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wheres it located and what are the specs? do you check it with a voltmeter?

I took it to a shop today and the guy suggests we start with new plugs, cap rotor and fuel filter. did he miss the part where I said we already did that a week ago? so I'm intantly put off. then he says the vacuum leak is probably coming from between the head and intake manifold and it will all have to come apart and be milled down and put back together. um?

its been like this since I got it. runs rough. lacks low end power. feels like its missing. we pulled one spark plug wire at a time and they all made a noticable difference. checked each wire for good spark while we were at it. checked the timing, its dead on too. smells a lil like unburnt fuel. check engine light comes on sometimes. i check the ecu and get code 55 which is "no error". where do I check next? it drives around town fine, but going uphill its just gutless as all heck. someone suggested a compression check next. hoping the head gasket isnt blown between cylinders...

http://maxima.theowensfamily.com/tsb/NTB99-020c.pdf whew! I was scared for a minute. says here flat towing a manual tranny is OK. auto trannys BIG no no. I knew stick shifts were good for something!

uh oh. Ill have to look at that. what if I put the tcase in neutral as well?

So i picked it up and towed it home by the bumper mounted towbar. works great. its ugly, but functional, which is all that REALLY matters I guess. the bars are a lil low, but not across the headlights like I thought. across the top maybe, but not covering too much. they welded some big tabs on the face of the bumper for the towbar to hook up to, and it works. the way they welded the angles on the bumper you cant really tuck it back any further, and it does have the winch sitting back there too, so not so bad all in all. if its gonna be ugly, i'll make it really ugly, with big D-rings and tow hooks and a receiver port, all that. lol

till i see it in person, I wont know for sure. but it just looked to me like the bars go across the lights. and we all know those headlights are dim to start with. lol

well, they have a bender, but I wanted to keep the squared off look, so I asked them not to bend the tubes actually. Ill look at these "stingers" you have mentioned. they called to have me come pick it up, so I guess Ill see what they finished up with. (sigh)

Its a customs shop, they have all sorts of cool stuff around in different stages of being built. I think, from the looks of it, its welded right to the big metal support under the radiator? not sure. haven't seen it in person. it maybe looks like they welded the rectangle tubing right to the frame extensions where the bumper stays bolt on. at least those are designed to crumple on impact. (from what Ive seen at the junkyards, lol)

what about making it a drift car? lower it way way down, throw a really riced out nissan motor in it. chop the top down low. that would be pretty wild, eh?

so, I didnt have a bumper. I searched all the junkyards and every pathy in the yard has been nosedived into something. I got all the parts BUT the center MAIN piece, and ordered it new. its like sheetmetal! what the heck? is that the way they are supposed to be? I wanted, needed, something stronger. anyways. a dude owed me a favor, so I gave him my metal leftovers from the "cage" build (lets not go there, lol) and he sends me this pic. ugh. crap. so. mannnnnn where to start? (yes, I know the winch is pathetic. its just for pulling racecars off trailers and stuff.) I have yet to see it in person. but it looks like the bars go across the headlights. which is retarded. Im wondering how to fix this problem without having the guy rebuild the whole thing? maybe make a second beam out of square tube at the bottom and stack this on top of it? this time I welcome criticism. this thing in my opinion is ridiculous. Ill use this info to pass along to the guy who built it.

yeah, it has the same 2x4 steel across the top of the front and middle pillars. I dont park it outside, so there wont be rain on it except for when I'm driving it. I drove it a few miles last night, BRRRR! and the think flaps a lil, sounds like a deep fryer as it slaps the tops of the flat cross beams. poppity pop pop pop! I think some people missed the other thread where I showed the cages progress. I said the cage was "almost done" it's NOT done. theres always room for improvement. even once I think its done, Ill still prolly wanna add to it here and there. the SHAPE is done, thats about it. were adding cross supports to the floor with plates at the frame mounts and side to side supports that will double as grab bars for rear-seat passengers and somewhere to put the 5-point harness. hope that clears things up. thanks! funny thing is no one bashed me when it had no roof at all! we posted the video of mud bogging and stuff, during the build, "wow, cool, neat, I want one!" etc... then I START building a cage and every other wanna-be welder comes out of the woodwork telling me what a crappy person I am.lol. go figure.

