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Good advice, thanks. I will deff. do that. And when I get the new ECU it's going in the glove box too before I climb back in.

Yea, JY here has a few, around 60 bucks. Me and the wife taking our Pathy for a swim on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The death of my ECM, lol. I need some pontoons!!!

^^^^^^I approve this message. Thanks to my last swimming incident, I was glad I kept my previous car and happier still that it only cost $7 to swap tags at the DMV. They know me by name now. To the OP, it depends on what you do to your Pathy. Out of those choices I would go for the winch, because I am an idiot and will put one to good use, not just a pretty bumper accessory. If you don't get stuck EVER, then lift kit. Hard to say, we all drive different.

I wish. Update today, the ECM is shot. It isn't powering up at all so I will have to replace it next week. When I do I am going to take all the electronics off the floor. I'm going to give it a good once over under the hood too with a couple of bottles of silicone. Maybe I should take the doors off and join a Jeep Club. I'll tell them it's a rare Japanese version, only one made in 88.

I noticed I burn less oil when I went to 5w30. Running from 85 degree Fla to 0 degree Michigan and back, it ran smooth and burned no oil. When I ran 10w30 it was a quart or more a week.

I agree. That's why I put in search (washing machine) and get ads for a transmission from a 86 Cadillac mounting bracket.

After making the inner fender snorkel I had to try it out, lol. And I have no way of knowing the weak points unless it is put through the paces. Like Gandy (RIP) on Buck Wild said.,"You don't know if it is any good unless you put it in the @!*%"., lol . Any way. Not a big deal. I know now that I have to relocate that. My friend who is looking it over now is a retired AF airplane mech. specializing in electronics. From boredom he is tearing through every scrap of wire on that truck. His advice to me was to get a Jeep Wrangler, put it on 44's, snorkel and double winches, the way I drive, haha. Probably good advice. I don't tip toe in the woods. Anyway, he is looking at making some 2 part silicone casings for all the connections and relays under the hood, even though after he inspected them this morning he was impressed with the parts Nissan went with. Most everything was factory water tight. After running the diagnostics he could see the problem was coming from the ECM. It was still holding water. As I was leaving for work he was taking the seat out. Going to see what it's looking like in the morning.

Left it at a friends house to dry out the ECM. Pathfinder can swim, ECM cannot. Next project, relocate it.

Trying out my inner fender snorkel this weekend, it worked successfully, but my ECM is soaked. It caused the relays to click a song like crazy, fuel pump going on off on off. I pulled it to a friends house near the forest where I was at. He called this morning and told me the ECM is full of water, he is drying it out today while I am here at work. Should I replace the unit? Everything else under the hood held pretty water tight, but the ECM needs to be moved to higher ground for sure.

It would be nice if the pics were still on here. Can anyone update these old Threads with some pics for us that wasn't here a few years ago please?

There should be a thread started called "Guess That Noise" I'm sure there is a lot of questions about odd sounds out there. For a week I have been shaking the exhaust trying to pin down the location of a vibration noise in the rear when I am shifting gears....ehhh that's for another thread

Lol. When I got stuck last weekend I brought her a chair to sit in while I dug it out. She threw the chair in the mud and started shoveling,lol. But it was a PITA. I want to prevent that from happening in the future. Not the stuck part, that's going to happen, the unprepared part.

Looks cool though. Before I got into off-roading I remember seeing trucks with dual shocks and taking pics of it. It was impressive for some reason.

I'm jealous. I want that Rancho! Lol. Maybe on my next Pathy. My current one is going to be my Lawn Maint. Truck in a couple of months. I was going to rebuild the whole thing but there is so much rust damage underneath the body, it just can't be repaired. Pathies are about 1200 around here all day long and I really want a 4 door. My back seat is all but useless, it's too hard for even my 6 year old to climb back there. I'll get another this summer.

Nothing wrong with being cheap. Right now the 12,000 pounders are 300. I do keep my eye on them. Harbor Freight is 3 min from my house, I'm in there all too often. If they go down to 200 or less I'm gonna pounce on it, then go home to face my wife's wrath.

Thanks for the tip!! And yes, I am going to go this route. You did EXACTLY what I had envisioned. Awesome, thanks.

After the first trip into the woods me and the wife were driving home and pulled up along side a new Pathfinder. I pointed it out to her. She said "It doesn't have any bumpers" I said yea, that's not made to take in the woods. Hell, I don't even think it was made to get dirty. Sad. Ever since then I kept thinking of her no bumper statement. I am trying to get her into off roading by letting her drive through the woods on the weekends, her confidence builder is me assuring her she can't break it. The bumpers and tree's get well acquainted. Hence her bumper statement. I find myself now looking at the new ones thinking how would I add tube bumpers, which I am a fan of. Cut into the ground effects, etc..Nightmare.No thanks.

I think that's it. Now that you mention it I was looking in the right rear fender well one day and heard a whistling noise coming from the tank. And everytime I fill up I open the cap and the pressure is like a hurricane whipping across the atlantic ocean, ripping everything to shreds when it hits land fall!!! Ok maybe not that bad, but close.

Yes Precise, those are awesome pics, and that's exactly what I am trying to do.That inner fender area looks perfect for this project This setup is EXACTLY what I want to do. Thanks for sharing this!

Last night I attempted to take the fender off. After the brush guard, turn signal, still I have to take off the bumper to get those last 2, the wife was like "not tonight buddy, drop the wrench and get in here, it's V day" lol. I get home about 10:30pm every night. She is used to me going straight to the garage until 2 or 3 am. So the fender dismantle had to wait. But I did get good view inside of the fender when the signal was out. It was clean and dry in there. So I took my heat gun and bent an old leaf blower tube to go into an access hole and fed it in the empty area. I then used a Rigid wet/dry vac dust filter to plug one of the other air holes that was next to it. It seemed to me like this fender was made for a hidden snorkel. Everything is there and in place. It just needs to be utilized. So I plugged the fender gap with a shop rag for now, foamed the pipe and masking taped the other air cleaner pipe. At this point I was on my second bottle of wine and couldn't find my gorilla or duct tape, lol I drove it to work and ran smooth so it is getting plenty of air from in there. I should get off work at 1 today so I am going to dip in the woods behind this Business Center and test it out. Any puddle makes my truck choke so I will see today how well the inner fender area works. If all goes well then I will start a permanent install, minus the leaf blower tube, lol.

I'm still looking for it, thanks.

I opened my door to talk to the wife one time, I was in the mud and she was asking about a tree or something. My foot slipped off the clutch. 5 pounds of mud dripping down the panel lol. Not sure I would ever take a door off.

I like this one Here is an inner fender snorkel compartment they make for Heeps

I was thinking the same about the windshield area. I will pull the fender off tonight and take a peek in there. Mainly I want to see if there is any tell tell signs of if there has been any muddy water in there.

I always wondered, why do they take their doors off to go offroading? I get enough mud inside of my truck, I would hate to even think about a trip in the woods with my doors off. Rigid wet-vac would retire.