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2WDTRAILRIDE

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  1. remember this is for better geometry and steering not more strength because the ball studs are no stronger. So the cure is to build a custom 2wd style steer kit and it can work on both trucks.
  2. Hey guys, I don't think I ever posted hear but I am Jimmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8T0BkkwaEs damn thing is still going but rattles like pop cans in a trash can. It may be for sale as a parts truck. everything is solid as a rock except for the bod. Been jumped, been stuck, been rolled, frame fabed back together you name it. Put this drive train and suspension on a fresh truck and go another round in the rodeo! But anyway I just want to know how the 2wd center bar holds up to bouncing sideways off a creak bank on the heavier 4x4? Anyone bend the bar? I have bent a few but never broke one. But hears a possibility, I never made the steering kit I was going too. So it's up to you and tell me how it works. The 1999-04 2WD frontier 4cl truck has a little larger bar and inner rod end with exact same steering geometry. Ball studs are a little larger by about 10% or so the center link is 26MM vrs 23MM on the Hardbody. You may possibly need to swap to a 99 4x4 idler arm and pitman arm do to ball taper sizes. The biggest possible problem may be the spline count on the pitman arm / gear box vrs older models. Check and see if Exterra rod end tapers are the same as the 2wd Frontier 4cyl model. Again this is not the desert runner v6 model but the 4cl 2wd model. If so a hone may used or convert the pitman steer bar to a Uniball conversion BY WELDING A GUSSET TO THE PITMAN and a bung and rod end to the center bar. I WAS PLANNING A center link design very similar to the Toyota TC for the 2wd Hardbody, but don't think it will sell. I don't like there NISSAN steer bar setup though It's really the same thing causing short rod ends. I don't think they checked into the 2wd steering setup on the Nissan. They are not quite as good at the Nissan as they are the Toyota! The fact is they could have used the same design on the 2wd Hardbody as the 2wd race Toyota kit changing the arm design and using the same spindles. THE TRUCKS ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL UP FRONT!. Back to the stock style steer setup You should still use the 4x4 outer rod end with a custom DOM sleeve to connect the 2wd inner to the 4x4 outer. This should work better than the Cal steering kit especially if going to do a long travel kit. The tie rods are simply to short and pull the toe in at droop on all 4x4 NISSAN STEERING -04 this may even cause additional stress to CVs and other parts. So if anyone trying this let me know how the pitman arm works out. NISSAN PLAYS PART NUMBER CHANGE GAMES. sometimes it is and some times it's pure bull@!*%.
  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clov1dJRgNw&feature=channel Replating and gusseting a rusted nissan frame for constant trail abuse, and can still get it of the ground! this nissan now @ 360,000miles and 9 years of trails and other hard abuse
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