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Hi folks,
Earlier today (well, for a few days actually) I've been hearing "strange" noises from the engine bay. Strange being defined as anything outside of the normal engine sounds. Couldn't find it but I noticed my fan was wobbling a little. With the engine stopped, you can actually move it around quite a bit, about an inch of play in there. Looks like I'll need a new fan bearing, but I'm kind of concerned now that my fan will disintegrate on me when I'm on my way to the shop...
Possible? Or am I being too paranoid?
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Great music man, that was cool. This looks just like driving in the Philippines except a little less chaotic and there's no blue two stroke smoke wafting down the street...Nice videos and I like that dash cam, that's cool. What kind of cam is that? Jakarta looks cool man. How's the cost of living over there? Dollar changed into _____ for how many _____ ?? The Philippines is about 42 pesos to a dollar and a typical plate of rice and entree with a drink at an eatery probably costs 300 to 600 pesos.
The music is what's in my CD player in the car
It records audio too, generally I tend to avoid the bits where I'm cursing up a storm >.>No blue two stroke smoke? Well, okay, not where I usually go but in town there's plenty. Also black cloud of diesel burps. And... other stuff. No idea what kind of cam it is to be honest, picked it up at a mall for about 500.000 rupiah, which would be about 50 US dollars. It's some made-in-China thing... but good enough
Cost of living is pretty good, it's currently (according to xe.com) 11.000 odd rupiah to the dollar, and I can get myself a rice dish with some drinks for about 20.000 to 25.000 - to put it in perspective, an upsized double cheeseburger at McD runs about 55.000 rupiah
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Want to see a truckers dash cam, you tube under trucker csm, he has some good shots. My wife and I have a full time dash cam in our rig. One day will try and find the video of a horse running down the road at the battle of the little big horn monument, he had a rope around his neck and it had his front leg caught up in the air like a cast, it shows that three legged horse still running around me like I was standing still. He JUST didn't get it, I was trying to help him, finally an Indian cop showed up and freed him. Don't you have cow's running around free roaming? That could be fun, like an elk running out with out warning. Ouch LOL. Keep up the cams and keep your rubber side down.
Thanks! Good channel indeed
We get here (next to the road, on the road, etc.) in no particular order:
- goats
- dogs
- small children
- old ladies
- twigs
Okay, twigs might not be a big deal however... a pothole that's gotten a bit too big to handle is usually marked by jamming a branch with some leaves on it into it. Similarly, broken down vehicles usually have a branch with a bunch of leaves stuck to their rear bumper.
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Dude! That traffic congestion is crazy! Makes me glad I live in the country. I start getting irked if there are more than three cars in front of me.
That's how it is in Jakarta, it's predicted to be entirely gridlocked by 2020, and it's not far off. It can take over 3 hours to travel 10km or so. Generally I'll jump on a motorcycle taxi (well... just a dude with a cycle who wants to make some cash) if I want to get somewhere fast. The car's mainly used to haul dem groceries, and if I feel particularly masochistic to just drive around.
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I read an interesting article in Overland Journal about driving in India. It seems like there are no rules there and everyone who can afford it, drives dented up fancy cars. but since traffic never goes faster than about 40Kph (24mph +/_) most fender benders never result in injuries. rules be damed.
Similar, but not quite, down here. Rules be damned indeed, unless there's a cop watching in which case nobody wants to be the first to break a rule because the cop will want his cigarette money. Then there's the thing that there are in fact pretty decent toll roads on which you get a variety of traffic, just imagine if you will...
- A 6 lane tollroad, 3 one way, 3 the other, with a concrete barrier in the middle. Similar to what you find in the USA
- An 80km/h speed limit (give or take 45mph) that nobody keeps
- Left lane (slow lane) filled with a variety of trucks in various state of delapidation that generally can't drag their old carcasses above 40km/h
- Middle lane filled with faster trucks and anyone that's busy taking it easy
- Fast lane filled with people that want to go faster but can't on account of some of the middle-lane dwellers taking a dip into the fast lane and never leaving
- All lanes occupied by people that are going faster (some ridiculously so) and are basically skipping from hole to hole.
Now add in that during weekends most people that have drivers (and most do, I'm a notable exception as a foreigner that doesn't employ a driver... I want to live, however) and give said driver the weekend off. Sunday drivers mixed in with all of the above will drive you insane the first few months you're driving alone.
