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Four door Pathfinders have a great weight to wheelbase ratio for snow in my experience. Mine would sink a bit, but once you hit the gas, it would get up on top of the snow and go.

Too high.

Never had an issue with that intake on mine. Depending on the suspension sag, 31s are probably max without body lift.

When you added another tow hook, and the bolt fell out. (threads corroded! )

When you're really glad you never lost your visor.

Needs an Allison. The 1000 is good, but I think that things huge? I can't remember how big that is compared to the Titan.

I don't want my TV to have internet. Just my .02

The thing about mud is it seems to promote rust. I really liked wearing the mud on my last pathy for up to months at a time, but it had pretty good rust already so I wasn't worried. Jeep gets washed that day or the next. Next Pathy will get the same treatment. I don't have a huge budget, and if washing after mud might keep rust at bay, then I'll do it. Now dirt wise, my Jeep hasn't been washed in about two years...

I used a hitch receiver rack leftover from my parents F250, or folded the seats.

$3.67 a gallon out in Orange County. Down in Huntington Beach off Beach Blvd about two weeks ago I saw 5.00 a gallon.

Could you get black plastic pipe and cut it to act as a sleeve? Cut the pipe, wrap it around the tire rack, and attach the mounts? Just a thought.

Forgot to mention I towed my Jeep with my Pathy once (About 3,000 pounds, give or take 300). Stopping with stock brakes took a while, same with acceleration, but I was able to maintain 50-55 on flat ground. Didn't encounter hills.

Sure you can do it. If you want to keep using your pathy for it, I echo what everyone said. Good hitch, transmission cooler, trans filter and bigger brakes, or slotted rotors could help. Try it, see if you like it. If you don't get a different rig.

Keeping good vibes on my end.

Lemme change to a 7. Bought from the dealer new in 1992 here in Southern California. Sold to a relative around 1995~. Used in Utah as a commuter, especially during the winter, ski racks and all. After about 2-3 years it came back to Socal. In about 2008 we started taking it wheeling summer, spring and winters.

8. Used to take it wheeling up in Big Bear every year during the winter. Snow was always up to the bumper.

When a 6x6 Unimog or Pinz locked in 6x6 with snow chains and tourists in the back tells you to "Let them rescue you" because "they're the only other vehicle I'll see all day". Little backstory: Went wheeling in at about a foot of snow in Big Bear with a friend who had a 99 Ford Ranger. We stopped on 3N16 to chain up on the trail (only one set of tracks on the trail, so we stopped in the road. As I was chaining up, he came through with his tour group. He immediately began acting as though I was the clueless weekend warrior, even after letting him know that I knew what I was doing. Of course he told me in front of his tourist group that he was the last rig for the day and I'd have to hike for miles to find help. I wheeled all the way to where he told me he had to turn around because he was bogging....and kept going. (The bumper doesn't make a good snowplow.)

X2 Fab or buy some good metal batt hold downs. I've had batteries hit the hood before.

Welcome from Sunny Southern California.

Could be! I don't have mine anymore or I would look. As far as I understand, the auto hubs must have one full rotation when changing direction before engaging again. Out wheeling once I heard all sorts of zipping/crunching noises from the front end. Spotter thought it might have been hubs. YEMV.

Check the hubs, might need servicing. I can't recall if they are vacuum actuated or not, if they are, that's something to check. I remember I told a friend that I wheel with, that I wanted to go manual hubs in my pathy to eliminate some of these issues and he couldn't figure out why....till he lost vacuum and couldn't get into 4 wheel on a black diamond trail.

My Pathy was always the "armchair wheeler", being an SE almost totally loaded with features. I liked the carpet with rubber floor mats while wheelin'. That being said, I think the back would really be nice lined, and it sure would be easy to clean the floors. My only question would be, how noisy will it be? About the same? Worse?

Like anything else, if you beat it hard enough, it will break. I never had issues till I tried to take on trails that required heavy modifications.

http://www.nissanpathfinders.net/forum/topic/29263-what-did-you-do-to-your-pathfinder-today/page-163

Don't we have one of this in The Garage section? Cool none the less!