I'll check that out!

Dude! Ive been lookng everywhere for a passenger side corner marker light! got this guys number? lol

Thanks Andy.

did you check out the website?

Dunno yet. nothing fancy, might bust out the airbrush and just play around. I'm obviously not trying to win any car shows, or trying to impress anyone. so just something I'll have fun doing. the interior panels are a material called Alupanel. it's a sandwich of aluminum, with expanded PVC in the middle. Its used as a rigid substrate for signs. I used the stock door panels to get the shape for those panels. the rear panels arent as easy. they arent flat like the doors, and its all weird shapes. the bottoms of the rear panels are ok, but the tops still need trimmed up to be even with the side rails. I made a cardboard template and it was close enough to quit for the day, then I never got back to it. I need to draw new lines and trim the panels up. then again I might start over once I get them cut to the right shape, cuz the speaker holes are a little off too.

I dunno where The upholsterer got it. He does a lot of boat tops, might check with those supply houses. Ill show a close up of the parts. theres two parts, a long channel thats riveted to the roof, and a long bead that the fabric is sewn to. the bead slides into the channel. pretty sweet application.

it snaps on, and the front slides into a channel. so you can roll it up and slide it out of the channel if you want it off of there. I was going to have the guy incorporate buckles up front so it could roll up without having to be slid out of the channel, but forgot to mention that. I hadnt really considered just having the front and middle seats just covered n stuff, but its possible, theres snaps every 6 inches along the way, just have to clamp the vinyl top or something. as for the negative comments, eh, whatever. I dont care. If you can judge these welds, or the structural integrity of this setup through pictures, then you have some serious talent. dude painted his pathfinder pink and is flicking me @!*%? wow. ok. For someone with some unconventional ideas of his own, I wouldnt got bashing others. lol

well, so much for any positive comments. see ya later. other people are right, this board is full of a bunch of assholes.

if "home made pillars" equals 2x4 .120 wall steel then, ok. the top halo is 2" tube, and across the tops of each "home made pillar" is more of the 2x4 steel. its "mounted to the sheet metal" via laser cut and formed caps over the pillars, made of 1/4" plate steel and welded all the way around as well as up any seams. I'm pretty confident that it's stronger than the stock roof. I didn't think a post about the new rag top was going to turn into a pissing match over the roll bar. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. just like everyone has the right to come off to a newbie as a total asshole. that's your right, and you exercised it.

that's why you have your OWN pathfinder to do with as YOU please. lol everythings getting painted, dont worry about it. and PSSSST.... I'm not building a show truck.

So, I own a graphics and sign shop here, and an Upholstery guy cam in needing business cards and some other stuff, so I traded his services for mine. SWEET! I chopped the whole roof off my 95 pathfinder and built a cage in its place, but in oregon it rains a lot, and was tired of getting soaked at speeds under 25mph. I had steve build me this rag top for the pathy. freaking sweet. i can unsnap it and roll it up to the front and slide it out of the channel or whatever I like. I think it really finishes it off. now for paint, right?

Leather yes, and heated seats too! Did have AC, before I took it out. Wish the heat worked better, its stuck on defrost and for some reason its a bit drafty too, dunno why. Sag? the body didnt sag, it seems lower in the rear than in the front, I dont know if the previous owners torked up the torsion bars or if the butt end is dragging. the doors work fine. the back doors were a bit floppy before we welded the roll cage up to the middle pillars, now its more solid than new.

so we got the cage welded in, mostly. still gotta do all the criss cross stabilizers, but with the size tubing and stuff we used so far its built way better than the original roof was. the door panels are cut from "alupanel" its a really cool sign material we use at the sign shop. its thin aluminum on both sides with plastic in the middle. its like 1/8th inch thick overall, and comes painted white already. were taking it to the dunes in a month, so I gotta get crackin!