Unfortunately the toll roads see their fair share of fatalities; in town it's rarely anything more than damaged panels and pride, on the toll road... well, it's just not pretty at times. Usually it involves minivans with 10+ people crammed inside getting it by way of a reckless speeder or truck. Or drunk drivers, since there is no explicit driving under the influence law here (there's a law against driving whilst distracted which is usually used for prosecution though). Leads to some truly horrific accidents.
For example, a woman called Afriyani spent all night partying with her BFF's, got drunk, took some drugs, and went home through the city doing upwards of 90km/h in the morning; she lost control, and plowed through a group of people on the sidewalk. Or the 16 year old who was given a high performance car by his rockstar dad who lost control on the toll road and ended up pretty much decapitating a people carrier. 8 fatalities. The kicker: rockstar dad blamed the driver of the people carrier and the toll road operator. (note of interest: official age for getting your license here is 18).
Then there's the usual bit of badly maintained buses losing their brakes and going off cliffs/through other vehicles/into houses.
All in all, there's the reason for having a dashcam. To cover my own ass, basically, and god forbid I record an accident on it to hopefully be able to submit it as evidence so the proper people get banged up behind bars for a while.
P.S. I'm aware my own driving style isn't the most civilized either; but that's how it is. When in Rome... you must follow Roman ways, or you'll end up causing accidents real quick.
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Blues and classic rock.
And yeah, blues is very much alive here... I jam every saturday with a bunch of very talented musicians; for example...
(Title of the song: This is Jakarta Blues)
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Boy....I'm glad I don't drive an 18 wheeler over there, it's hard enough getting through Los Angeles, but that what you have going would likely be the death of my ability to remain calm and professional. I'm afraid I would have to run over a scooter or two before lunch every day. Wow !
I haven't actually done that yet, but I've had glorious fantasies about it... some motorcyclists deserve it, you see >.>
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Have another one! Surprise appearances by WD21 Pathfinders at the end of the video.
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Wrong side of the road? There's no such thing >.> (we drive on the left here, my car's right-hand drive
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I found it refreshing to see so few traffic lights. nothing creates smog like idleing cars. keeping traffic flowing is essential.
here in winterpeg we are plagued by stop signs at almost every intersection. or traffic lights were none are needed or they are timed so you can only drive a block before you are caught at a red again. sometimes it takes 20min to go 2km.
I cut out all the bits where I spent it sitting in traffic because it's boring as hell, but it's worse here. Yesterday I spent about 2 hours moving 500 yards down to the nearest intersection. That's gotten so common it doesn't even qualify as a wtf thing anymore
Will probably have a new one later on
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- First off, I was actually eating some popcorn while watching this!
- Secondly, thanks for uploading this it was cool to me to see other places.
- I could not tell for the first minute if Indonesia drove on the left side of the road or if the roads were all a free for all. The motorcycles do not seem to care what lane they are in or direction they are going!
- How many times has a motorcycle hit you? they just seem to jump out and cross your path without any care!
- Dont feel bad, they do not enforce fast/slow lane here in Texas either.
- Lastly, your truck sounds good!
Popcorn for lyfe!
Indonesia drives on the left, but as far as your observation goes, motorcyclists generally just don't give a damn. You'll even get the funny f*ckers who end up swapping lens colors on their lights so their rear is white and front is red. And then they'll be going against traffic on your side of the road; proper WTF moment that one.
I've been "hit" by motorcyclists more than I can count; the sheer amount of small dings, dents and scrapes in the sides of my pathy has gone beyond my ability to count. I've yet to actually unseat one or do any damage to motor or cyclist. One thing you learn real fast here is that reaction time can in fact be trained, and it's advisable to grow eyes in every appendage in every direction pretty much.
As far as sounding good, there's mixed opinions. It's just a Z24, but after the header it dumps into a straight 2" pipe, no cat, then to a muffler under the car, then out to the back to a nice dual tipped AMG free flow exhaust. It can, at times, sound like a fart cannon, but at low revs it's pretty palatable. Wasn't my choice but muffler shops here tend to lean heavily towards customisation like this, so if you need a new muffler or new exhaust, this is what you're getting, whether you like it or not
- First off, I was actually eating some popcorn while watching this!
