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I'm mostly worried about the electrical... Engine will be here next week... I'll probably go down and see if I can pull an ECU about monday. Am I going to run into any electrical issues or is it pretty straight forward...??

I'm putting the whole engine in as is... Have a look, get an idea of what I'm dealing with. http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=26929 So you're saying I'm going to need 2 oxygen sensors...?? Correct?

I'm gunna go down and get an ecu from the pick and pull down the way. And I can get the oxygen sensor from any autoparts store I'm sure.

Just bought a VG30E engine from oxford for my '88 pathy. Just wanted to hear from anybody who's already done this. Tips, suggestions, things I should do while the old engine is out... That sort of thing.

I found it! The code is pinned in the 'Parts for sale' section...

Cool... Thank you, I'll check that out. How would I go about getting the 5% discount?

Where might I go about getting a new set of bushings...??

Yeah I noticed from looking at the other side that there were some pieces missing from the tension rod (thanks for giving me the name). I know I need a new tension rod and bushings, but do I have to fix the ovalled out hole? Or will the new bushings compensate for that? My dad is a pretty good welder so if we have to we can fix it... I'm just not sure what the best way to go about it is...

Soooooo... I just got all my paperwork sorted out and finally got my pathy on the road. So of coarse I took it out for a spin! As I'm going down the road I start to hear this terrible squeaking whenever i make a turn, accelerate kinda rapidly, or after I let off the brake at a stop sign or what have you. So i figured the responsible thing to do would be to get back home and figure out where it's coming from instead of just ignoring it. So that's just what I did. I got my dad to help me search for the source while I pushed up and down on my brush guard to get it to squeak. After about 30 seconds or so it was easy to see that the squeaking was for sure coming from the front driver's side wheel area and nowhere else. Upon further inspection I was getting quite a lot of travel on a piece that I don't even know what to call... Here's a picture of the bar and of where it goes... If anybody knows what to call this thing I'd sure like to know... So I'm not just calling it "that broken piece of $hit"... Anyway here's a few more pictures of the damage... Has anybody had problems with this before?? Suggestions on how to fix? Anything...? Any advice, help, suggestions, would be greatly appreciated... Oh, and on a side note, I also found this completely disconnected... I also don't really know what to call it...

Well from what i read in the frequently asked questions section I learned that my dead fuel and temp guages were almost definitely a result of a faulty voltage regulator. So i pulled out my dash cluster and had a look around. The voltage regulator (here forth referred to as VR) was pretty easy to spot, it's located in the top right corner when you turn the dash cluster around and are looking from the back. I gave it a quick test with my multimeter (black to negative of a new 9 volt battery, yellow to positive, blue to positive test lead of multimeter, and negative test lead to negative of battery) I found that the little bugger was only giving me about 3.5 volts, having followed the traces on the back of the cluster and finding out I need 8 volts going to the gauges, this VR is shot for sure. For reference the black wire is ground, blue is Vout (voltage out), and yellow is Vin (voltage in). With that I headed over to radioshack. As I'm perusing the component parts section I discover they only carry 5VDC VRs and 12VDC VRs. However given further investigation i notice they also have adjustable VRs. Great, so it's definitely do-able i'm just going to need a few extra parts. I end up getting the adjustable VR, a pack of 5 100 ohm 1/2 watt resisters (only need one), and a 1K ohm trimmer (basically an adjustable resistor up to 1k ohms), I also pick up a little 2"x2" PCB to put everything on. Now in order to get the VR to 8VDC I'm going to need to wire the 100 ohm from the adjust leg of the VR to the Vout leg, and the trimmer from the adjust leg to ground. The trimmer needs to be set at 540 ohms in order for the VR to put out 8 volts. Another important thing to note is that the trimmer has 3 legs, one of which is called the wiper (the back of the bag it came in will tell you which leg it is). The wiper needs to be shorted to one of the other two legs, it doesn't really matter which, and from then out it will act like a regular resistor except now it's adjustable. I wired that all up on the PCB and connected it back to the cluster, being sure each wire went to it's appropriate place, and popped the whole thing back in the pathy. Grab my keys and turn her on, and all of a sudden my fuel gauge springs to life! Turns out I got a little over half a tank. As i let her run and warm up, my temp gauge slowly starts to rise as well! Cool all fixed, on to bigger and better things. Like figuring out why she idles so high and sporadically after she does get warmed up.

Nvm... Figured it out all by myself. =P

Does anyone have a copy of the Solution2.pdf? I'd really like to get my poor gauges functional... =[