is not cheap.
I'm towing an enclosed 12x6 trailer and always use the OD with no problems. Otherwise your constantely on the gas.
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Or a 2" lift kit or SFD with good rims and tires. You won't get much more performance out of that engine with just simple add ons. The engine is great like it is.
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I got more lift out of the AC springs and very happy with the results. It will drive different however, not that soft ride down the road anymore FYI. You will love it. Now the next step is the SFD to get a total 6" of lift. LOL.
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I clean the under carriage after every run. Here is a great way to make it black. I use WD-40 and it makes the black under-carriage and even the wheel wells even blacker.
Have fun
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If only you were not so far away lol. Driving to El Paso is like driving to a different state basically lol.
LOL, really. I was going to ask you earlier silvapathy if you had any plans to come out west. We have some great runs with a bunch of technical hills that will flex that pathy well.
Or i might come out your way LOL, need advice on that SFD i'm about ready to purchase from Kryptonics. How long did you wait for the kit?
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^ neat info but nit exactly relevant to the topic at hand.
O.P. My personal experience I would personally suggest calling around your local exhaust shops. A good pipe bender can make whatever sound you want and make the tip(or tips if dials are your flavor) exit wherever you wish (within reason). I'd pesronally prefer a nice made right setup over a boxed multi piece bolt on kit anyway
My apologies for going off topic here, need to create a pinned post on CB antenna placements since I have a lot of experience with CB Radios since the 80's and 90's. Just noticed the picture and couldn't resist on providing some positive feedback that could help. Will move this to another section. Thanks Nunya.
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On my phone so I ain't trying to link but it's in the pics/videos section
Thanks Nunya, found the section and just posted my "sexy flexy" pic of the day.
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Thanks, need to post some more. That run we went on yesterday was amazing. Need to get more Pathy owners involved over here. Most of these guys all have Jeeps.
Couldn't find that "Sexy Flexy" section on the forum. Anyone have the link available?
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I bought mine with only 4 miles on it, a 1998 SE R50 which was about $29K at that time.
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Howdy! I was wondering, if anyone knew a good site or brand that will have an exhaust set up for the 98. I've looked around at like, magnaflow, borla, flowmaster adn none of them have a set up for my year model, which is frustrating haha.
Thanks for any feedback!
I noticed based on the picture of your R50 that you are running dual fiberglass antennas. If you take constructive criticism well, please read my following post.
There is a lot of mis-information floating around out there about dual antennas and their purpose or performance.
The place you normally see dual antennas is on the big rigs. The antennas are normally mounted on the mirrors on either side of the truck. The reason large trucks use this configuration is because the size and shape of the cab and/or trailer would block the signal of one antenna mounted on one side of the truck. If for example they only had one antenna on the drivers side of the truck, much of their signal would not radiate out from the passenger side of the vehicle reducing their signal in that direction. The dual antennas create an effective way for large trucks to radiate a signal on both sides of their vehicle. This type of configuration also creates a front-to-back type of radiating pattern so that signal is emphasized to the front and the back of the truck which in the case of a trucker traveling down a long highway is a good thing.
To achieve the best radiating pattern dual antennas should be placed a 1/2 wave apart when installing. This is roughly 204 inches apart. The average width of a tractor/trailer is 102" which doesn't come close to meeting the proper spacing but because of their specific problems a dual antenna setup can be effective.
Dual antennas for most vehicles is not a practical venture as you can not place them far enough apart to maximize the dual antenna gain or radiating effect. An example would be the any vehicle where the dual antennas are mounted only 81 inches from each other. A number of things were done that would create problematic signal radiation. Antennas that are not above the height of the vehicle. They are mounted close to the vehicle body which would cause unwanted signal reflection, and they are mounted on the very back of the vehicle making the vehicles signal very directional)
Hope this helps.
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That is correct, you need 4 on each side to get the camber correctly set.
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Had some fun out in the desert today outside of El Paso, TX.
CB antenna mount options on rear of car
in 96-2004 R50 Pathfinders
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Here is a clean way to install a CB Radio Antenna. I purchased a rear hatch bracket specifically for the SUV.
After it was tunned, I'm getting less than 0.1 SWR on channel 20 and less than .5 on channel 40.
I would highly recommend not using dual antennas on any vehicle except for a large truck with Mirrors that extend out (SEMI Trucks). Read up on it and you will know why.
I routed the cable through the gromet behind the left rear break light. Works perfect and it's clean. You will need someone who knows how to solder a PL-259 Connector since you will need to route the cable itself through the gromet and then solder on a new connector.
Let me know if you have any questions on this install. Works great and gets good reception. Of course the best place for an antenna is center on top of the vehicle if you want to drill a hole.