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Here's my first attempt at one:
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Glad it was a pretty simple fix. Time to go back to that first place and get some sort of refund...
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Not going to happen
Hell will freeze over before I get one. Besides the total cost for the job was $20 so... not like I really want it back. It'd cost me more in gas to drive there than I'd get off the refund. I did call them and told the nominal manager type that the dude who rebuilt my carb shouldn't be let near any anymore. He said he'd sort it out, I believe him. Still not sure if it uses too much gas though; but I've done only city driving which involves a hell of a lot of stop and go. Guess i'll have to ask the Nissan dudes for a tuneup or something...
I also installed a dashcam recently so I may start doing a "pathy meets idiot road users" type thing soon
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Thought it was all done but nooo... not quite.
Was on the toll road the other day on the way to (irony of ironies) the Nissan workshop I usually go to to finally have the clutch replaced since I hadn't gotten around to it yet and to have them eyeball the carb. The carb got rebuilt by my (then local, now not so local since I moved last week) workshop but I had a feeling things weren't quite right. Indonesia being what it is, traffic built up real fast and for some strange reason I had the urge to be in the slow lane, and good thing it was too, next time I had to come to a stop the engine almost died, chugged at 100-odd rpm; turning on the AC real quick saved the day because it'll add a little extra gas, so rpms went to normal. For about 30 seconds, then it chugged out and died. Coasted to the shoulder and commenced my usual "jebus f'in bleep bleep bleep bleep bleeping bleep bleep" thing.
35C, right around noon, under the sun, does not make a good spot to start working on an engine. Luckily one of the toll road's many tow trucks happened to come by and the gents were kind enough to bend their rules (to the nearest toll road exit only) and towed me down to the nearest Nissan workshop. Did cost me 2 packs of smokes and 2 cups of coffee but hey, for that price...
At the Nissan workshop they found out what happened: the geezer that rebuilt the carb forgot to put the new gaskets in. He also forgot to put a gasket between the carb and the intake body. That's gotten fixed (had to wait 2 days for parts), and the car runs good now. I did get told it's probably better to get off the 85 octane gasoline and start using the 91 octane (unfortunately it's about $20 more for a full tank). Does make a nice difference though.
The only thing now is that there's a ticking noise coming from the valve cover, it seems. Not sure if it's a valve or a lifter that's gone kaka or whether it's the common exhaust rattle but... that'll have to get looked at.
One thing's for sure, with the amount of new stuff that went into the Pathy, it should hold up for at least another 5 years.
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Wow, that is pretty interesting and sounds like a lot of vehicular fun..I mean you guys have the worlds BEST excuse to randomly screw with your cars, it's a gear heads wet dream and no one's running around saying, "Hey stupid! Why you driving that old car?" Man..I'm so sick of people thinking that whatever is newest and most expensive must be better.
All I ever wanted was to have a garaged collection of all the coolest Japanese sports cars and 4x4 trucks from the 70s and 80s. 13Bs and 4TZE and VG30 oh my! I never knew Indonesia would be so interesting and recycling old car parts like that. So are you a national or ex-pat or what?
I've spent a little time in the Philippines as I'm married to a Filipina and they are pretty fly with their cars too, lots of recycled jeeps running around in a zillion different configurations but not like what you see here in the states...completely different...I'll try to find some pics. If my wife and I ever move there I might get to have a motorcycle again, they're everywhere over there but they're small cc compared to the murder missiles we have over here but in that place, 250 cc two stroke is hot stuff man, very fast.
It's like the Phillipines in that regard yeah, if it runs, it's used. When it stops running, it's made to run again. When it finally dies for good, it's scavenged and re-used. It still freaks me out though, being a foreigner down here, the things that people here do with cars from time to time >.> There's good and bad... the bad generally being what I see most of since well, it's rather obvious
They still have Toyota Landcruiser FJ40's here running around as daily drivers, not that hard to find but getting more expensive these days. Trucks etc. from the 70's can be found, 80's a lot, more modern stuff as well but generally not owned by the small fry transport guy. There's still Datsuns on the road here (which should tell you how long it's been).
