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The rear defrost on my rig has not worked since I bought it. Today I dove into it. I checked this and that. Pulled relays, checked the grid, ran a different power wire. Still nothing. After all that, it was narrowed down to one side of the wires connecting to the grid. What it ended up being was just a ground that had corroded. I cut a little bit of wire off that was bad. Put a new eyelet on. The screw holding the ground on didn't tighted up properly, so I put a new screw in. It now works. The ground is on the passengers side. Where the ground mounted was painted. The only connection was the hole. I scraped the paint off around where the eyelet would sit. It should last for quite a while now.

That was my plan when hooking the fogs up. I have not purchased the lights yet. I don't want to spend $200. Hopefully I can find them on sale. I have a total of 3 hazard switches. The triangle doesn't light up on any of them. I'm still trying to find a way to light other bulbs I have that I can make fit into the hazard switch.

I searched with no luck. If there is a thread on this somewhere please point me to the proper place. I am planning on hooking up an extra set of fog lights. I want to use another hazard switch to turn them on. I will put it in the dash in the empty slot. I have found out which wires I need to make the switch operate properly. I want the light in the triangle to turn on when I turn the switch on. I have tried different ways of possibly truning on the light and it won't light up. Does anyone know what wires I need to use to make the triangle light up? I honestly don't know if the bulb is burned out. I grabbed a switch from the JY. I'm going to check the bulb tomorrow. I have a 95 Pathfinder.

The tire size could be limited to what one can pick up.

I don't know what driveability issues you are having. I was having an intermittent issue with mine. I cleaned this and checked that. I added an extra ground to the maf. I found that somehow the maf would drop the ground from time to time. I was having a stumble. It wouldn't idle well at times.

Now that I have the pic all squared away here it is.

So I had some time and good weather to finish the bar and install it. I like the low profile of it. It's there but not obtrusive.

I don't like being flashy with vehicles. The motorcycle is a different story. On the bike I want to be seen. I didn't want some monstrosity looking like it was taking over the front end. Keep it simple and effective. Now I really need to finish up the bar and get it mounted before winter hits, just in case. It should give me a bit more of extra protection. I hope so anyway. Once I have it painted and mounted I will post up a few pics. The pics will be without the led fog lights I want to get. I'm waiting for them to hopefully go on sale.

With an auto trans have you cleaned out the transmission cooler? That is the cause of a lot of transmission deaths. The cooler gets clogged and no fluid goes through it. No cooling and the tyranny burns up. I would look at that. Also when was the last time you changed your fuel filter? Some vehicles have been known to have "tyranny" issues that was nothing more than a fuel filter.

I believe they will work. Yes there will be modifications. I want to do it. I know that you will need a spot weld cutter to take the brackets off and re-weld them to the body. I think the bezel around the bracket is removable, off of the donor vehicle, not sure. I have not found a suitable donor yet.

Compared to the dash in my car the pathfinder is easy. Yes the squeak drove me that crazy. I'm glad I found it. If I didn't find it after all that I would be a bit upset.

I'm sure you have already swapped them out. Did you check out the lower ball joint? When I replaced my shafts the ball joints were bad.

I have been driving around for a bit now and I can report that the squeak is gone. Knock on wood. That makes my brain not hurt as much compared to when the squeak was in control.

Not new inserts. I wasn't sure how the paint would last so I didn't want to paint them and have issues. The extra set is in case something happens. As for the break around the spot welds I really have no idea why it did that. I have never had any issues that would make me think the welds would not hold. I cross my fingers that I fixed the issue. You have no idea how nice it is not having that squeak anymore. Almost as good as sex.

The hood wobbles some. I have a broken rubber stop for the hood. The things on the core support that adjusts where the hood stops. Not sure of the name. The face lift is done so far. I still have to finish up my push guard and put it on. At first glance you probably won't notice anything different, maybe you will. The bumper and the grill were sun beaten really bad. To the point that the plastic was pitting some. How long will it last? I don't know. It looks way better than the faded mess it was before. I used SEM trim black. If it gets a chip I can just touch up and be done. Etching primer on the bumper first. Anyway I wanted to keep this low tech. I have access to a gun but I didn't want to mess with all that.

I took the bumper off to reinforce it. I welded the cross bars to the brackets that bolt to the frame. You don't see it in the pic. It isn't a lot but compared to the flimsy bumper I think it will be sufficent.

I will notice a slight shake from time to time but I think that might be the road. I am working on a face lift for the Pathfinder. When I am done I will post a pic up. I figured since I had the fenders off anyway I might as well deal with the faded paint on the bumper and grill. It looks different with the different color compared to the faded paint.

I have pulled the passengers side fender and there are a couple cracks. Not as bad as the drivers side. I'm adding some welds in hopes that it will keep it from cracking more. The rear fender mounting, next to the windshield, was cracked almost up to the top of the fender. I welded that up.

I finally got really tired of the squeak and tore into my Pathfinder to find it. I could push on the dash and it would go away. So with that assumption I took the dash out. Still had a squeak. I took other pieces out 1 by 1 hoping to find the cause of the squeak. Couldn't find it. The drivers fender had been replaced before I bought the Pathfinder. I figured that would be my next thing to take off. After I got the dash back in I took the fender off. Sure enough I found the cause of the squeak. The metal had broken around the spot welds. I could tap on the body with the fender off and hear the squeak. I put vise grips on where it was squeaking and drove it, no squeak. I have not driven it since I welded it up. I can bang on the body and I don't hear a squeak. I believe I got it. The pic, on the left is the windshield and the right is toward the front of the rig. You can see where I got rid of the paint to weld. All 3 places were cracked. The one to the right in the pic went all the way to where it meets the fender. Probably 2-3 inches long. I welded and took down the weld so the fender would bolt back up. I took the passenger fender off to check and there is 1 spot that is cracked. I will deal with that tomorrow. Anyway here is the pic. I hope this helps some of you because I imagine mine is not the only one that has cracked.

WTF?

That is up to you if it is worth fixing. Depends on your money situtation. Do you have another vehicle or were you waiting for the Pathfinder to die then get something else? If you fix it yourself you probably can get parts fairly cheap at the wreckers if you wait for sale days. Then your time to put it back together, unless you have a shop do it. If a shop does it they will want to replace everything. Balljoints, bushings, shocks, probably tie rod ends. That is probalby the only way a shop will let it leave, if they even want to mess with it. It would cost more for a shop to do it. Weigh the good and bad and deceide. These types of decisions are never fun.

Wait the tach is working................................Awwww it stopped working again.

The lower piece was the same 3/16" plate. The material I bought was not long enough so I welded 2 pieces together. I used the same 3/16" plate to go where the tow hook mounts. It is a brace that is mounted pretty well. I wanted to keep it simple. If you are not looking for it I doubt most people would notice. Here is a side pic. If you measure off the center of the bumper the plate sticks out about 2 1/4" off the bumper.

Your tach doesn't work.

With the shock off does it sit level? If not look at torsion bar or brackets like Kingman mentioned. The shock only keeps the suspension from excessive bounce.