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Got in and replaced all the brakes front and rear. In front 3 of 4 pads were cracked, in back just were getting a bit thin for me, now for the fun bleeding them back to firm and adjust the e/brake. I also installed the mile marker hubs that was just sitting around collecting dust, wow those are the easiest thing I've ever installed on my pathfinder, still need to align her though. Went out in the back acres and tested the hubs out, and wow what a difference something so simple made. Oh yeah I sanded the rear frame down and primered, and repainted it back to black, sanded down the brakes drums and primed,painted them Rancho red.

No I haven't yet had the time to pin point it, been told it's somewhat normal for these IFS and that it comes from the tension rod ends??? I can't say for sure though.

Kyle, I know what you mean, May 18th so many years ago when the family herd this big rumble noise, looking south from Ballou Jr high school, we were there playing flag football. And seeing Mt saint Helens blow her top, and then again five more times over the next few years. Was pretty exciting beings I was just a teenager at the time.

I love it! I want one I want one....

We live 15 miles away from mt Rainer as the crow flies. We are screwed IF it were ever to blows her top. I have grown up with that Mt. MY whole life, in Puyallup we were living over orting the most dangerous city to live in the path of a volcano

Btw Colorado, you don't need any special tools to get the torsion bar out or to adjust them. Suspend your front end so tires are the off ground and support truck frame with stands for safety. Remove the adjustment bolt, the dust boot, and c clip from frame end. All you need is a 3/4 wrench and socket, plus a couple screw drivers to pop the c clip out. Then loosen up the three bolts up front, one 3/4 and two 1/2 nuts. You can now remove torsion bar. You don't need to loosen up front if re-indexing the bar. Hope that helps you out. Make sure to lube every thing before you put back together will make it easier to take out and adjust if needed..

I used the same Rancho shocks you ordered, after I finished the lift last night, I hit a very badly potted road up here, the road is so bad that my 04 titan is uncomfortable to ride. But other than the IFS popping noise the pathfinder rode down the road very good, more comfortable and control than I thought it would have beings the truck is lighter and still needs the alignment done. So in my opinion the Rancho shocks work great.

All IFS have that popping sound at one point or another, it's very normal noise to hear, especially when hitting the pot holes. I just finished installation of the lift kit and when I tested it out, I got the popping noise, it's from the tension rods and frame IIRC. it is a tension point, hence the name.

Finally got the torsion bars in...yeah, now for the alignment...

You Can Do It! LOL all's good..

Yea that's it...what ahardbody said...

Well if you wanted to install there's a bunch of good information in here for installation of springs, just use the same information to install the spacers. That said the shocks look good, I see you have a limited slip rear also. That's always a good thing...

The Washington mountains look that good but the rest of cascades seem to be suffering this year. Heck mount Shasta looks in mid summer form, barely a snow pack and the lake is dry as ever. Can you say drought California....

In Washington state of course it's legal. How else would you explain the the 12th man fan's breaking world record not once but twice. It took twice as long as it should have...LOL

Okay on the spacers end of things, you won't need spring compressor, all you need to do is lift your rear with a jack and put on stands. Remove the lower shock mounts, disconnect the sway bar the brake line bolted up above axle, lower and let the axle hang loose. The springs will almost fall out. Slide your spacers on top and reverse the process, unless the spacers are not the type designed to be placed on top that is. If so disregard the aforementioned information. LOL On the bracing end, all I can hope is you will be in future. As a trucker we have a saying, there's no load that's worth more than our lives. Here, there's no project that's worth not being safe. Either in the garage or out wheeling. We all want to have fun and enjoy what the sport has to offer all of us. Like I said not the preachy kind, just safety first...

Travisg, these guy's know what to tell you. Precise1 has always given me solid information to work with. Be sure to soak up the front bolts really well with pb blaster or something like it, the 4 bolts to upj can break off pretty easily if been there a while. I had 7/8 break off, but planned on replacing my ball joints anyway. Good luck on your project and have fun.

P.s. I hope you had your truck supported by some measure other than the fork lift. Not to get preachy but I think we need to error on side of safety here and help educate those that just don't know how easy things can go wrong when we're under the truck. I think some kind of frame braces should always be used when jacking up the truck, unless on a full truck lift. I personally don't want to read in here of someone getting hurt because the truck fell off jack and on the person underneath. I have a buddy that is paralyzed from the chest down from the very thing happening. I just don't see any chocks or jackstands in the above photos. I apologize if you did use, we all have been there using what's available to us, no bad feelings. Just safety...

Just a thought/question? Did you put the coil spacers in or on top of coils, you might have just put them in place incorrectly? The spooky action you might have been feeling could of been due to the coils binding from the spacers being in the coils and not on top adding the lift you had hoped for. Like I said, just a thought...

What he said. Plus you will want to crank up the torsion bars a bit to get it back up and level. Shocks in the rear will need to be longer length, iirc there is a write-up in here for both the shocks and torsion bars. I used the full kit from 4x4parts and used the Rancho shocks, but you can get same kit with Bilstien shocks instead. I also added a steering stabilizer, but that is more a choice rather than a need.

Apx ten years ago, a two wheel drive pathfinder, it had broad front steerable ski's and a Trac drive on the rear, was amazing to watch it blow up the snow drifts with such easy effort. Sorry I didn't have a camera that day up in the snow. Elbe off-road area

I like the twin cooler idea. And gear options make sense, I still think we need more options for mounting a winch, heck we can't even get a front-end receiver hitch without it being a custom built. Might as well hv bumper built and have a receiver built in. Beings that the torsion bar suspension is identical to the Cadillac Eldorado kinda weirds me out, besides the fact the more you crank up the rougher the ride gets, a coil over may not give you any more height but I'm sure you would have a smoother ride, with a front axle drop bracket you could keep your geometry more in line with alignment needs. A side effect of getting more companies making parts from the tie rod to the engine and everything in between, would be pricing would have to go down for us spending the hard earned cash and then maybe we get more people building a pathfinder instead of the other guy's products..just in MY opinion. Lol

The big question for us pathfinder owners. What are your aftermarket parts wish list. Been some conversation in another forum, about getting some good parts available for us to use to make the pathfinder builds using a larger selection of parts. I myself would like to have some kind of front bumper attachment kit so we could use bumpers that fit other vehicles without having to fabricate the brackets/braces. Another option would be a tube style with winch plate for light weight and options for lighting. A coil over or struts to replace the torsion bar setups while retaining the IFS would be interesting A new center console design that's a direct bolt in and has good cup holders for the front and back seats. A better choice for bolt in headlight replacement. More up to date technology. Same with tail lights. Lets just get some thoughts going and maybe we can get a couple new parts for our breed of trucks

Kingman has the right idea of what im thinking about, not all of us have the time, resources or knowledge to install a sas, would be nice to have different options for the ifs. I have been fiddling around with the coil over idea, or something like a coil spring with some kind of multi link to keep the corners located but still have good articulation. Also we don't really need to have new bumpers designed for the pathfinder, just need to have mounting/conversion kits designed so we can use the current bumpers on the market.

Added some led marker lights and replaced broken fog lights on pathfinder, then we Took the titan in for recall item's. Came home and worked on the pathfinders stereo system that I can't get sound out from.