Love the pic of the Jeepney
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Dude I was like..uh, engine's facing the wrong direction...and then I looked down at the tire and rim and breathed a sigh of relief. Nice work but how did you keep the gas from eating though the bottle? That was some strong bottle, heh you put an iv drip on your carb that's great. What's the deal with all the carburetion on Indonesian cars anyway? Can you get fuel injection as an option? There must be independent techs with their shops set up to do the conversion for a nice little fee huh?
I asked the guy because I was a bit "oh jebus christ what the hell" and he said he just put the gas in the bottle and insh'allah it wouldn't go kaboom. So I guess he did enough praying recently because he's still there, in one piece
Carburation on cars in Indonesia; two simple answers, I think. First, there is no such thing as an MOT or yearly inspection, which means that as long as a car moves, it's kept on the road. When it stops moving, it's jury-rigged to move once more. You can see 30 year old cars here that are still in use as daily drivers. There is no such thing as a junkyard because any car that falls over and really kicks the bucket is immediately stripped down (imagine a piranha devouring something) and the pieces used to get another car running again. There are of course a lot of more modern cars out and about and they all have fuel injection, but the older cars basically come with carburators. Leads up to second: carburators are cheaper than fuel injection and can be maintained much more easily by ... well... a yokel with a big effing hammer. Most mechanics here have no formal education, they learned the trade from their parents/uncles/etc. and that's how it's passed down here - so a lot of the time, there'll be a single guy out of 15 mechanics who happens to know how to deal with fuel injection issues, because the others never learned and have no time (or inclination) to learn.
Umm, yeah, bit of a rambly answer but hey... been in the car all day.
There's no shops that do conversions from carburated to fuel injected, but there's plenty that'll do a conversion to LPG or bio diesel. I'd convert to LPG in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact that there are only 5 LPG-enabled fuel stations in Jakarta, and none outside, which makes it somewhat useless because you'd have to switch back to petrol after a while anyway.
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Wasn't my ride guys, this came chugging in an hour or so after I got there, engine was hot, and the bottle was already busy starting to get melty in some spots. No idea how the guy figured it'd be a good idea to drive 50km(!) with this setup in highway traffic.
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After another round of carburator struggles, finally managed to score an elusive rebuild kit yesterday and spent the better part of today figuring out how to rebuild a carb. It works too! The big test will be tomorrow, 100 mile drive, see if it all works as intended.
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... this is how you "fix" a broken fuel pump and drive your ass to the local workshop.
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New manuals since my first post:
1989 Truck/Pathfinder
1990 Truck/Pathfinder
1989 Nissan Pulsar
1997 Nissan Hardbody
2000 Nissan Xterra
2007 Nissan Sentra
1995 Toyota 4runner
Partial manual sections listed below, ( below do not contain the whole manual only parts):
TD23, 25 & 27 Diesel manuals
EM section for the ZD20DD and KA24DE
SD22, SD23 , SD35 , SD33
As was said most newer manuals (Nissan & Infiniti) are available from the NICO site.
Here's a fun one; can you send me *all* WD21 manuals, as well as anything for the Z24 if you have it? Given that my ride is apparently a frankensteinian affair of various years mixed and matched together no single manual has all I need in it
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So today the second round of "time to breathe some more life into the machine" was done. Cost me some hideously scraped knuckles but that oughta teach me not to try to stick my hands into small spaces.
Anyway, with assistance from the local workshop guys, plenty got done... first we went in for the front brakes and tie-rod ends; the tie-rod ends were real bad, at least an inch of play in the wheel both ways, so those had to get done because I'd rather not shimmy my shiny metallic butt all over the highway (that and scary visions of wheels coming off, etc.). Turned out to be a real pain in the ass due to them being rusted up solid, so a lot of WD-40 and finagling later, that was set. Front discs and pads went on without a hitch, the old discs were cracked and chipped, so those went right into "huh, what can we do with these, oh here's an idea, lets make two clocks!" country.
Then it was time for the rear end; drums and shoe replacement. And none too soon since there were no shoes left. Or much drum. Or master cylinders. Or gaskets. Surprised to find it wasn't quite pissing out brake fluid but it sure explained where it's been going recently. Had to trundle down the road to the alignment shop with the new brakes and such on and let me tell you.. it can stop on a dime now. As I found out after rather over-enthousiastically applying the brakes and instead of coasting to a nice stop it went from "going" to "*squeal* stopped".
Once alignment was done, took it out for a spin on the highway. Like. Freaking. Butter. It's so smooth now. No wandering, no shimmy, just... schmoove. Then came the last bit of fun time, replacing the AC compressor. The old one's clutch assembly was pretty well wrecked, and the compressor itself wasn't compressing very much; as it turns out, the guy that took it out held it up and shook it, and it made all sorts of really nasty bad rattling noises. I'm using it as a door stop now >.>
New AC compressor went in without much issues, besides me getting my knuckles scraped. Also the inside of the car is like a freezer now. But hey, it works.
The only "big ticket" item on the agenda is replacing the clutch, but we ran out of time. Since I need to go a few places over the next few days it's gotten postponed to the weekend. After that's done all that remains is visual things. Over-fender bits, a rear light that's got a hole in the plastic, and things of that nature.
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Welp, new front discs and pads are on, got 4 new tires as well, the old ones looked fine on the outside but the inside was heavily cracked and ripped, apparently some sort of stress fracture like thing. And of course when the wheels were off, turns out I need me some new tierods as well; the amount of play in there is ... not entirely insignificant and explains the rather wobbly behaviour at anything over 80kph. So getting those tomorrow, putting them on sunday. I hope. And then monday new clutch, new AC compressor, and new rear brake drums/shoes/kitchen sink.
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Yes, I know you have the cool new/foreign mix-match, but I never would have thought it would still be carburated. I figured Z24i...
Yep, the Z24 exhaust is collected on the left side and piped straight back. (owned a D720 with Z24i for a decade).
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Yeah, the crazy thing is that they're all like that, it's literally like ... when Pathfinder production stopped for the US they just grabbed whatever was in the parts bin and slapped one together and sold it locally; and the Z24 engine's used in a lot of other Nissan vehicles so... makes sense.
There's still that joining of 2 pipes though that would indeed be right behind the gas pedal in a LHD car; kind of an odd place for it come to think of it...
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If you're replacing the clutch, why not upgrade to a stronger clutch like a Centerforce or Zoom. That's cool you've got a late model WD21 man, Sweet
What shocks are you going back with? As far as your wife is concerned, I say you count yourself lucky, I wish I could go and drop a grand into my truck without having a huge fight over it, not possible. I wanna see some pics of that truck. So did Indonesia also get the Exterra and R50 as well?Mainly because there's no need for it (yet), my Pathy is a 2WD, not a full-fledged big boy 4WD, and I don't really do any heavy towing or other odd things (well, okay, I peel out at traffic lights sometimes) so... easier this way. Getting any sort of after-market parts requires ordering it in the USA or Australia and having it shipped. That in itself isn't a big deal, but it starts getting interesting when it hits customs. Often there's the official taxes that need to be paid, and then there's the "unofficial" taxes that need to be paid. Makes things somewhat prohibitively expensive
Shocks are plain jane bog standard nissan factory jobs, I had ideas about having some stiffer ones but ran into the above problem. Turns out the aftermarket parts market (heh) here consists of bull bars and roof rack mounted lights, and that's about the end of it.
As far as the wife goes, well, it did take some back and forth about it, but we both like the car, for different reasons. I like it because it's reliable, my ride's had a few nasty breakdowns but it's never actually given up the ghost or left me stranded, so that counts. Second, it's big. Indonesian traffic being what it is, this is a distinct advantage. Then there's the thing that even though it is a heavy bastard, it's quite agile, handles well, and is generally "comfortable" to drive in the sense you can stick a pinky on the wheel and drive 200 miles like that.
SWMBO likes it because it's big; usually it's her and the munchkin in the back, and with the passenger seat all the way forward there's room for the munchkin to play around some, plenty room on the back seat for the munchkin to actually lay down with his pillow and blanket and snore all the way home, and the seats are comfortable.
Then there's the munchkin who basically likes it because I like it - these days whenever I get home he's waiting for it, hops in and sits on my lap steering it into the car port while I deal with the gas and the brakes.
There's pics in another thread of mine, I'll see about posting some new ones after I come back from the garage tomorrow
And as far as I know, no R50's but plenty xterra's - there's a bunch of them around.
Fan bearing going out - what can happen?
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From what I can see it's only the fan itself that can move, the shaft doesn't move at all, bolts are tight, still has a wobble...